Piraeus Forestry Authority

The Environment Ministry has ordered the closure of the Greek Wildlife Hospital on the Saronic island of Aegina, known by its acronym EKPAZ, following a series of inspections that established that the conditions in which the facility kept animals were "tragic." 

A committee of the Attica Decentralized Administration - a state body not related to the Attica Regional Authority - will on Thursday conduct an inspection of part of the plot of the old Athens airport at Elliniko to establish whether a forest exists there.

The 37,000 square meters characterized as "forest" by the Piraeus Forestry Authority may turn out to be the Achilles' heel of the 8-billion-euro investment in the development of the old Athens airport plot at Elliniko, according to the chairman of contractor Lamda Development, Anastasios Giannitsis.