Natural environment

The Global Environment Facility (GEF) Council has approved a grant of USD 3.2 million to help improve the state of forests in Serbia.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) made the announcement on Thursday, Tanjug reported.

Starting Friday, the Lovers' Bridge in the center of Bulgaria's capital Sofia is hosting an exhibition of posters showing images of the Netherlands and its bikes.

Two major steps are expected from Turkey's energy administration this year: A well-designed coal policy and a detailed renewable energy scheme. Energy officials have repeatedly voiced signals about these policies by emphasizing the importance of creating a robust approach based on more local and renewable resources.

Almost half of all natural UNESCO World Heritage Sites, including the Great Barrier Reef and Machu Picchu, are threatened by industrial activities such as mining, oil exploration and illegal logging, conservation group WWF warned on April 6. 

Industrial activities such as mining, dredging or drilling for oil threaten almost half of the world’s natural World Heritage sites, the WWF conservation group said on Wednesday.

The climate in Turkey will be hotter, drier and less predictable in terms of precipitation in the future, according to a report that was recently presented to the country's parliament.

The biodiversity in Turkey is at risk, according to an analysis based on a report released by the Yale University that ranked countries' environmental performance.

Beijing is to raise the thresholds for issuing its highest air pollution warnings, the state news agency Xinhua reported on Feb. 22, two months after acrid smog triggered the city's first ever "red alerts." 

Turkish police have intervened using water cannon and tear gas against locals and environmentalists in the northeastern province of Artvin’s Cerattepe are after protesters sought to march to the site of a controversial mining project

International Animal Rescue, a charity in Keptang, Indonesia, has built a forest school baby orangutans so as to learn how to survive in the wild.

Every day charity workers take them on wheelbarrow to the school where the youngsters can climb and swing from the ropes and barrels.