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       A Forest Worth Fighting For                             Growing Back Beirut



       Tucked away on the border of Poland and Belarus         Eco Architect Adid Dada and the ‘guerrilla foresters’
       lies  an  old-growth  forest  with  a  unique  diversity  of   are  trying  the  bring  green  spaces  back  to  Beirut
       fungi and invertebrates and a cradle of the rebirth     through  their  project  Beirut’s  Riverless  Forest.  By
       of  European  bison.  Under  the  warrant  of  fighting   planting  minature  urban  forests  using  a  method
       a  bark  beetle  infestation,  Poland’s  Minster  of  the   invented by a Japanese botanist they’re helping to
       Environment ordered a three-fold increase of logging    build a better future.
       this protected forest. Concerned citizens from Poland
       and Europe have flocked to an activist camp set up
       in  the  heart  of  the  forest.  While  activists  protected
       the forest on the ground, a group of environmental
       NGOs took it to the courts.




       Genre:   WaterBear Impact Productions                   Genre:   WaterBear Impact Productions
       Format:   1 x 6’ / HD / 2021                            Format:   1 x 6’ / HD / 2021
       Credits:  WaterBear Network                             Credits:   WaterBear Network






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