Environment activists continue their vigil at Šumava National Park

Environment activists continue their vigil at Šumava National Park for fear of illegal logging. The Czech branch of the NGO Friends of the Earth has been camping out in a protected part of the nature reserve since Friday ready to physically prevent the logging of bark-beetle infested trees. Activists say that the park management had failed to obtain an exemption required to cut in the most protected parts of the park, but that it had some 3,000 trees marked in the area for logging. Loggers reportedly arrived in the vicinity on Tuesday but headed for a different part of the forest.