Pomorskie

29th October 2010

Pre-emptive action taken by investors at Gdynia’s airport has avoided a potential clash with environmentalists over a rare orchid growing on the site. Biologists from the University of Gdansk this week removed the plants, the broad-leaved helleborine, from the former military zone where the plants had been thriving, to a nearby wooded botanical garden.

“There will be a taxiway here, the terminal will stand close by,” Janusz Stateczny, director of Kosakowo Airport, told reporters. “We have to prepare the ground here, and during a period when it’s possible to move the plants.

“This is an example of exceptional care and ecological awareness,” explained Dr Katarzyna Zolkos of Gda ...