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The Guardian : ‘The birds will fly away’: can Albania’s flamingo revolution keep its wetlands free from Trumps …
Suggesting legal protections are being circumvented or weakened
The article notes the project lacks planning permission and environmental impact assessment, and cites civil society demands to repeal a 2024 law change. This framing implies erosion of rule-based environmental governance, despite official claims of lawful process.
“The project has not received planning permission or an environmental impact assessment, and the Albanian government... said the continuing works were for technical surveys and environmental measurements rather than construction.”
The Guardian : Brazil’s Atlantic forest records lowest deforestation in 40 years
Framing the new environmental law as illegitimate and a 'distortion' of proper governance
[loaded_language] and [omission] contribute: the term 'devastation bill' is repeated in quotes, and critiques from one NGO dominate, while no legal or governmental justification is presented.
“the recent approval of the so-called “devastation bill” in Brazil’s congress that drastically weakens environmental law”