hello and welcome to focus on europe i'm a lot about biloela thanks for joining us today for millions of europeans if the highlight of the winter season skiing in the alps the beautiful mountains and pristine nature attract winter sports fans from around the world. ski holidays have become a $1000000000.00 industry that many in the region rely on. but there is also a flip side to this winter wonderland on the snow covered peaks ski resorts leave a large carbon footprint during high season the industry operates at full speed ski lifts run for hours as crowds queue to hit the slopes snow machines are needed to combat the effects of global warming and there is more of the same to come in austria's let's talk about a project is underway to extend the ski area to neighboring pitstop to create europe's largest glacier ski resort but the number of critics against the development is growing. it's tough going up here on pit stop glacier but the air increasingly thin. right a flute and his friends are trekking up to a mountain ridge to protest against plans to turn parts of one of the last pris

hello and welcome to focus on europe with me lara biloela a single case could bring the pork industry to a grinding halt and cost billions of euros in losses health authorities in eastern europe are trying to fight the spread of african swine fever and are taking drastic measures to do so sometimes even against the will of the farmers if just one animal is infected the whole herd will be culled. well the virus has yet to reach germany but farmers here are very nervous and that's because infected animals have been confirmed just a few kilometers away from the border in poland and so the hunt for wild boars in that region is on a warning for our viewers this report contains graphic images of dead animals. court pluck and bag near is hunting wild boar in germany's east. these hunters in the door some 80 kilometers from the polish border are calling the boar they're seen as a danger potential carriers of african swine fever which is harmless to humans but an existential threat to pig farming. that even these hunters know that alone probably won't be enough to prevent the spread of the dis

hello and welcome to focus on europe i'm a lot about biloela thanks for joining us today for millions of europeans if the highlight of the winter season in the alps the beautiful mountains and pristine nature attract winter sports fans from around the world. state holidays have become a $1000000000.00 industry that may.