Geneva - Organisers of next month's Olympic Games in Athens have destroyed vital wildlife habitats and cleared the way for future degradation of nearby mountains, said the World Wide Fund for Nature on Friday.
"Without positive action by the International Olympic Committee and the promoters of candidate sites, the reputation of the games as a centre of excellence will be tarnished by a trail of environmental degradation," said the organisation said in its 20-page report prepared by WWF Greece.
The ecological pressure group's environmental assessment gave Athens high marks for improving the mass-transit network and removing large advertising signs, but said in most other areas it had fallen far short of Olympic ideals.
'Serious and irreversible damage'
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