Ecologists from the Kyiv Ecological and Cultural Center have accused foresters from the Berdychiv Forestry Enterprise in Zhytomyr region of destroying the population of the rare Red Book plant, the prickly pear plum.
The plant disappeared due to recent clear-cutting, the KECC reported on Facebook.
It is noted that biologists discovered the center of prickly pear in 2015 in the 43rd quarter of the Berychiv forestry. In November 2023, biologists examined the site and found that the plant had disappeared after clear-cutting.
"Destruction of populations of rare red-listed plants during felling by foresters is a very massive phenomenon in Ukraine today. "Forest orchids, snowdrops, dream grass, diphasiastrum, and wolfberry die from felling," ecologists emphasized.
As you know, thorny plantain, or annual plantain, is a perennial, evergreen, shade-tolerant spore plant that resembles a Christmas tree or holly. This plantain is a medicinal plant that grows in coniferous and mixed forests.
Earlier, EcoPolitic wrote, that eco-activists from the "Ukrainian Nature Protection Group" accused the state enterprise "Forests of Ukraine" of continuing the illegal destruction of ancient forests during sanitary logging. They also accused the state of ignoring such felling and the need to preserve ancient forests
As EcoPolitic previously reported, jeepers have set up racing tracks in the "Kozynskiy" and "Vasylkivski Karpaty" nature reserves in the Kyiv region, where they have already destroyed the entire population of the Red Book plant of the crescent moonflower.
