In Donetsk region, eco-inspectors in the Kramatorsk and Pokrovsk districts calculated about 3 million hryvnias in damages for felling 62 trees.
Currently, fires in the region, as a result of hostilities, have destroyed more than 15 thousand hectares of forest, the State Environmental Inspection in the Donetsk region reports on Facebook.
The message emphasized that Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine since February 24 has already caused and continues to cause enormous damage to people, infrastructure and the environment. However, eco-inspectors continue to work actively, both independently and with law enforcement agencies, regarding the recording of violations of environmental legislation and the subsequent calculation of damage caused to the environment.
"Today, the forest is a battlefield, a shelter for our soldiers and is an important natural, valuable resource of the environment, – the press service emphasized. – The inspection will always detect and prevent uncontrolled deforestation. More than one fact of illegal deforestation will not remain without the calculation of environmental damages."
Eco-inspectors urged every Ukrainian not to destroy forests. After all, the environment will suffer not only from the aggressor's army, but also from citizens who are indifferent to nature.
Earlier, EcoPolitic wrote, that in the Lviv region, eco-inspectors caught violators red-handed, who illegally cut down 621 trees.
As EcoPolitis previously reported, at least 15,000 m3 of wood was illegally cut down in Ukraine in 9 months of 2022, which caused losses of over 125 million hryvnias. The head of the State Agency of Forest Resources of Ukraine, Yurii Bolokhovets, talked about a number of things he had in common with law enforcement officers measures to reduce the volume of illegal logging.
