Black loggers who destroyed more than 600 trees were caught in the Lviv region. Photo

Black loggers who destroyed more than 600 trees were caught in the Lviv region. Photo shutterstock
Katerina Belousova

The case materials have been sent to law enforcement agencies

In the Lviv region, eco-inspectors caught violators, who illegally cut down 621 trees of various species, namely pines, aspen and alder.

Damages to the environment reached more than 900 thousand hryvnias, reports State Inspection on Telegram.

SEI specialists found a truck and a group of people with chainsaws at the site of the felling on the territory of the Velikopol Starostyn district of the Ivano-Frankivsk settlement council outside the population centers.

An investigative team also arrived at the scene to establish the circumstances and persons, as well as to take appropriate measures.

"The materials of the case have been sent to the Yavorivsky RVP GUNP in the Lviv region," the message said.

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Earlier, EcoPolitic wrote, that in Lviv, on the territory of the hospital in the Sykhiv district, 167 trees were illegal cut down, which caused damage to the environment in the amount of 209.4 thousand hryvnias.

As EcoPolitic reported before, in Lviv region the SSU exposed several officials from the forest farm, who earned on the appropriation and sale of high-grade wood in wartime conditions. Violators entered unreliable data in the reporting documentation regarding the number of fellings and the grade of wood.

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