The Kyiv City State Administration's Department of Environmental Protection plans to cancel the decision to ban clear-cutting in Kyiv region, said Volodymyr Boreyko, director of the Kyiv Ecological and Cultural Center.
This was reported by the public organization KECC on its Facebook page.
According to Volodymyr Boreiko, on September 16, the Department of Environmental Protection of the Kyiv City State Administration will hold a meeting to make certain amendments to the decision of the Kyiv City Council of July 11, 2018, which banned tree felling in Kyiv forests.
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And now, 7 years later, at the initiative of developers, the Department of Environmental Protection wants to start preparing to cancel the decision to ban clear-cutting.
The CECC stated that massive deforestation in the forest park zones of Kyiv and the region lasted from 2000 to 2018, with the largest amount of logging in Sviatoshynskyi and Darnytskyi districts of Kyiv, and massive logging in Koncha Zaspa.
About 2,300 hectares of forest were cut down in the forests near Kyiv, causing losses to the state of UAH 1.5 million annually. Following protests from local residents, in 2018, Kyiv City Council member Olesia Pynzenyk drafted a bill to ban clear-cutting in park areas. Her decision was later supported by the KCSA deputies.
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Also in July, it became known that massive illegal logging was taking place on the territory of the Plai forestry of the Brusturyansky superforestry in Zakarpattia. Environmentalists classify these logging operations as illegal, as no logging tickets have been issued for these areas since the establishment of the State Enterprise "Forests of Ukraine".
