Trees worth more than 4 million hryvnias destroyed in a nature reserve in the Ivano-Frankivsk region

Trees worth more than 4 million hryvnias destroyed in a nature reserve in the Ivano-Frankivsk region shutterstock
Katerina Belousova

During the week, eco-inspectors calculated 6.7 million hryvnias in damages

In Ivano-Frankivsk region, environmental inspectors found 36 trees cut down in the Black Forest general zoological reserve in Kalush district, causing damage worth more than UAH 4.1 million.

This was the largest environmental violation of the week of February 9-15, the State Environmental Inspectorate reports on Facebook.

It is noted that the top three regions also included anti-leaders:

  • Zhytomyr region, where 24 poplar trees were destroyed in Vyshevytskyi community, which caused 859 thousand hryvnias in damages;
  • Zaporizhzhia region, where trees were damaged to the point of stopping growth on the island of Khortytsi in the national geological reserve of national importance "Dnieper Rapids". This caused losses of more than 967 thousand hryvnias.

The materials of all three cases were handed over to local police departments.

The message said that the eco-inspectors spent a week 186 control measures and made 217 protocols on administrative offenses. The total amount of fines imposed reached 56 thousand hryvnias.

The press service added that during this time also:

  • eco-inspectors calculated sh,sh million hryvnias in damages for violating the requirements of environmental protection legislation and presented claims and lawsuits for 412 thousand hryvnias;
  • charged to the State budget 51 thousand hryvnias;
  • environmental violators voluntarily and forcibly compensated 1.9 million hryvnias of damages.

Earlier, EcoPolitic wrote, that in the Carpathians, near the resort of Bukovel, in the village of Tatariv on the banks of the Prut River, built six "boxes" houses. For this construction, trees were cut down on the coast and the shore was dug up with the help of an excavator.

As EcoPolitic previously reported, in Odesa region, four black loggers face criminal liability for illegal felling of trees in the field protection forest strip for 180,000 hryvnias and along the banks of the Danube river for 40,000 hryvnias.

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