The hurricane that swept through Ukraine on July 29 damaged more than 1,000 hectares of forests.
Ripe ones suffered the most damage. planting pine, ash, oak, hornbeam, reports the state enterprise "Forests of Ukraine" on Facebook.
It is noted that foresters are conducting a full survey of the damaged areas of the forest.
The message stressed that the greatest damage was received by forests in the Kiev and Zhytomyr regions, where the hurricane damaged 500 hectares.
The press service stressed that damage was also found in:
- Northern Forest Office (Sumshchyna, Chernigovshchyna) – 200 hectares;
- Central forest office (Vinnitsa region, Cherkasy region) – 200 hectares;
- Carpathian forest office (Ivano-Frankivsk region, Lviv region, Transcarpathia) – 150 hectares;
- Polessky forestry office (Rivne region, Volyn) – 100 hectares;
- Podolsky forest office (Khmelnitsk, Bukovina, Ternopil region) – 30 hectares.
Earlier, EcoPolitic wrote, that in the Carpathians 426 thousand hectares of spruce European, a third of which falls on the Transcarpathian region. One of the reasons for this catastrophe was an increase in average temperatures by 1-2°C.
As previously reported by EcoPolicy,
