Corruption — latest ecology news
![The head of a national park in Bukovina got burned for a bribe of $65,000](https://ecopolitic.com.ua/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/dbr-zatrimalo-kerivnika-prirodnogo-parku-na-bukovini-pid-chas-otrimannya-65-tis.-dolariv-habarya-3-450x395-4fd.jpeg)
Now he faces 8 to 12 years in prison with confiscation of property
![Almost 10% of all forests in the Carpathians have been cut down in 20 years – media](https://ecopolitic.com.ua/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/shutterstock_341954180-scaled-e1728893568534-500x250.jpg)
This is the area of Kyiv, Kharkiv, Odesa, Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk and Ternopil combined
![The head of the quarry was put on trial for illegal extraction of sand worth UAH 21 million](https://ecopolitic.com.ua/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/shutterstock_779602075-500x333.jpg)
He will not be able to get away with a fine
![Large-scale shadow timber sales schemes operate in national parks, – former employees](https://ecopolitic.com.ua/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/nacparki-e1728049794386-500x250.jpg)
It turned out that only a quarter of institutions publicly report on the volume of felling and the value of sold trees
![Foresters cut down old forests without any documents – UPG](https://ecopolitic.com.ua/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/shutterstock_1891462456-500x334.jpg)
Activists blame the management of the State Enterprise "Forests of Ukraine" for tolerating such illegal actions
![The Kharkiv community is protesting against cutting down their forest for a quarry. Video](https://ecopolitic.com.ua/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/rubka-lisu-harkiv-e1727430742576-500x250.jpg)
Activists claim that entrepreneurs have misled local residents
![Illegal logging for almost 3 million hryvnias: prosecutors told about new cases in a week](https://ecopolitic.com.ua/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/shutterstock_1659051325-500x215.jpg)
Forest industry officials are suspected of official negligence and forgery of documents
![Environmental activists see a corruption scheme in the destruction of the Markhaliv forest](https://ecopolitic.com.ua/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/zrubani-dereva-marhalivskogo-lisu--e1727163272593-500x250.jpg)
They claim that officials of one of the ministries and the directorate of the military memorial cemetery are involved in it
![Environmental damages worth UAH 250 million: forestry officials in Prykarpattia will be tried](https://ecopolitic.com.ua/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/korupcioner-e1727093660241-500x250.jpg)
They can receive up to 7 years of imprisonment and fines of up to 1,000 tax-free minimum incomes of citizens
![Officials from Lviv region to be tried for illegal logging worth UAH 64 million](https://ecopolitic.com.ua/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/4na-lvivshhini-dbr-vikrilo-posadovciv-yaki-nezakonno-virubali-derev-na-ponad-64-mln.-grn-2-e1726818582719-500x273.jpeg)
They face up to 10 years behind bars
![Sumy mayor and city council official to be tried for extortion of UAH 2 million bribe](https://ecopolitic.com.ua/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/korupciya-sumi-groshi-e1726738194546-500x250.webp)
They "paid tribute" to the local garbage company
![Activists in court defend one of Kyiv's lakes from construction](https://ecopolitic.com.ua/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/shutterstock_704923213-500x334.jpg)
They accused two deputies of the Kyiv City Council and the mayor personally of opposing the bequest of the reservoir