Digest — latest ecology news
Among the polluters of nature, an entrepreneur from Kyiv who burned tyres instead of recycling them "stood out"
Meanwhile, environmental prosecutors are returning the lands of national parks and reserves to the state piece by piece
A scheme has been uncovered in the Volyn region through which pine trees were illegally felled, resulting in losses of over 15 million hryvnias
Most of the crimes uncovered involve foresters implicated in illegal logging, the embezzlement of public funds and negligence, which is causing damage to the forests
Law enforcement officials have stated that they have identified 40 companies in breach of the law, which have caused over 60 million UAH worth of damage to Ukraine’s natural environment
At the same time, the Public Prosecutor’s Office continues to return land containing valuable natural ecosystems to state ownership
Forest belts continue to be systematically destroyed in Ukraine – one group was caught in the Dnipropetrovsk region
A jeep driver from Zakarpattia and the head of a polluting company in Dnipro are to stand trial
Thousands of trees have been found to have been illegally felled in the north of the country
We are talking about hundreds of millions in losses and the destruction of ecosystems
Prosecutors have identified a further seven individuals involved in the illegal extraction of granite, resulting in losses of over 1.5 billion hryvnias
The man avoided a prison sentence thanks to a plea bargain and favourable character references