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Forestry workers themselves organize criminal schemes, often involving private entrepreneurs to sell illegal raw materials

The region's environmental programs actually finance housing and communal services and public amenities, rather than nature conservation

Outdated fines may exceed the profits from illegally felled trees

Members of a gardening cooperative illegally built 33 houses and even legalized them using fake documents

Wetlands and peatlands absorb more carbon dioxide than forests

Communities in the region use eco-tax revenue to resolve their municipal issues

The Polissya Forestry Office blames its predecessors and calls the modern structure a gazebo

Among the criminals are MPs, officials, entrepreneurs and simply those who are "not indifferent" to making money from destroying nature

The DSP "Kharkivlisozahist" is also involved in the crime, having carried out a fictitious survey of the sanitary condition of the trees

Sludge flowed out of the plant for hours, poisoning fields and flooding roads

Activists from LIiS identified 33 cases of this crime, but law enforcement agencies opened only seven cases

Environmentalists seek to hold Ministry officials accountable for tree felling in national parks