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Digest of eco-crimes of the week: large-scale logging, illegal mining, and pollution
Digest of eco-crimes of the week: large-scale logging, illegal mining, and pollution

The most damaging crime is illegal use of subsoil resources

The battle for the Carpathians: Ministry of Economy stalls, MPs appeal to minister
The battle for the Carpathians: Ministry of Economy stalls, MPs appeal to minister

Parliamentarians request that all Carpathian highlands be granted protected status

Resort instead of forest: 176 hectares of communal forest in Lviv region to be cleared for logging
Resort instead of forest: 176 hectares of communal forest in Lviv region to be cleared for logging

Neither the construction project nor the methodology for calculating the losses from tree felling were presented to the deputies

Will the Runa mountain pasture be built over? Activists receive formal responses from the Ministry
Will the Runa mountain pasture be built over? Activists receive formal responses from the Ministry

The institution does not want to take responsibility for creating the reserve, shifting this responsibility to the Transcarpathian Regional State Administration

In Volyn, a businessman who does not own any cows received forest land for grazing. The forest is no longer there
In Volyn, a businessman who does not own any cows received forest land for grazing. The forest is no longer there

According to calculations by the State Environmental Inspection, losses to the state amounted to over UAH 10 million

What are Ukraine's main environmental problems?
What are Ukraine's main environmental problems?

The existing problems have been significantly exacerbated by the full-scale war

The formality of forest classification carries the risk of their destruction – WWF on the order of the Ministry of Economy
The formality of forest classification carries the risk of their destruction – WWF on the order of the Ministry of Economy

The document prioritizes economic needs over the preservation of Ukrainian forests

Digest of eco-crimes of the week: billions worth of sand, protected land, and tree destruction
Digest of eco-crimes of the week: billions worth of sand, protected land, and tree destruction

Among the violations are illegal construction in a national park and on forest fund lands

Legalization of forest destruction: activists outraged by draft Cabinet resolution
Legalization of forest destruction: activists outraged by draft Cabinet resolution

Environmental activists see the document as a concession for development in the Carpathians and commercial logging

Not only without water, but also without trees: forest destroyed near quarry in Zhytomyr region
Not only without water, but also without trees: forest destroyed near quarry in Zhytomyr region

Hundreds of pine trees with a diameter of up to one meter were cut down, passing them off on paper as "maple shrubs

Officials from "Forests of Ukraine" have once again been exposed for complicity in illegal tree felling
Officials from "Forests of Ukraine" have once again been exposed for complicity in illegal tree felling

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