Forests — latest ecology news
Among the violations are illegal construction in a national park and on forest fund lands
Environmental activists see the document as a concession for development in the Carpathians and commercial logging
Hundreds of pine trees with a diameter of up to one meter were cut down, passing them off on paper as "maple shrubs
Forestry workers themselves organize criminal schemes, often involving private entrepreneurs to sell illegal raw materials
Outdated fines may exceed the profits from illegally felled trees
It will be impossible to change the data in the register without justification
Fires at a landfill and illegal emissions from a heating plant have polluted the air, causing tens of millions of hryvnia in damage
The Polissya Forestry Office blames its predecessors and calls the modern structure a gazebo
The anti-corruption agency found a whole range of opportunities for abuse in the document
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
Activists from LIiS identified 33 cases of this crime, but law enforcement agencies opened only seven cases