Subsoil — latest ecology news
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
Thousands of trees have been found to have been illegally felled in the north of the country
No government representatives attended the event, but the activists hope to get their message across to them at the forthcoming round-table discussion
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 former director of one of the branches of ‘Forests of Ukraine’ has been charged with negligence, which led to 226 hectares of state-owned forest becoming ‘Medvedchuk’s holiday home’
The agency had already been refused in April, but resubmitted the same proposal
Those involved in the scheme laundered illegally extracted minerals through companies under their control
An unauthorised rubbish tip on land belonging to ‘Ukrzaliznytsia’ has cost the state nearly 86 million hryvnias
Separately, prosecutors are attempting to return land belonging to the water, forestry and nature reserve funds to the state
In two instances, business owners felled thousands of trees on leased land without permission