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Ukrainian wood organized a steal with weapons in hand, – Derzhlisagentstvo

The problem of illegal cuttings in Ukraine came to a new level, now the forest organized steal with weapons in hand and teplovìzorah. Forest protection is powerless. About it today, Feb. 13, the National forestry Technical University during the visiting session of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on agrarian policy and land relations, said first Deputy Head of the State Agency of forest resources Ukraine Volodymyr Bondar. The meeting was attended by MPs of Ukraine, Ministry of agriculture and food, the Ministry of ecology and natural resources, the State Agency of forest resources, representatives of local authorities, scientists and others. During the meeting discussed the issues of reformation of Forestry of Ukraine. Speakers stressed that Ukraine has a unique forestry. Nearly 16% of the Ukrainian land is covered with forests, in accordance with our country takes ninth place in the area of forests in Europe, and the sixth is a stockpile of wood. First Deputy Head of the State Agency of forest resources of Ukraine Volodymyr Bondar told about future plans to reform the industry. Only 73% of Ukrainian forests are at the disposal of the State Agency, and 27% to other ministries and institutions. They are not maintained records of the forest. Very large-scale is the problem of illegal cuttings, which in recent years has entered into a new level. Today, those who carry out illegal logging is not just uncles who reside in the village is organized people with weapons in their hands. They are night vision carry out illegal deforestation of Ukraine. We cannot effectively counter this and properly react. After all, are not well developed and organized by the State forest protection. In most cases, when you cannot remove a carved wood, then on the second day it still comes back to these people, “said Volodymyr Bondar. The official also stressed that the desired improvement of regulations in the forests of Ukraine. After going on the rapid drying of the fir trees in the Carpathians and the catastrophic drying in the Polesia area of pine forests. More than a hundred thousand hectares of forest in the Middle remains, and it is more than 8 million cubes of forests (each year is cut in Ukraine about 20 million cubes per year). The Office reported that because of improper legal base and lack of funding, they may not prevent all this negarazdam. So for four months, the Agency jointly with scientists developed a plan to exit the crisis in forestry. Was developed by six principles, which should be based forestry: the forest may not be privatized, given in concession and lease; You want to organize markets wood in Ukraine in accordance with international standards and agreements; Include the forestry to the priority sectors of the economy; Save the State of the management structure of forest farms; Identify the components of forestry; Forestry is and has to be multi-functional. Or will change, depends on the concerted action of the Verkhovna Rada and the Cabinet of Ministers. Head of the Lviv OBLAST STATE ADMINISTRATION Oleh Sinûtka particularly emphasized on the fact that četvertina exports of Lviv is the export of forest industry. Only in Lviv officially in the forest industry employs 10,000 people. From EEYORE ZIK