161 cases of illegal logging recorded in Georgia in April 2020
In total, the State Sub-Agency Department of Environmental Supervision recorded 209 cubic meters of illegally extracted timber in April. Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge.
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The State Sub-Agency Department of Environmental Supervision has recorded 161 cases of illegal logging and transportation of timber throughout Georgia in April 2020.
Out of 161 cases, three of them may be criminally prosecutable, says the agency.
Illegal logging and transportation of timber were recorded in 10 regions:
- Kakheti – 80 cases;
- Imereti – 24 cases;
- Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti – 15 cases;
- Samtskhe-Javakheti – 14 cases;
- Kartli – 9 cases;
- Kvemo Kartli – 6 cases;
- Mtskheta-Mtaineti – 5 cases;
- Ajara – 5 cases;
- Guria – 2 cases;
- Racha-Lechkhumi and Lower Svaneti – 1 case.
In total, the agency recorded 209 cubic meters of illegally extracted timber in April.
The agency reports that 10 cases of violating technical regulations at sawmills were recorded in April throughout Georgia.
The State Sub-Agency Department of Environmental Supervision has registered 3,573 cases of illegal logging and transportation of timber in 2019.
251 cases of illegal logging and timber transportation were recorded in between July 1-31, the Environmental Supervision Department reports.
We are starting an uncompromising battle against the illegal usage of forests, Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili said at today’s cabinet meeting. Kvirikashvili said the Ministry of Environment Protection and Agriculture is working on important changes regulating and strengthening laws that concern forests and their utilization as natural resources.
A new programme will be launched in 2019 to co-finance a new enterprise that will process forest waste, announces Georgia’s Ministry of Environment Protection and Agriculture.
The State Sub-Agency Department of Environmental Supervision has recorded 155 cases of illegal logging and transportation of timber throughout Georgia in May 2020. Out of 155 cases, nine of them may be criminally prosecutable, says the agency.
The State Sub-Agency Department of Environmental Supervision has registered 1,532 cases of illegal logging and transportation of timber throughout Georgia in January-June 2020.