Logging

Vanishing Greenery: For North Macedonia’s Developers, Law Protecting Urban Green Space is no Obstacle

There will also no longer be any space for the gardens that surrounded the old buildings, or for the trees that used to grow there.

These trees were not only of sentimental value to old Skopje residents, or important for activists seeking more humane urban development.

More than 18 Thousand cubic meters of Illegal Logging in Bulgaria was Established in 2022

In 2022, the total amount of wood identified by employees of the "Executive Forestry Agency" (EFA) and its structures, subject to illegal felling or disposal transactions with wood of unknown origin, amounted to more than 18.1 thousand solid cubic meters.

After the Floods: No Illegal Logging has been Discovered in Karlovo region, Inspections are Ongoing

Initial checks show that there is no illegal logging in the Bulgarian region of Karlovo, which has suffered severely from flooding following torrential rains. This was stated on BNT by Eng. Stoyan Toshev, executive director of the Forestry Agency.

Bulgaria’s PM Promised: The State will Grant Money to the Victims of the Floods

"The state will allocate funds to help victims of the floods in Karlovo region. There will not be a single person left that was affected who will not be helped", stated acting Prime Minister Galab Donev during a visit to the village of Karavelovo.

BIRN Fact-check: Is Illegal Logging Destroying Romania’s Forests?

The seriousness of the problem was revealed by the National Forest Inventory, IFN, which calculates the surface of forests and the existing volume of wood they contain.

The first IFN study measured these indicators for 2008 to 2012. The second and latest report, fully released in October 2019, establishes the figures for the period 2013-2018.

#2019PresidentialElection/ Dancila: Forests, my first environmental priority as President of Romania

The leader of the Social Democrats, Viorica Dancila, says that "as president of Romania" forests would be her first environmental priority. "Forests are my first environmental priority, as President of Romania.

Thousands of people participate in march to defend forests, in Bucharest city center

Over 2,000 persons gathered on Sunday night in the center of Bucharest, near University Square, to participate in a march to defend forests and against violence targeting forest rangers, organized by environment organizations Declic, Agent Green and Greenpeace.

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