ukrainian news - 17.03.2009
Government will do all it can to increase forest resources of Ukraine
He was speaking during a meeting on Saturday
dedicated to the issues and the future of the forestry industry,
according to the cabinet's press service. The first vice prime minister said that in the year following the
cabinet's moratorium on forested land transfer decisions, over 1,500
hectares of forested land had been returned to state ownership in Kyiv
region. "The government will account for every square meter of forest," he said. According to the first vice prime minister, it is really important
to preserve mountain forests, as they are a natural defense system. "Preserving mountain forests is something we all should do," he
said. He noted that the government has drawn up new logging regulations
for Ukraine's Carpathian mountain forests.
See also:
- — Premier Tymoshenko proposes economic managers to replace about 18 billion cu m of gas by straw and woodworking industry woodwaste
- — Ukraine to get EUR 150mn from Japan
- — Ukraine, Italy intensify cooperation
- — Forests' certification according to scheme of international NGO Forest Safety Council held in Zakarpattia region
- — The distress of the wood processing industry will have consequences also for forestry
