ukrainian news - 05.10.2009
Tymoshenko vows to tackle illegal logging more effectively
"We, along with the leadership of the State Forestry Committee and
the whole team of foresters, yesterday took key decisions in order to
protect forestland," she said during her visit to a forest division in
Radomyshl district, Zhytomyr region, on Thursday.Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has said she hopes that the
decisions on forestry taken by the government at a meeting on, September 16, will help tackle illegal logging more
effectively.
"This is the first decision taken over the years of [Ukraine's]
independence in which foresters were given special rights,
opportunities and tools to more effectively protect forestland from any
unauthorized logging or possible fires," Tymoshenko.
See also:
- — Russia — Russia could delay increase in timber export duties, even cut them
- — Global trade of wood chips down 26% in 2009
- — Romania-linked timber firm eyes investments
- — Finland — Finnish paper company to sever ties with logging firm linked to rainforest destruction in Indonesia
- — How tree communities respond to distance to edges and canopy openness
