Angara region: Residents demand to stop cutting forest

Residents of the Irkutsk region demand to stop the revenue of the forest in the region and investigate the criminal case, previously instituted at the Minister of the Forest Complex of the Angara region Sergey Sheverdu. The petition with these requirements, posted yesterday on the Change.org website, was signed by almost 2 thousand people.

The authors of the petition are sure that the forests of the Tukolon reserve and the Padunsky forestry are destroyed illegally, and they ask to stop the "barbaric deforestation" of the forest in the Angara region. According to the compilers of the document, last year over 660 thousand hectares of the forest fund suffered from fires and deforestation in the region, including the forest in reserves and reserves, leased to forest cutters under the pretext of sanitary cutting. The Irkutsk people recall that in June, the deputy minister of the Irkutsk region of the Irkutsk region, Alexei Tuga, who agreed on the illegal Sanruba of the 500 hectares of the relict forest in the Tukolon Nature Forest, was arrested, and the criminal case was instituted at the Minister of the Forest Complex of the region Sergey Sheverdu, who signed an agreement on the cut of forest in Padunsky forestry. The authors of the petition addressed to the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, Russian Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika and the governor of the Irkutsk region Sergey Levchenko, demand an objective investigation of the Shaverda case and immediately resigned the Minister.

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On the same day, when the petition came out, it became known that the governor of the Irkutsk region Sergey Levchenko sent a letter to the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin with a proposal to completely ban the export of wood in the form of a round forest for a period of one year on January 1, 2020. According to the press service of the regional administration, the head of the region also proposed to establish the rates of export customs duties on roughly processed lumber, for example, a beam or a raw non-driving board.

Experts have already called the proposal of the governor of populist, saying that the ban on Kruglyak would not change anything in the current scheme of the export of forest from the Angara region. “Due to high duties, local exporters formally already abandoned the circle-they slightly cut off the bark on both sides of the logs and voila: the forest is already processed. They will tighten the requirements-they will cut off the four sides, this will not change the essence of the matter,” one of the industry participants on the conditions of anonymity told the Siberia. Real.

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