Putin's Envoy Worried By Scale of Illegal Logging in Russian Far East
Posted on: Saturday, 11 February 2006, 06:00 CST
Excerpt from report by Russian news agency ITAR-TASS
Khabarovsk, 11 February: Presidential envoy to the Far Eastern Federal District Kamil Iskhakov insists that legislation must be amended in order to stop illegal logging. He said this today at a meeting of heads of Far Eastern regional parliaments.
[Passage omitted: the participants of the meeting insisted on harder punishments and tougher state control over issuing permissions for logging and export of timber]
The illegal timber trade in the Far East is growing year on year. As much as 7.8m cubic metres of timber was exported in 2005 from Khabarovsk Territory alone. According to expert estimates, 40-50 per cent of it was cut unlawfully.
[Passage omitted: regional legislators also discussed problems related to fishing]
Source: BBC Monitoring Former Soviet Union
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