The Directorate for Management of Forests and Hunting Grounds announced that their officers in the Rožaje Regional Unit, in the previous days, thanks to intensive field controls, discovered two illegal fellings, and forwarded the cases to the competent authorities for further action.
"In the Economic Unit 'Županica', the forest guard went out to the field and took the actions provided for by law, about which he informed his superior and submitted a criminal complaint to the prosecutor's office with a report and photos of the fallen trees. The illegal materials that the perpetrators of this act failed to retrieve were confiscated and confiscated , which is very important to economically weaken the perpetrators," the announcement states.
"Also, wood assortments were seized from illegal felling in the economic unit of the 'Vučansko-Biševska šume', where 25 cham trees were cut down with a gross wood volume of 39,05 m³, and where the Administration is ready to try, in cooperation with other competent authorities, to narrows down the number of potential climbers, so that it would be much easier for other institutions to react," it added.
They said that the Administration will continue "an intensive fight against illegal logging" and that their officers will "tighten the sudden control of the terrain". "Only in this way will we be able to protect Montenegrin forests and eradicate illegal activities from them", they conclude.
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