In Durmitor National Park, in a strictly protected zone, more than 50 healthy hundred-year-old trees were cut down, Miloš Lazarević, executive director of the non-governmental organization Coalition for Sustainable Development (KOR), told Vijesti.
He called on the authorities to react urgently, stressing that this is the destruction of the greatest treasure in the heart of NP Durmitor.
"Once again, as in the case of Little Montenegro, the abuse of official position allows the cutting of our greatest treasure in the heart of Durmitor National Park in the area of Jablan Lake. UNESCO guidelines strictly prohibit the exploitation of forests for the sake of profit (and even sanitary felling is extremely limited), and the management of NP Durmitor allows the felling of healthy hundred-year-old trees," he said.
KOR accused the current director of NP Durmitor, Pero Popović, of allowing illegal activities.
"Since the value of the material into which these trees will be turned is extremely high, this must be about organized crime, and the current director of NP Durmitor, Pero Popović, has on several occasions allowed illegal activities and justified them, as was the case in Little Montenegro. as well as during the construction of an illegal cottage next to Lake Barno itself (the first protection zone)", said KOR.
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