The bodies of the Ministry of Natural Resources of the Minsk region for 10 months revealed more than 800 violations of the law in the forest fund

More than 800 violations of environmental legislation were revealed from January to October of this year on the lands of the forest fund by the territorial bodies of the Ministry of Natural Resources of Belarus in the Minsk region, the Minsk Regional Committee for Natural Resources and Environmental Protection informed sb.by.

The committee informed:

— Within the framework of compliance with the requirements of legislation in the field of environmental protection, rational use of natural resources, including on the issues of restoring order, the territorial bodies of the Ministry of Natural Resources on the lands of the forest fund of the Minsk region for 10 months carried out 12 control measures, 96 surveys of territories, the results of which established 814 violations of environmental legislation.

To eliminate the identified violations, 40 instructions, one recommendation, 152 information letters were sent to land users, and 29 guilty persons were brought to administrative responsibility for a total amount of fines of 16.04 thousand, 131 persons were released from administrative responsibility with a warning.

- As of November 1, 792 violations have been eliminated, the committee said. The Ministry of Natural Resources reacted to reports in social networks about the insecurity of nets for catching birds in the shopping center near Minsk