Interdepartmental operational and preventive measures "Fir-tree"

In order to ensure the safety of coniferous young trees in the pre-New Year period, the Ministry of Forestry of the Republic of Tatarstan, in cooperation with the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Republic of Tatarstan, carries out an interdepartmental operational preventive measure "Fir-tree".

Within the framework of this measure, the harvesting and exportation of harvested New Year trees from plantations and nurseries is monitored.

Mobile patrol groups are created from among forestry specialists.

Systematic patrolling of forest areas with coniferous plantations prevalenceis provided.

The explanatory work is carried out in the mass media and in schools about preservation and careful attitude to the forest, and inadmissibility of the destruction of coniferous young trees in the pre-New Year period.

In the current year, 109 mobile patrolling teams were established in the republic, 5 facts of illegal deforestation of New Year trees were detected. Damage to forests caused by violation of forest legislation amounted to 9500 rubles.

When buying New Year's trees, you should pay attention to the fact that the acquisition, storage, transportation or sale of knowingly illegally harvested wood entails the imposition of an administrative fine on citizens in the amount of five thousand rubles; on officials - fifty thousand rubles; on legal entities - from four hundred thousand to seven hundred thousand rubles.