COMBATING ILLEGAL LOGGING TO BE INTENSIFIED

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ At its meeting on Thursday, the cabinet discussed and then backed a concept of a draft amendment to the law on forest. The draft has been worked out by the Ministry of Environment and Green Development due to a requirement to have an extra regulation for combating illegal logging. By the current law, there is no a professional, laboratory or special unit that releases conclusions over crimes against nature and environment, so the draft has clauses on creating a system of estimating an extent of damage and releasing the expertise under a contract and after paying a concrete fee, on creating a monitoring system with the public participation, and on solving the finance of granting incentives to people. If parliament adopts this draft, the illegal logging will be abolished through collaboration between the state and private sector in combating the crimes and in tightening responsibilities of guilty people.