5 August 2021
The illegal logging in North Macedonia is a burning issue that is continuing to devastate the forest fund. Only in 2020, 19,282 cubic meters of wood were cut down illegally from the forests in North Macedonia, state the data provided by the State Statistical Office (SSO). The situation improved last year in comparison to the […]
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3 August 2021
The aforestation in North Macedonia has been in decline during the past decade. In 2020, new trees were planted on 569 hectares only, which is the second-lowest level in the past decade, after 20,17 when 553 hectares of land were forested, show the data by the State Statistical Office. What’s most worrisome is the fact […]
3 August 2021
From the morning, a complete ban for movement in the forest areas is in force in North Macedonia and the Government pleads the citizens not to go into the forests – both for their own safety and to prevent any further wildfires. The wildfire around the town of Kochani that ravaged last night has been […]
12 March 2021
The Macedonian forests are at constant risk not from the forest fires and illegal logging and misuse of the wood as firewood, but also from the insufficient number of forest rangers, inspectors and forest police that are supposed to take care of their safety. According to the data provided by the public enterprise “Makedonski shumi” […]
30 October 2019
The Director of the Directorate for Protection and Rescue, Adnan Dzaferovski said that nine fires are active across the country and being put out with “Air tractors There were photographs on the social media that were made from a satellite and it can be seen the smoke from the fires in Macedonia. “Up to this […]
25 July 2019
Environmentalists from the Strumica Region alarm that although there is no mine on Mount Ograzhden, the area where the Ilovica Mine was planned is being mercilessly destroyed by extensive logging of enormous area of high-quality wood by the local branch of the Public Enterprise “National Forests”. “We visited yesterday the local branch office of the […]
