Tag: logging

The Skopje Zoo announced happy news - another baby, this time from the rare species White-handed gibbon was born there. "In the Skopje Zoo, the mother Betka and the father George welcomed another baby of the rare species White-handed gibbon. Its gender is still not known, since we didn't want to upset the mother, but the baby has an older...

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 previous years, but it...

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 that the country is gradually...

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 public enterprise to express our...