Illegal logging notification system — how to use

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Data: 16.05.22
Illegal logging notification system — how to use

Specialists of the NGO «Forest Initiatives and Society» presented a new system for monitoring changes in forest cover and reports of illegal logging or forest fires «Deep Green Ukraine». With the help of this site, every Ukrainian will be able to send a a short notice regarding the forest violation.

Our experts will check the application — professional environmentalists, who will be able to verify the legality of felling. If they find violations, they will pass the data to law enforcement agencies.

During the war, such functionality also allows to record and document the mass crimes of Russian invaders in the temporarily occupied territories. Therefore, the founders of the site and specialists of the State Environmental Inspectorate call for the use of the resource.

«It is extremely important to document not only the direct destruction of forests, but also the damage caused by the fighting by the occupiers. For example, the crowns of trees have been damaged by «hail» and may now die,» said Polina Pirohova, an ecologist at the State Coinspection.

You can report forest violations in any region of Ukraine; you just need to open the site and select the red mark with an exclamation mark. Next, you need to fill out a small form in which you must specify the approximate coordinates, as well as the place and time of detection of the violation. The information will then be saved in the system and a mark will appear on the map.

The site also has a feature for automatic monitoring of changes in forest cover, which works with the help of the the constant updating of satellite images. However, due to confidentiality, he will start working after the end of the war.

How exactly to use the site, we explained step by step in the video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5Z0heRzrK0