Slonim authorities continue destroying the green zone
Slonim
residents and local members of the association of democratic forces
have been struggling against deforestation
in the Albiartsin suburb in Voikau Street. The
local authorities want to cut down the trees so that rich people and
state officials could build cottages there. Earlier the cutdown was
stopped. However, on 11 July it resumed and ten pine trees were cut.
The head of the
Slonim association of democratic forces Ivan Sheha applied to the
Slonim District Executive Committee, the Slonim Prosecutor's Office
and the Hrodna committee of natural resources and environmental
protection with the request to find out why
deforestation had begun
again in the green zone of Slonim district, although no one has
canceled Art.118 of the
Land Code of the
Republic of Belarus land, according to which
green zones are under a special protection,
and the construction of buildings is not
allowed there.