“The functions of forest conservation were completely assigned to the regions, and many of them either could not cope financially with these responsibilities, or after the sleeves were related to eliminating the consequences of forest fires,” he said.
According to him, after the Year of Ecology, a law on reforestation was adopted. As Ivanov explained, the idea is simple - how many forests were cut down for industrial purposes, when building roads or power lines, they are required to plant as much.
In addition, the law will allow the fight against "black loggers".
Ivanov also recalled that within the framework of the national project "Ecology", 24 billion rubles were allocated for the purchase of fire-fighting and reforestation equipment. In 2020, the staff of the Airborne Guard will increase by more than a thousand people. The organization will have its own fleet.
Earlier, the head of the Federal Aviation Protection Agency Vitaliy Akberdin spoke with the NSN about the situation with forest fires in Russia.