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In the Saykhunabad district of the Syrdarya region, a court has sentenced three “black loggers” to prison. Meanwhile, in the Uchtepa district of Tashkent, unknown individuals are poisoning trees with chemicals. It seems one of the developers has set their sights on this territory.
The Syrdarya Case
According to the Ministry of Ecology, three local residents, having conspired in advance, illegally cut down and sold 21 elm trees from December 2023 to January 2024. A criminal case was initiated under part 2 of Article 198 (damage or destruction of crops, forests, trees, or other plants) of the Criminal Code.
As a result of the illegal logging, damage to nature amounted to 1.4 billion sums. The court decided to recover the damages from the participants in the crime and sentenced each of them to 2 years in prison.
Incident in Tashkent
Recently, a plea for help appeared on social media from the residents of the 25th block of the Uchtepa district in Tashkent. They reported that the trees in their neighborhood had been poisoned by unknown individuals.
As reported by Aziz Naimov, Deputy Hokim of the Uchtepa district for housing and communal services and landscaping, according to the conclusion of the district’s ecological inspection, indeed, an unknown chemical substance was applied to the lower part of the trees in the 25th block near house №2 with the intent to deliberately kill them. However, it is still unknown who did this.
Law enforcement agencies are conducting an investigation into this matter.
Both of these incidents highlight the urgent need to protect our nature and to have stricter control over compliance with ecological norms. Illegal logging and the poisoning of trees with chemicals are serious crimes that cause irreparable damage to the environment. Those responsible for these actions must be duly punished to ensure such cases do not recur in the future.
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