Interview about the logging in Strandja with the Mayor of Tsarevo engineer forester George Lapchev:
- Mr. Lapchev in Tsarevo Municipality does exist this problem with unscrupulous logging in Strandja, which complained the mayor of Malko Tarnovo Ilian Yanchev?
- I do not want in any way to discuss the problem in a neighboring municipality. Claim to be familiar with this issue because I am a forester by profession.
Overexposed is this problem, but problems of course there are. Illegal logging is a term that is often used, but it is a very thin line to tell which logging is legal and what - not.
Illegal logging is when cut a tree that is unmarked.
For people, for society, it is sometimes very difficult to accept that the cut 100-year-old wood is properly cut.
- Do felling they today in Strandzha more than before?
- I'll give you an example. For the smallest farm in the region of Strandja - State Forestry Kosti 80-100 years before the annual logging was 100,000 cubic meters, and now barely reaches 18 thousand.
- What is needed to be a forest forever?
- Eternal forest can not exist if no logging. In a plantation must have trees of different ages and they can not happen if there is no logging.
But we have to have a different attitude to the timber yield, we must have particular regard to the companies involved in logging.
