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Illegal logging of native and exotic forests reaches 1,403 hectares in Ñuble

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According to figures from Conaf Ñuble, over the last five years, 1,403 hectares of forest have been affected by illegal logging.

Of these, 1,039 hectares correspond to unauthorized cutting, with 720 affecting native forest and 318 affecting species such as Pine, Eucalyptus, among others.

"Conaf maintains permanent surveillance in response to reports of illegal logging and timber theft in the region. All of them are addressed by our inspection teams from the Department of Evaluation and Inspection, achieving 100% coverage of the cases that reach our offices," explained the regional director of the entity, Juan Salvador Ramírez.

The Conaf Ñuble official added that "during the last five-year period, we have carried out an average of nearly 300 inspections annually, of which around 50 correspond to reports made by citizens. In terms of area, in the last five years we have inspected more than 16 thousand hectares, including nearly 1,400 directly linked to illicit activities."

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Conaf Ñuble highlighted that over the last five years, 1,507 inspection activities have been carried out across 16,285 hectares following 243 complaints received in the Local Police Courts of the municipalities. Also, according to the Ñuble Prosecutor's Office, to date there are currently 12 people charged with timber theft. Conaf clarifies that not everything corresponding to illegal logging corresponds to timber theft; it also includes cutting trees that do not comply with forestry regulations.

For example, cutting without a management plan, cutting outside authorized areas, affecting more species or volume than authorized, and intervening in protected native forest without authorization, and that the classification is the purview of the prosecuting institutions, police, and the Prosecutor's Office.

Source:Soychile.cl