Forest Offences

The forest guards also protect the forests against offences. According to the last ten years figures an average number of 34507 illegal actions happens in a year (unrecorded offences are claimed to be as much as third of this figure) resulting in annual 71.113 m³ industrial, 20.560 tons fuel wood cut.

Decrease in the rural population and increasing cost of agriculture result in steady downtrend of forest offences.

Forest offences are highly concentrated in some certain part of the Country, usually around the most industrialized part. GDF has been considering developing partnership with forest villages on mutual benefits to prevent forest offences. The second scheme is to organize mobile special teams that are not connected to any fixed region. The organization of these special teams is called ORKUT and the first implementations yielded promising results. GDF has decided to expand the ORKUT teams in 2005 and forward. Specifically trained ORKUT teams will also take part in Forest Rescue operations.