As it turns out, in the Primorsky Krai most damage is not applied nature of the businesses of offenders and even poachers: Last year about 15000 environmental violations committed, above all, ordinary people in the region due to lack of environmental education and consumer attitudes to natural resources. RIA «VladNews» met with coastal environmental prosecutor Vladimir Kolesnikov, who spoke about what work is being done in Primorye conservation. How did you learn to RIA «VladNews», in accordance with the approved plan of decriminalization of key industries of the Far East in 2011-2013 (the plan was approved in 2011 envoy Viktor Ishayev) priority for the Maritime interdistrict environmental prosecutor\’s office directions surveillance activities are in compliance with the law forest relations and enforcement of legislation on fisheries. It is in these areas have the basic number of violations of the law revealed by the seaside interdistrict environmental prosecutor\’s office (364 and 232 respectively, breach of 1087 violations identified for 2012). On the scope of man-made pollution of the environment (as opposed to nature) accounts for only a quarter of the identified violations in the last year (233). It should be noted that in accordance with Article 21 of the Federal Law «On the Procuracy of the Russian Federation,» prosecutors should not duplicate the work of specially authorized regulatory bodies, and therefore, the response is generally not apply to individuals. Meanwhile, the majority of registered in the Primorsky Territory environmental violations (about 15000), according to the analysis of the state of law in the field of environmental protection is accomplished primarily by citizens — residents of the region due to lack of environmental education and consumer attitudes to natural resources. An illustrative example — it is illegal hunting, turnovers that directly depend on the total number of legal and illegal hunting weapons in the region. Currently, the province registered more than 40000 persons in the use of this type of weapon. For comparison, according to ohotucheta on the territory of the region there is not one kind of game animals that would exceed this number of hunters (spotted deer — 13 thousand individuals, roe — 31 thousand animals, wild boar — 19.5 thousand individuals, etc. ). The low number of animals due to the obvious lack of ongoing biotech activities (feeding, moving animals, etc.). According to Vladimir Kolesnikov, unfortunately, many hunters are not vaccinated understanding that legal hunting preceded by a long process of significant investments in improving the productivity of hunting grounds. Free fishing — this is the first sign of poaching, and they abuse the considerable range of hunters. At the same time, the violations committed by business entities in the sphere of nature (less than a thousand of registered offenses), have more global significance as unsustainable use of natural resources leads to depletion. In this part of the Environmental Prosecutor\’s Office is working with the environmental authorities. The main goal — a preventive effect that, guided by the words of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation, by means of Public Prosecutions to prevent «the growing environmental threat.» It should be noted that the tactic of Public Prosecutions is subject to a coordinating function of environmental prosecutors. The prosecutor\’s office in the organization of supervision can not replace the work of the specially authorized state bodies. So, more than half of last year uncovered violations (511) found in the activities of the officials of environmental agencies and authorities, which contributed, to a certain extent, the qualitative improvement of environmental performance.
Alexander Ognevsky