Is destroying Istog's Bees

Forest damage is also disturbing the city's inhabitants. As a beautiful little community, every degradation is easily seen. These forests, in addition to being cut down, stolen, and destroyed by residents of villages near the mountains, are being cut down by Serb residents of the villages located across the border.

The hard condition of the forests in Istog reminds Ali Sefaytes of wartime during which forests have not been destroyed to such proportions. He points out that such damage will result in long - term consequences for forests, which would damage landscape and mountain tourism in the city of Istog.

“The state of forest in the municipality of Istog is heavy (as well as Serbia and Milosevic has not degraded the Istog Mountains in these sizes) and this has resulted from logging and deserting forests. ” He said.

The degradation of forests to this extent leaves it to municipal governments, asambitors and power funders in Istog who, according to him, the only way of salvation from this situation is reforestation.

“The Istog municipality has contributed to this degradation with action and inaction by stimulating forest degradation through sanitation cuts. The central government through its mechanisms has to react to protecting the forests of Istog if they want to save the few forests that remain”, Sefay added.

The cutting down of forests for business purposes has damaged most forests in Istog, and this has also affected Alpin Club environmentalists “Podguri” who are being ashamed of their appearance and lack of forest culture, which is affecting the mountain presentation for tourists.

This is also one of the main factors continuing to damage forests in the country. We're constantly like environmentalists like mountain resort clubs, we've raised the sound on local radio and TV so that more controls and stops along mountain roads can be prevented from cutting illegally.”, add them.

The non-coordination of forest - management institutions has mostly destroyed forests in the Istog region, companies that allegedly were for forest cleaning have done the opposite. This has questioned “Podgurin” that following organised cuts, those locations have been burned to eliminate traces.

“According to data we have, illegal logging of forests has become 30 %s of the owners of forests in the private sector, while targeted illegal trading is the majority of forest cuts that included about 60% of the cuts and most of the public forests.”, add them.

Passing competencies from the Agency for Forest Protection to municipal authorities appears to have not helped prevent this phenomenon.

Forestry Sector representative in the Istog municipality, Daut Kabashi, emphasises that major concerns about logging are on the part of Serbian citizens who are damaging and attacking the forests of this city.

“ Forest cutting is good compared to the previous years there's drastic decline in illegal cuts, the municipality creates conditions for not stealing, but it's getting paid when citizens need wood supplies, with a symbolic sum, this year we have illegal cuts around 83 cubicles that compared to the previous years this is a minimal “damage, Kabashi added

Istog as the Dukagjin Raft municipality has 19,000 acres of forest surfaces. From an institute research GAP In 2009, it shows that one of the problems Istog has faced has been the illegal cutting of forests, which he is still facing after 11 years. /Albina Selmanaj