Forest cleaning program will run

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ The Ministry of Environment and Green Development is planning to launch a forest cleaning program for the first time through countrywide. The program will result at reduced forest fires after cleaning combustible waste in forests. Collected woods will be supplied to wood market, note specialists, thus decreasing illegal wood preparation. The program is planned to start from the first session of the year. A total of four billion togrog is required to provide professional companies with high technologies, and a single brigade will be able to collect nine thousand cube meter woods from 200-250 hectare areas a year. The money source will be decided by the government, the ministry informed. The forest covers 18.5 million hectare or 11.09 percent of the total territories in Mongolia.