Deforestation in Ardenica and Seman

Irresponsible people have cut great areas of pine trees in one of the hills around the tourist attraction of Ardenica and Lushnje. There are around 50 cut trees that lead to the Ardenica Monastery.

So far there has been no reaction or intervention by the Forest Directory, and neither from the Kolonje commune, where the Ardenice Monastery is situated. The trees have been cut not only with axes, but also with chainsaws, however, the deaf ear of the institutions has heard nothing. The environmental damage in the area not only due to the deforestation, but also due to the fire that erupted some years ago, now is very high. Ardenica, one of the most important and most visited historical monuments of Albania has now turned into a desert.

While near the Seman Beach, in Fier, trucks carry each day dozens of cube meters of 60 year old pines. They are used for building bars alongside the seaside. Now that the tourist season has almost began, the deforestation is even more massive. Indifferent to the laws and punishments, these people keep doing the massacre on behalf of their property, by destroying themselves.

The trees are cut and transported in broad daylight, as if they were their own property, and no one answers for this irresponsibility. The Seman Forest, of hundreds of hectares, a few years passed under the local administration.

The Topoje Commune, beside leasing and developing the private activity in the seaside, show no interest about the massacre.

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