The region will develop a law regulating the creation of forest park green belts around urban areas.

On the basis of the Standing Committee on Agrarian Policy and Environmental Management of the Legislative Assembly of the Tver Region, a working meeting was held on the issues of legislative regulation of the creation of forest park green belts in urban settlements.

The idea of ​​creating an additional "green shield" around the cities belongs to the All-Russian People's Front. The initiative, designed to improve the ecological situation, strengthen control over the state of forest plantations, was supported by the President of the country, leader of the ONF Vladimir Putin. In June 2016, relevant amendments were adopted to the federal law "On Environmental Protection" and a number of other legislative acts. The forest park green belt may include forests and green fund areas within the boundaries of cities adjacent to them or constituting a single ecosystem with them. In such a territory, a limited regime of nature management and economic activity is introduced, clear-cutting and other works are prohibited.

As the head of the regional executive committee of the All-Russian Popular Front in the Tver region, Tatyana Ulyanova, noted at the meeting, the idea of ​​creating green belts is currently being implemented in 60 constituent entities of the Russian Federation: a regional regulatory framework is being developed with broad public involvement. In the Voronezh region, the law on forest park green belts of urban settlements has already been adopted.

According to Alexander Kushnarev, Deputy Chairman of the Standing Committee on Agrarian Policy and Environmental Management, the preparation of a regional legal act regulating the creation of green belts will require a lot of preparatory work, and for a good start in lawmaking, it is necessary to listen to and summarize the proposals of all interested departments.

The discussion was attended by Deputy Chairman of the Government of the region - Minister of Agriculture Pavel Migulev, Minister of Forestry Valery Baryshkov, representatives of the leadership of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology, the Public Chamber of the Tver Region, the Upper Volga Environmental Prosecutor's Office, the territorial department of Rosprirodnadzor, the administrations of the city of Tver and the Kalinin District. The meeting participants agreed on the need to carefully study the legal details of the future bill, taking into account the specifics of the Tver region, more than 60 percent of the area is covered by forests and 992 specially protected natural areas have been allocated.

The outcome of the discussion was summed up by the Chairman of the Legislative Assembly Sergei Golubev.

We must implement the proposals of the federal legislation, make changes to the regional regulatory framework. But first it is necessary to clearly define the legal terminology. And also to monitor which specific areas around Tver, Rzhev and our other cities can be included in forest park green belts, - the speaker of the regional parliament emphasized. - The main role should belong to the public, it is provided with ample opportunities. On the part of the Legislative Assembly, we are ready to help and support its work.

Based on the results of the meeting, it was recognized as expedient to create a working group based on the Public Chamber of the Tver Region, which will develop the concept of a draft regional law regulating the creation of forest park green belts around urban settlements. It is planned that the group, along with representatives of public organizations, will include lawyers, specialists from forestry and environmental departments. Public hearings are to be held on the draft law.

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The Civic Chamber of the Republic of Altai held public hearings initiated by representatives of the regional branch of the All-Russian Popular Front on the creation of a forest park green belt in Gorno-Altaisk. Representatives of the Ministry of Natural Resources, Ecology and Property Relations of the region, the administration of Gorno-Altaisk, the public and the media took part in the event. The result of the discussion was a unanimous vote in support of the ONF activists' proposal to create a "green shield" in the area of ​​quarters 010360 and 010361, which includes areas of forest plantations and reservoirs from Mount Komsomolskaya to the Yelanda tract.

“From January 1, 2017, the federal law on the creation of forest park green belts came into force, initiated by the ONF. This law protects forests around cities from cutting down and development, restricts economic activity on their territory, and provides for the creation of forest park green belts. We hope that the public and the city administration will support the initiative of the ONF to create a "green shield", and city residents will be created a comfortable area for recreation, tourism, collection of natural resources and an increase in the "green lungs" of the city, ”the expert of the regional headquarters of the ONF noted during the presentation. Republic of Altai Sergey Zykovich.

He recalled that the regional branch of the Popular Front actively joined the work in this area in the spring of this year, together with the Ministry of Natural Resources, Ecology and Property Relations of the Republic, the Russian Geographical Society, the administration of the city of Gorno-Altaisk, the Public Chamber of the Republic of Altai, the main department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations in the Republic Altai and the public.

Zykovich spoke in detail about what gives the territories the status of a "green shield" and answered questions.

Caring townspeople expressed their desire to continue planting forests around the administrative center of the republic with the involvement of residents of the suburban villages of Kyzyl-Ozek, Alferovo and everyone else. They also talked about the need to preserve trees inside the city.

During the public hearings, it was noted that the territory proposed for the creation of a "green shield" belongs to the recreational zone. The budget of the city of Gorno-Altaisk includes funds for cadastral registration of all forests of the administrative center of the region.

“There was a lively and interested communication, during which many opinions were expressed. It is felt that the problem worries people. Among the participants were young people. Statements were repeatedly made for the preservation and enhancement of the forests of Gorno-Altaisk,” commented Andrey Ishchenko, co-chairman of the regional headquarters of the ONF in the Altai Republic.

The participants in the discussion decided to support the proposals of ONF activists to create a "green shield" from Mount Komsomolskaya to the Yelanda tract. This event was called historical by the participants of public hearings. After the final resolution is finalized, a petition will be sent to the State Assembly - El Kurultai of the Republic of Altai for the adoption of the relevant normative act.

By the beginning of this May, according to the federal Public Monitoring Center of the ONF on the problems of ecology and forest protection, in 24 regions of Russia, the Legislative Assembly, at the request of the regional branches of the ONF, supported at public hearings in the Public Chambers, had already decided to create forest park protective belts around their largest cities. In another 24 constituent entities, decisions on the creation of "green shields" have been approved by the Public Chambers and are being considered by regional parliaments.

The Irkutsk region is not included in any of the lists now. Although since last September it was among the regions where the practical creation of "green shields" has not yet begun, the initiative has already been officially supported at public hearings. The final decision on the creation (or refusal to create) a forest park belt around Irkutsk, in accordance with the legislatively established deadlines for considering the initiative, was to be taken by the Legislative Assembly of the region on April 18-19 this year at the session. But literally a day before the opening of the session, the chairman of the Public Chamber of the Irkutsk Region, referring to a written appeal to the Chamber of the regional government, withdrew from the Legislative Assembly the protocol of public hearings sent there six months ago. “To clarify the area of ​​the forest park green belt being created,” he explained his own unprecedented decision. The sole withdrawal of the protocol of public hearings, in which the chairman of the chamber did not even participate, caused ONF activists to doubt its legitimacy, which became the reason for applying to the prosecutor's office. But, be that as it may, there was nothing for the deputies to consider at the session. Three lines of unprepossessing clerical text, written by an official in an official letter at the request of the regional executive authorities, set aside the creation of an instrument to protect suburban lands from plunder for an indefinitely long time.

And the preparation of the issue for hearings at the session of the Legislative Assembly began rather routinely. A couple of weeks before the session, Kuzma Aldarov, chairman of the committee on legislation on nature management, ecology and agriculture of the AP, gathered a working meeting to listen to the points of view of all interested parties, settle possible contradictions, and coordinate the interests of different groups and departments. To prepare, on the basis of what has been said, heard and agreed upon, a high-quality draft resolution of the session that does not cause controversy and misunderstandings.

Sergey Apanovich, coordinator of the ONF regional public monitoring group on ecology and forest protection, reminded the audience that the law on “green shields”, which prevents the squandering of natural suburban areas, has been in force in Russia for almost a year and a half and is being actively implemented by many subjects of the federation. The forests around Irkutsk, according to Sergey Apanovich, are becoming less and less every year, and the prompt creation of a “green shield” will help us preserve at least what remains. And somewhere, perhaps, it will allow to restore already disturbed natural areas.

“In forest park green belts, economic activity is limited, but not excluded,” Apanovich noted. - Here you can build hydraulic structures, communication lines, power lines, pipelines, roads, railways. The list of permitted by law includes healthcare facilities, education, recreational, tourist facilities, sports grounds and stadiums. The law also establishes a list of land plots that cannot be included in the green belt precisely because economic activity cannot be restricted on them. First of all, these are lands that are already legally in someone's private, corporate or other ownership. These are the most polluted areas. These are land plots with legally erected capital construction facilities, as well as those officially reserved for state needs or for subsoil use.

The inclusion of land in the forest park green belts, according to Apanovich, in no case will entail the termination of the rights of land owners and legal land users. The creation of a "green shield" will not infringe on anyone's economic interests, but it will create additional guarantees for the preservation of the quality of the human environment and help achieve the main goal of the adopted law. In addition to forests, the protective zone can and should include the closest to the city and intra-city PAs - specially protected natural areas with their own regimes. As well as landscapes, water bodies, any corners of nature, not yet built up, not sold to anyone and not appropriated by anyone. Those to which all citizens and guests of Irkutsk will have unhindered access.

According to the plan, the forest park green belt of the regional center should have a total area of ​​320,000 hectares and cover the city with an approximately 30-kilometer strip. It won't be solid. It will later be impossible to build new capital buildings in the forest-park green belt, and everything that has already been legally built in this strip will remain outside the boundaries of the “green shield”, which the government of the Irkutsk region has yet to determine. If the Legislative Assembly decides accordingly.

I note that initially the initiative group of ONF activists, having examined the outskirts of Irkutsk from a bird's eye view, proposed creating a forest park belt 50 kilometers wide. But in the process of preparing the petition, after consultations with specialists from the Ministry of Natural Resources, the Ministry of Forestry and other structures of the executive power of the region, the initiators agreed with the arguments of the professionals and "shrunk" the average width of the zone of restriction of economic activity to 30 kilometers.

“Science is ready to help in reforestation,” said Viktor Voronin, director of the Siberian Institute of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry (SIFIBR) of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, “in creating plantations for the accelerated cultivation of trees. It is necessary to quickly organize a protective belt for Irkutsk and test the experience, so that later it can be extended to other municipalities.

Finally, Kuzma Aldarov asked Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Kondrashov to talk about the position of the executive branch.

“Here I heard that suburban deforestation is not always legal,” said the Deputy Prime Minister. – And I immediately have a counter question. We will now accept the boundaries of the green belt. We will impose certain restrictions on the use of land, the main of which is a ban on the development of settlements. Or a ban on the development of housing construction areas. There are no other prohibitions in the law. Do you understand me?

I understand. Viktor Ivanovich is no exception. Many officials are convinced that “development” is when something natural is destroyed, even if it is very useful, but does not bring financial profit, and something artificial is created in its place, bringing “live” money. Cutting down a forest to sell wood or make room for a supermarket is development. But to make efforts to keep the forest alive, to create a favorable environment for citizens, including in the form of a forest park, is a “prohibition on development”. And I also realized that the very idea of ​​forming a "green shield" that could at least partially tame, slow down the scope of independent construction "where I want", the regional authorities did not like it a little. The law really imposes some restrictions on economic activity in the territories included in the protective belt, only to the development of settlements and areas of housing construction, if, of course, they are legally included in the general plans, and not brazenly seized by construction companies, this has nothing to do.

“We are slowing down the agglomeration,” Viktor Kondrashov continued, clearly emphasizing the word “slowing down” with his intonation. - I'm interested in the question of retroactive force. If this is adopted by a resolution of the Legislative Assembly, is it possible then, if necessary, to withdraw some of these zones back from the regime? In accordance with the 131st law, the municipality itself must decide how to develop it. If a talented head of the municipality appears, develops a business, he will economically support the entire region. Could this be? Maybe. We limit it from the side of the Legislative Assembly. This cannot be done.

To be frank, I personally don’t really believe in such a highly talented head of the municipality, who will “economically support the entire region”. Probably because I've never seen one like it before. But in others, those who, having barely taken the office of head of the municipality, begin hastily (suddenly they won’t be elected for a second term) to cut down the nearest forests and “grayishly” or even “blackly” sell expensive suburban lands for building their cottages , it is easier to believe, because there are many such cases in Mother Russia, including our region. It is them that this law will try to limit, aimed precisely at the development of territories. On ecological development, and not on the construction of suburban motels and supermarkets.

- There is another question - unseemly, - Kondrashov partly agrees with my thoughts. - There were precedents when, for the sake of some business structures, a decision is pushed through the Duma, the general planning changes, and the green area goes under construction. Examples of this are the Khomutovskoe municipality and the Markovskoe municipality. Everyone sees that groves that could have been saved are getting cut down in the Plishkinsky forests. It was possible to save all these pines and, if necessary, arrange residential areas nearby. There are enough fields.

- If we do not make a decision now to create a "green shield", such construction will continue, - Sergey Apanovich supported the Deputy Prime Minister. - New territories will be captured. The forest area will be destroyed. The forest park green belt will create additional restrictions for illegal construction. You correctly said that we need to look ahead and take these needs into account in master plans for the development of settlements. The creation of forest park green belts around large cities is not a tribute to fashion. Today it is the call of the times.

Sergei Apanovich did not accidentally mention the "tribute to fashion." From the general context of the statements and questions of the deputy chairman of the government, it also seemed to me that Viktor Kondrashov was not exactly categorically against the creation of a forest-park protective belt around Irkutsk. He simply does not consider this work a priority. And he also thinks that the declared area of ​​the forest park belt is extremely overestimated - 320 thousand hectares.

“If we now stake this area of ​​the forest park green belt, I want everyone to understand that later, according to the law, we will not be able to change it downwards,” Mikhail Basov, head of the legal department of the Legislative Assembly, warned the participants in the meeting.

“Reduce it by three times,” Viktor Kondrashov suggested to the initiators of the creation of the “green shield”. - Let it be 100 thousand hectares. And then we'll look at the territories and start adding.

That "then" very often means "never". And if it sounds from the lips of an official, then all the more it is nothing more than a polite form of refusal. Experienced people understand this.

After some time, having not received support for his proposal to reduce the area of ​​\u200b\u200bthe "green shield" threefold, the deputy chairman raised the stake. He began to talk about a possible 150,000 hectares. Popularly, this is called bargaining, but politicians prefer to call such concessions to opponents more beautiful and, most importantly, more solid - a search for a compromise. I was extremely surprised that Viktor Ivanovich even started this bargaining. No, if he heard about the area of ​​the forest park belt of 320 thousand hectares for the first time, then it would be clear. But the fact of the matter is that a long time ago, back in September last year, it was he who represented the government of the Irkutsk region at those very hearings in the Public Chamber of the Irkutsk region, the protocol of which set in motion the initiative of the regional branch of the ONF. And then, let me remind you, it was about the width of the protective belt, not 30, as it is now, but 50 kilometers. Moreover, in November of the same last year, responding to a specific request from Alexei Anisimov, the head of the federal executive committee of the ONF, about the situation with the formation of a "green shield" around Irkutsk, not just anyone, but again it was Kondrashov who wrote to Moscow:

“On September 21, 2017, the Public Chamber of the Irkutsk Region held public hearings on the creation of a forest park green belt in the city of Irkutsk, as a result of which it was decided to send proposals for the creation of a forest park belt around the city of Irkutsk, including urban forests of the city of Irkutsk, to the Legislative Assembly of the Irkutsk region.

Due to the fact that the creation of forest park belts is aimed at improving the environmental situation, the Government of the Irkutsk Region supports the initiative to create a forest park belt around the city of Irkutsk.”

Signature: “Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Irkutsk Region V.I. Kondrashov.

“You yourself wrote to Anisimov about supporting our petition,” Sergei Apanovich looked at the deputy chairman of the government, as it seemed to me, not even with surprise, but with amazement. – And did not indicate in the letter a single point in which you would not agree with us on the creation of a green belt.

“I said that we are moving in the federal trend,” Kondrashov answered not very specifically. - It would be foolish for the executive branch to say: "No." Especially from the body of the ONF.

Even without fully understanding the meaning of the explanation of the deputy chairman of the regional government about the “federal trend” and the “organ of the ONF”, I began to understand where Kondrashov was driving. God forbid I make a mistake, but it is very likely that the presented position of the government is nothing more than an attempt by the executive branch, once again, instead of a real solution to the problem, to create the appearance of vigorous work to solve it. To do this, you first need to talk about the problem, drown it in words, and then do a little something. Not in order to bring a decision closer, but to create an opportunity to report to the “tops”. This is a good thing for the regional government. Not only ours. In many subjects of the federation.

“We have not received a single real argument from the regional Civic Chambers and Legislative Assemblies that the creation of a “green shield” is inappropriate,” quotes Dmitry Mironov, coordinator of the federal Center for Public Monitoring of the ONF on problems of ecology and forest protection, onf.ru. - Only lobbyists who oppose our environmental initiative are trying in every possible way to delay this process.

Looking ahead, I will say that the Irkutsk people did it. The long working meeting ended with nothing. A week later, Kuzma Aldarov planned to hold a meeting of the committee headed by him in order to formulate a draft decision of the AP session on this issue, but was forced to convene a second working meeting. It, alas, also passed in vain. And before the session, which would certainly support the public initiative and oblige the government of the Irkutsk region to create a “green shield” around Irkutsk, there were only a few days left, two of which were days off. The only answer that we managed to get with the help of lawyers at the second working meeting, Viktor Kondrashov categorically did not suit. It turned out that it was impossible to postpone the issue to the autumn session, as the Deputy Prime Minister wanted, “in order to prepare, determine the price of the issue and the area”, without violating the deadlines established by law for considering a documented public initiative, unless the initiators themselves abandon their own initiatives and will not officially revoke their documents that have been in the Legislative Assembly and the regional government for six months.

In vain, Sergey Apanovich was amazed at how the deputy chairman of the government explained his alleged support of the "green shield" as a "federal trend" in a letter to the chairman of the executive committee of the ONF. Real astonishment washed over him less than a day before the start of the 61st session.

Opening the meeting of the profile committee, Kuzma Aldarov, according to the tradition that has developed at the working meetings, first said the obligatory words that “objectively, everything is for the creation of a forest park zone of the city of Irkutsk.” And then he spoke about letters suddenly received addressed to the chairman of the Legislative Assembly Sergey Brilka, in which the mayor of the Shelekhovsky district Maxim Modin and the mayor of the Usolsky district Vitaly Matyukha, who supported the idea of ​​​​creating a "green shield" at working meetings, urgently changed their point of view and now consider the implementation of this initiative, partially affecting the territories of these regions, inappropriate. From a legal point of view, as one of the lawyers present said, when considering the issue at the session, this could emotionally affect one of the deputies, but not the general course of events. Another thing is the third letter, just as suddenly received from the chairman of the Public Chamber, with which he withdrew from the Legislative Assembly last year's protocol of public (public) hearings on the creation of a green belt (“green shield”) around Irkutsk. No document, no problem. At the session, to the satisfaction of the members of the regional government, there was nothing to consider. The problem went away at least until the fall. And by that time, there will be less expensive suburban lands around Irkutsk, not yet sold, not stolen, not converted into someone's private or corporate property, and not built up in any way.

The initiative to create "green shields" was the response of citizens to numerous violations of environmental legislation. Initially, it was planned to create an ecological belt only around Moscow. However, later they decided to extend the restrictions on cutting down trees around other large Russian cities, Timofeeva said.

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The adoption of the document is going with difficulties, the deputy noted. “This bill is being adopted according to a complicated procedure and in many ways contrary to it. Today we have many anti-lobbyists for environmental legislation who understand that this will put an end to many projects that we would like to do today around large cities,” she added.

There are more than enough reasons to worry about the environment. According to Timofeeva, in Ivanovo the territory of parks and forests has decreased by 30% over the past ten years. In Kemerovo, eight hectares of relict forest, the age of trees of which is from 90 to 100 years, have been given for felling with subsequent development. In the Leningrad region, the appointment of unreasonable sanitary cuttings could cause the destruction of more than 150 hectares of forest. Due to the fact that the All-Russian Popular Front intervened in time, a criminal case was initiated on the fact of an attempted theft of wood in the amount of 408 million rubles. And on the territory of the Moscow region, such cases are recorded regularly. “If today, as experts and environmentalists at all levels say, we do not take promptly necessary actions, then we will practically have nothing to breathe,” Timofeeva concluded.

In the Irkutsk region, according to environmentalists, the situation is critical. Deforestation has led to the fact that aquifers are being disturbed in some areas, said Sergey Apanovich, coordinator of the public monitoring group on ecology and forest protection at the regional headquarters of the ONF. “We turned to the governor of the Irkutsk region with the initiative to create the same “green shield” around Irkutsk with a radius of 50 kilometers. You can call it whatever you like - what is needed to save the forests. under what pretext. We received an answer: the administration will impose a moratorium on any cuttings around the city for a period of three years. But this does not suit us. We, following the principle of colleagues from the ONF of the Moscow Region, will be forced to turn to the population in order to conduct a sociological survey and get the support of the population. After all, the situation is really critical, and we will fight to the end - after all, these are the "green lungs" of our cities," Apanovich said in an interview with Days.Ru.

Over 100,000 people voted for the draft law, published on the website of the Public Russian Initiative. On January 21, deputies of the United Russia faction, representing the ONF, submitted a document to the State Duma. The bill provides for fines of up to half a million rubles for cutting down and burning forests in the forest park green belt. It is proposed to amend the Code of Administrative Offenses by which a fine for citizens in the amount of five thousand rubles is imposed for violating the procedure for felling forest plantations in the green belt. For officials and individual entrepreneurs, it will be from 20 thousand to 40 thousand rubles, for legal entities - from 250 thousand to 500 thousand rubles.

At the media forum, which took place on April 7, representatives of the ONF addressed the President of Russia. They drew the attention of Vladimir Putin to the problem of "green lungs". The president promised to definitely return to this problem and check why the bill was "stuck somewhere under the carpet." According to Timofeeva, today this is a project of a huge number of people, experts in the field of forestry and environmental legislation, which was supported by thousands of citizens.

2017 will be the year of ecology for Russia. Almost 240 billion rubles will be allocated for nature conservation measures. One of the important events of the year is the entry into force on January 1 of the law on the "green shield". We tell you who invented it and what it will change.

What is a forest park green belt ("green shield")?

A forest park green belt is a zone with a limited nature management regime or other economic activity. These are the territories on which forests are located, territories of the green fund within the boundaries of an urban (as it is written in the law) settlement, which are adjacent to these forests or form a single natural ecological system with them. In other words, these are forests in cities and around cities.

Why will they be created?

The drafters of the law are a group of deputies from the All-Russian Popular Front. Vladimir Gutenev, one of the authors, State Duma deputy and representative of the ONF, explained the need to create such zones.

The main reason is to stop deforestation around settlements. This problem is especially acute in Moscow and the Moscow region, where industrial facilities and cottage settlements often appear in place of the forest.

Will the new law help?

Greenpeace Russia spoke negatively about the new status for forests. According to the organization's ecologists, this "does not increase the conservation status of forests and in the future may legalize the theft of forest lands."

“From the point of view of the conservation of forests and other natural areas surrounding large cities, the law is a meaningless empty shell. It does not increase the conservation status of these forests at all, except for increasing some fines. But it can facilitate the removal of forest areas from state ownership and from general use of citizens for various purposes not related to the existence of the forest," said the head of the forestry department of Greenpeace Russia Alexei Yaroshenko back in the summer.

The topic is very important for Russia. And not only for Moscow and St. Petersburg, but also for the Altai Territory. However, there are two points here.

Firstly, almost all ecologically valuable forest areas already have a status that implies special treatment. In any case, in the Altai Territory. These are green areas, forest park areas. Another thing is that this status does not help them much. In such forests, wood is harvested, often under the guise of sanitary and care cuttings.

According to a well-known ecologist, coordinator of the public monitoring group on ecology and forest protection of the regional department of the ONF, Aleksey Gribkov, there is no need to give any territory the status of a "green shield" yet, because the new norm in the law will not be stricter than it is now.

"Legislation in this version does not yet allow protecting forests. It is necessary to eliminate gaps in the law, first of all, regarding existing green and forest park zones," he said in an interview with a correspondent.

Secondly, the very idea of ​​a "green shield" has not yet been fully developed. For example, the law states that "it is forbidden to create capital construction facilities (except for healthcare facilities, education, tourism, recreation and sports) in this territory." That is, both a cafe and a sauna can appear there? And what then is the point of protecting forests if the construction of such facilities is allowed there?

In addition, the law allows the withdrawal of land plots with the status of "green shield", but on condition that the territory will be compensated by another plot. But the mechanism is not spelled out in detail. That is, it is not forbidden, say, to withdraw a piece of tape pine forest for some kind of economic needs, compensating for it with a piece of a field without a single tree.

What can not be done in such territories?

Most importantly, clear felling is prohibited here.

It is also prohibited by law in such areas:

• use toxic chemicals
• dispose of production and consumption waste of the first and third classes,
• place objects that adversely affect nature,
• create objects not related to forest infrastructure,
• conduct the development of mineral deposits (except for mineral waters, therapeutic mud),
• create capital construction facilities (except for hydraulic structures, communication and power lines, pipelines, roads, health care facilities, education, tourism, recreation and sports),
• build livestock and poultry complexes,
• place cattle burial grounds, warehouses of pesticides and mineral fertilizers.

Which areas cannot become "green shields"?

• Polluted, having places of disposal of production and consumption waste;
• Owning land plots for capital construction or on which such construction is already underway, except for healthcare facilities, education, tourism and recreation;
• Reserved for state and municipal needs;
• If an agreement on the development of a built-up area has been concluded in relation to them;
• If the territory, according to territorial planning documents, is intended to accommodate objects of federal, regional or local significance;
• Other conditions prescribed by law.

Who can initiate the granting of such a status to the territory?

This can be done by non-profit organizations, state authorities or local governments. To do this, they need to apply with a reasoned petition for the creation of a forest park green belt to the public chamber of the corresponding region.

The OP has 30 days to hold hearings. If the initiative is approved on them, it will go to the legislative body of the corresponding region. If the parliament makes such a decision, officials will have 180 days to set the boundaries of the forested park zone.