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“The investigation started on Thursday after receiving the notification,” Jurgina Jasiūnienė, a department spokesman, told BNS.
He also said that it is still difficult to name the damage caused, it will be calculated later.
The devastated wetland is located in the Laukesa I area, which is part of the European ecological network Natura 2000.
According to the management of the Viešvil dirección Nature Reserve, the cover of the swamp was destroyed by quads and the pines that had grown there were moved.
“It is unlikely that the Tauragė district has experienced such barbarism since the end of World War II … Huge damage has been done to nature,” the management told Facebook.
According to her, the last time the swamp was quadrupled by quads was recently, as the needles of the relocated pines were still green.
“It was seriously scratched that even the stickers came off the technique and remained in the swamp, the remnants of the tow rope remained,” the report says.
The management of the Viešvilė Nature Reserve, based on the stickers found, guesses who may have been the culprits.
Call for responsible behavior
In response to the incident in Tauragė district, the State Protected Area Service urges people to act responsibly and reminds them of natural processes.
“There are very different processes in the swamp than in the forest. Only small insectivorous plants, sunflowers, are found in high marshes,” the report says.
“The wetland ecosystem, compared to the forest, is much more sensitive to damage, and it is these large deposits of CO2 that we release when the wetland surface is damaged,” he said.
According to the service, a 1 meter layer of peat layer is formed in more than a thousand. years, the old forest is formed around 300 years.
“Both numbers are large, they far exceed human life expectancy, and both ecosystems are very important,” the agency said.
It claims that off-road entertainment such as quad biking destroys the swamp surface in an instant, as well as damaging forests, destroying dunes, and removing protected animal species – black grouse, lynx.
The swamp belongs to the company
The management of the Viešvil gestión nature reserve states that the destroyed protected wetland is located on land belonging to the peat extraction company Klasmann-Deilmann Lauk extracciónsa.
However, according to Albert Stanislovasitis, head of the State Service for Protected Areas, the mere fact that the area belongs to the Natura 2000 network does not mean that it cannot belong to peat extraction companies.
Furthermore, he said, the areas may have belonged to companies before they were protected.
The territories of the Natura 2000 network in Lithuania appeared after the country became a member of the European Union.
A. Stanislovaitis also stated that the fact that the swamp belongs to the company does not mean that it operates there.
BNS was unable to contact Kazimieras Kaminskas, director of Klasmann-Deilmann Laukėsa.
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