Yevgeny Kuyvashev during his visit to Bogdanovichi city district on July 5 handed keys to six new UAZ Hunter SUVs to the department for the protection, control and regulation of the use of wildlife in the Sverdlovsk region. The vehicles are purchased at the expense of the regional budget and will be used to protect forests from black loggers and poachers.

"These are cross-country vehicles, and I'm sure they will allow you to strengthen the work on protecting the forest and fighting poachers. The service of the department employees often takes place in the conditions of chronic impassability. Now our inspectors will become more mobile, will strengthen the fight against poaching. New SUVs will serve municipalities, where there are many hunting grounds, a large area of ??forests, "Kuyvashev said..

In the Sverdlovsk Region there are 36 forest protection inspectors. Each specialist is responsible for monitoring the territories of 540 thousand hectares, in the north of the region, more. Inspectors daily travel around the subordinated areas and more often off-road, so it is not difficult to imagine what loads the machinery working in the department is experiencing. The function of inspectors includes not only the protection of forests, the fight against poachers, but also the feeding of wild animals. As recognized by the recipients of cars, off-road vehicles of domestic production are required to withstand heavy loads. New cars will operate in Achit, Nizhneserginsky, Krasnoufimsk, Turin and Bogdanovichi districts.

"In 2016, we asked Evgeny Kuyvashev to consider the possibility of updating the fleet of the department. The equipment available in the arsenal of inspectors on average in 1997 is already out of order, because it is necessary to work in difficult conditions. On the patency of equal new technology there.

This will ensure uninterrupted environmental protection of our service, "- said the director of the department Alexander Kuznetsov.

The last time oblast hunters received three new cars in 2013.

"I am glad that we are updating the car park in the year of ecology in Russia, when President Vladimir Putin instructed the regions to pay special attention to environmental protection. Thus, we are contributing to the protection of nature. Let these machines serve you for a long time and help you in your hard work, "said Evgeny Kuyvashev.