& shy; The damaged shelterbelt covers an area of more than 100 mu. & shy; Recently, a village near Daping Reclamation District, Sanshan town, Fuqing city reported to the reporter that hundreds of mu of coastal protective forests on four river forests in the reclamation area were cut down and destroyed by people, and the scene was shocking. & shy; On the afternoon of the day before yesterday, the reporter came to four river woodlands in Daping reclamation area. It is near the seaside, and its geographical location is relatively partial. Usually, few people come here. The reporter saw that a large area of Shelterbelt was sawed off and piles of trees were piled up on the ground. The diameter of the largest tree was nearly 30cm. The above villagers said: “These Casuarina equisetifolia have been planted for more than ten years. It is a natural barrier against sea breeze in several nearby villages such as White Crane and Haiyao. It is also a coastal shelter forest under national key protection.” & shy; The villager also told the reporter that some nearby villagers said that the hundreds of mu of coastal shelter forest might have been cut down by someone from a nearby shrimp farm, but they had no direct evidence, just a guess. The villagers said: “There are about 4,000 mu of coastal shelterbelt in Dabei reclamation area, which was illegally cut down nearly 1/40 this time. We hope that relevant departments plus-sized law enforcement, arrest these people and replant the shelterbelt.” & shy; Later, the reporter came to the Sanshan town government. A person in charge of the town’s forestry station told the reporter that last Monday, they patrolled to four rivers and woodlands in Daban reclamation area and found that the shelterbelt had been cut down. When they approached, the felling workers had run out, they immediately pulled down an excavator and a chain saw on the scene and reported the matter to the forest branch of Fuqing public security bureau. & shy; The relevant person in charge of Forest branch of Fuqing public security bureau told the reporter that at 4 pm on March 28, after they received the report from the government staff of Sanshan town, quickly organized the forest public security and forestry law enforcement brigade personnel to rush to four river woodlands in Daban reclamation area, and detained one excavator, one chain saw and three two-wheeled motorcycles at the scene of the crime with the Sanshan town government, currently, efforts are being made to track down illegal personnel. On the evening of April 2, Sanshan police station seized a truck carrying wood forests during security patrol. The goods were Casuarina equisetifolia (tree species) and were now detained in Sanshan town government. & shy; The person in charge also said that after judicial appraisal, the forestry engineer preliminarily calculated that the area of the destroyed coastal protective forest was more than 100 mu, and the destroyed forest was Casuarina equisetifolia, which was a coastal protective forest area under key protection, the volume of destroyed trees is more than 300 cubic meters, and the economic value is more than 100,000 yuan. & shy; The person in charge said that according to regulations, deliberately destroying more than 100 cubic meters of forests or other trees or more than 5,000 young trees or worth more than 50,000 yuan is a particularly important case. “This is the largest case of coastal shelterbelt destruction in Fuqing city in recent decades. It is a particularly important case. The Forest Public Security is fully organizing investigations and will severely punish illegal personnel according to law to effectively protect coastal shelterbelt.” (Reporter Lin Anzhen Wen/photo)
