At S.Toraighyrov Pavlodar State University at a meeting of the Environment Council discussed measures taken for the prevention of forestry violations and forest preservation.

The discussion was attended by representatives of local executive and law enforcement bodies, territorial subdivisions of the authorized body, forest protection agencies, public organizations and mass media.

Thus, the total area of the state forest fund of Pavlodar region is 478.7 ths. ha.

Illegal logging has acquired an industrial scale in recent years. Only in 2015 in the region registered 167 facts of illegal logging in the amount of 16.9 ths. cu. m. for amount of 815.3 million tenge.

On January 1, 2016 by order of the Committee of Forestry and Wildlife, the Ministry of Agriculture introduced a moratorium on all types of logging in the territory of Reservation.