Uncontrolled urge for logging
Summary
Date Reported: 21 Feb 2021
Location: Kazakhstan
Companies
Alsim Alarko Sanayi Tesisleri ve Ticaret A.S. - Client , Makyol Insaat Sanayi Turizm ve Ticaret A.S. - Client , SK Engineering and Construction - Client , Korea Expressway Corporation - Client , European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) - Sponsor , Bank of China - Sponsor , Dutch pension fund PGGM - Sponsor , Islamic Development Bank - Sponsor , Eurasian Development Bank - Sponsor , Bakad Investment and Operations LLP - ClientProjects
Astana Bypass Road Reconstruction Project (BAKAD) - SiteAffected
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
Public: ( Number unknown - Kazakhstan , Road-building , Gender not reported ) , Ecosystem: ( Number unknown - Kazakhstan , Road-building , Gender not reported )Issues
Clean, Healthy & Sustainable Environment , Personal HealthResponse
Response sought: Yes, by Business and Human Rights Resource Centre
Story containing response: (Find out more)
Source type: News outlet
10 February, 2021
...[A]nother large-scale logging is taking place near the city - along the Kuldzhinsky tract - for the construction of the Big Almaty Ring Road (BAKAD). Everything seems to be according to laws: there is permit for construction, and the forest pathology has been carried out, also the compensatory planting envisaged planting of 4752 young trees in place of the logged 1584. But the environmentalists claim that the real number of trees that will be cut is about 20 thousand. And compensatory planting should be in the amount of not one to three, but one to ten trees.
...[T]he forest is poetically called the "green lungs of the planet." It turns out that a couple of more such construction projects and the southern capital will be completely without lungs.