Quote from: Barrymore on May 06, 2017, 10:46:51 AM

Quote from: Masha Sha on May 06, 2017, 10:31:21 AM

Quote from: Barrymore on May 06, 2017, 09:58:16 AM

You cannot mine resources such barbaric methods. The price of amber is extracted in Ukraine is very low because illegal miners don't spend the money to restore destroyed forests. I think that the case for legalizing this business will lose their attractiveness.

5k$/kg not that bad. I don't see what's "barbaric" there. Very ecological in my view. And no need to restore, the trees do it by themselves!!!

The advantage of legalization is that it bring state security (no more gangs to pay for "protection" even if the mining is poor.

Anyway if you have more lucrative sources of income for the locals, they seem more than willing to work...

You don't understand the problem. The forest itself is not restored. First washed off the top layer of fertile soil. There is only the clay in which the forest grows. Second to seat the forest you need to plant seedlings and not seeds. When amber over These villages will die out and there will be a desert.

Wrong there are no monsoon in ukraine, the top soil is just moved around with water... look at the second picture. Those trees are true fighters (continental climate - hot then cold). How did those trees arrived in the first place?