The council on Friday sent letters to the Croatian Agriculture and Forestry Ministry, the National Minorities' Council, the county police department, the mission of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and the media to inform them of the illegal logging in privately owned forests in the municipality of Vocin.
The council chairman, Stanisa Zarkovic, said the devastation was done only in the Serb-owned forests and that the logging was performed without the knowledge of the owners,
In this way, 50 hectares of the forests have been so far devastated and thousands of cubic metres of wood have been illegally cut.
Zarkovic said that although it was a well known fact, nobody from the local authorities had so far done anything to stop such activities.
Zarkovic added that local police and administrative authorities "bravely keep silent" about that as it is the property owned by Serbs "but they do not know that Croatia and its forestry resources are again being devastate as many times before".