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Air polluting emissions
(thsd. tons)

	2000	2005	2006	2007	2008
Total air polluting emissions	1341	1418	1561	1531	1597
of which:
from stationary sources	388	404	423	408	396
from mobile sources	953	1014	1138	1123	1201
Captured (neutralized) pollutants from stationary sources,	2709	2902	2725	2596	2541

Protection and use of water resources
(mln. m³)

	2000	2005	2006	2007	2008
Water abstraction from natural sources for use	1837	1706	1674	1618	1566
Water consumption (use)	1700	1600	1546	1485	1410
Recirculating and successive water use	6155	6369	6522	6349	6697
Discharge of waste water purified according to standards into surface water bodies	883	846	817	760	709
Discharge of industrial and municipal waste water	25	10	9	9	11

Reforestation and afforestation

(hectares)

	2000	2005	2006	2007	2008
Total	38318	51471	56217	54988	50005
of which:
forest planting and sowing	33025	45031	48662	48069	43134
assisting natural forest regeneration and preservation of young growth	5293	6440	7555	6919	6871

Allowable cut and actual main fellings

(thsd. m³ of merchantable timber)

	2000	2005	2006	2007	2008
Allowable cut	6970	7189	7297	7711	7975
Actual fellings	4303	5213	5447	6126	5465

Nature reserves and national parks

(as of January 1, 2009)

	Region	Year of foun-dation	Total area, thsd. ha	Number of inhabiting species
	Region	Year of foun-dation	Total area, thsd. ha	animals	birds	plants
Nature reserves
Berezinsky Biosphere	Vitebsk	1925	80,9	56	231	2062
Polessky State Radiation and Ecological	Gomel	1988	216,6	27	203	858
National parks
Belovezhskaya Puscha	Brest and Grodno	1939	152,2	59	262	2295
Pripyatsky	Gomel	1969	82,3	51	251	1930
Braslavskie Ozera (Braslav Lakes)	Vitebsk	1995	69,1	15	189	718
Narochansky	Minsk	1999	94,0	49	185	1033

Area of hunting grounds

(end of year; mln. ha)

	2000	2005	2006	2007	2008
Total	16,9	16,8	16,7	16,5	16,5
of which under game husbandry management	13,3	15,4	15,3	12,7	6,3

Generation, utilization and neutralization
of industrial wastes in organisations

(thsd. tons)

	2000	2005	2006	2007
Wastes generated	23260	34782	33455	37956
Wastes utilized	3569	7325	6984	8447
Wastes disposed	19776	27767	26767	30121