Technology of biometric accounting of wood was presented at the Ministry of Forestry of the Republic of Tatarstan
Within the framework of the meeting the work of the young Tyumen scientist Andrei Nikolaev was presented, which suggests combating illegal logging by the method of biometric registration of wood. At present, black loggers most often escape punishment because of a lack of evidence. Biometric accounting of wood practically does not leave poachers with chances to cover up tracks and escape punishment.
The scientific method can be compared with fingerprinting - identification of a person following fingerprints, annual tree rings are also unique as fingerprints. The ring pattern can be scanned from any part of the tree, including from the branch and even from the lumber. The stumps left by poachers are photographed, after which they are identified with spills of suspicious wood using a computer program.
"We can determine in which forestry the forest was felled - in Nizhnekamskiy, Sabinskiy, Mamadyshskiy, Aznakaevskiy or any other. Everyone knows that there are magnetic fields of the Earth, which greatly affect the annual rings of trees, on the basis of which the examination is done. It is not a problem to identify the involvement of this stump to this tree. For us, even a twig is evidence", said Islyam Zaynullov, Director of the FBU VNIILM branch of “Sibirskaya LOC”.