The Forest Agency recorded 6,930 incidents of illegal logging, which together comprised 1.2 million cubic meters of timber. The total area of forest in these regions is 289 million hectares, which is about 25% of Russia's forested land (1.2 billion hectares). Extrapolating the losses suffered by Rosleskhoz in these regions to the country's entire timber reserves, the government loses 72 billion rubles ($2.7 billion) every year, and the volume of timber lost to illegal logging is 9.6 million cubic meters (6.4 million trees). In order to comprehend the magnitude of these losses, let us imagine that every Russian citizen undertakes to compensate for them by cutting back on pages wasted while printing. Remembering the Soviet-era slogan that "20 kilograms of wasted paper would have been one tree saved," we can calculate that compensation for illegal logging activities would require the Russian population to save 128,000 tons of paper per year. Each person, on average, would thus be required to save 895 grams of paper products per year. This is the equivalent of four rolls of single-ply toilet paper (at an average of 227 grams per roll), which equals the average amount used by one person in three months.
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