Open main menu
Home
Random
Recent changes
Special pages
Community portal
Preferences
About Wikipedia
Disclaimers
Incubator escapee wiki
Search
User menu
Talk
Dark mode
Contributions
Create account
Log in
Editing
Freedom to roam
(section)
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
====Belarus==== Article 13 of Section I of the [[Constitution of Belarus]] guarantees that all forest and farm land is publicly owned.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://ncpi.gov.by/constsud/rus/constitution.html |title=Constitution of Belarus |publisher=Government of Belarus |language=ru |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080703154525/http://ncpi.gov.by/constsud/rus/constitution.html |archive-date=July 3, 2008}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.law.by/work/EnglPortal.nsf/6e1a652fbefce34ac2256d910056d559/d93bc51590cf7f49c2256dc0004601db?OpenDocument |title=Constitution of Belarus, English Translation |publisher=Government of Belarus, National Legal Internet Portal of the Republic of Belarus |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080928141450/http://law.by/work/EnglPortal.nsf/6e1a652fbefce34ac2256d910056d559/d93bc51590cf7f49c2256dc0004601db?OpenDocument |archive-date=September 28, 2008}}</ref> Forty percent of the country's territory is covered by forest,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://hdr.undp.org/en/reports/nationalreports/europethecis/belarus/belarus_2005_en.pdf |title=Belarus: Window of Opportunity (see Table 15, page 66) |publisher=United Nations}}</ref> and approximately the same amount devoted to agriculture.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://tourism.tut.by/cgi-bin/countries.cgi?id=83 |title=Belarus Tourist Information |publisher=Belarus Portal tut.by |language=ru |access-date=2008-08-27 |archive-date=2008-09-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080916143617/http://tourism.tut.by/cgi-bin/countries.cgi?id=83 |url-status=dead }}</ref> According to the Forest Code (Article 13)<ref>{{Cite web|title=Section II: The Individual, Society, and the State|url=http://belarus.net/costitut/constitution_e.htm|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19980209153314/http://belarus.net/costitut/constitution_e.htm|archive-date=1998-02-09|website=belarus.net}}</ref> "citizens have the right to freely stay in the forest and collect wild fruits, berries, nuts, mushrooms, other food, forest resources and medicinal plants to meet their own needs."<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.pravo.by/webnpa/text.asp?RN=HK0000420 |title=Forest Code of Belarus |publisher=Government of Belarus |language=ru}}</ref>
Edit summary
(Briefly describe your changes)
By publishing changes, you agree to the
Terms of Use
, and you irrevocably agree to release your contribution under the
CC BY-SA 4.0 License
and the
GFDL
. You agree that a hyperlink or URL is sufficient attribution under the Creative Commons license.
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)