The head of the National Forest Agency, Besik Amiranashvili, introduced the main directions of the reform in the forest sector to the State Commissioner of Shida Kartli, Simon Guledan, and the representatives of the local self-government.
The National Forest Agency of Georgia shared glimpses of the event on its official Facebook Page on Friday, March 13, 2026. The Georgian Agency also shared a small note about the event along with its glimpses.
The main goal of the forest reform planned by the Ministry of Environment and Agriculture, along with strengthening forest monitoring and control, is to improve forest protection and forest use practices.
At the working meeting, Carlo Amirgulashvili, the head of the Ministry’s Forest Policy Department, spoke about the activities planned within the framework of the reform. It was noted that the function of physical protection for the National Forest Agency is being restored.
The addition of 401 forest rangers is being considered, reducing the protected area per ranger from 10-15 thousand hectares to an average of 2,000 hectares.
“Within the framework of the forest reform, the salaries of the employees of the National Forest Agency have increased, the number of forest guards and foresters is planned to increase, the scale of degraded forests must be increasing every year, the forest inventory works are ongoing continuously, which together ensures the quantitative and qualitative indicators of the country’s forests” To improve the Ebi, to promote the profession and to promote forest education, rural additional “Creation of jobs”, – said the head of the National Forest Agency, Besik Amiranashvili.
The head of the National Forest Agency introduced the new head of the Shida Kartli Forest Service, Mikheil Barnov. Mikheil Barnov has many years of experience working in public service.
