CRIMINAL LAW PROTECTION OF PLANT LIFE

Introduction: the article aims to contribute to the ongoing study of criminal-legal protection of flora, which plays a vital role in the natural environment. Materials and Methods: the research was informed by a range of methodological approaches, including historical, system-structural, logical, historical-legal, formal-legal, comparative-legal and others. Results: the results of the research indicate that there are a number of features of criminal-legal protection of plant life that are worthy of further consideration. In particular, the provisions of Chapter 26 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation regulating responsibility for environmental offences were studied in detail. Discussion and Conclusions: it is proposed that criminal-legal protection of bogs and peat bogs, and administrative prejudice in the established responsibility for some environmental offences, should be provided for.