However, relatively remotely located villages in Georgia do not have gas supply. As a result, the demand for fuelwood is high and exceeds the annual increment of forests growing near these villages. The problem is aggravated by the lack of awareness about the ecological and socioeconomic consequences of illegal logging. There are official data on the volumes of resources of Caucasian fir and snowdrops licensed for harvesting (300 tonnes of Caucasian fir cones, 13 million snowdrop bulbs), however, there is no reliable information about the real volumes of collection of these products.