Genesis of Legislation on Liability for Environmental Crimes

The scientific article emphasizes that the world’s biological diversity is constantly declining. As a result, both international and national levels adopt regulatory legal acts aimed at preserving such diversity. Moreover, special attention paid to protection of with help criminal law. Thus, regulation above social relations implies specificity, because their cannot be carried out other branches law, an encroachment on them poses public danger. It emphasized domestic legislator searching for optimal mechanisms protecting environment from encroachments, as evidenced by changes made Ch. 26 Criminal Code Russian Federation. At same time, drawn fact law ecology developed gradually in