Practice Relating to Rule 43. Application of General Principles on the Conduct of Hostilities to the Natural Environment
The Czech Republic’s Criminal Code (1961), as amended in 1999, in a part entitled “Crimes against humanity”, provides for the punishment of “a commander who, contrary to the provisions of international law on means and methods of warfare, intentionally: … (d) destroys or damages … a place internationally-recognized with regard to the protection of nature”.