Events and Announcements

A week ago, a meeting of human rights defenders and eco-activists from various European countries took place in Strasbourg. There was a discussion of the ways of advocating for the earliest possible adoption of the draft protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights on enshrining the right to a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable…

  On October 8, 2023, the Law of Ukraine “On the National Pollutant Release and Transfer Register” entered into force. The environmental community had been fighting for the creation of such a register in Ukraine for twenty years, and EPL had to initiate the case at the international level. Today we have an approved legal…

Humanity can no longer avoid, ignore or neglect the impact of climate change and environmental degradation on human rights, decent living conditions, economic growth and employment. Our common future is extremely dependent on whether we put health and the environment first. This reality was recognized by the UN General Assembly (UNGA) in a unanimous decision…

Numerous activists who periodically visited this area in Zakarpattia, cleaned up garbage, and at the same time repeatedly recorded violations by the non-governmental organization “Life of Trees” of the terms of the agreement with the state enterprise “Khust Forestry Experimental Enterprise“. The activists observed littering of the territory, removal of the top layer of soil,…

The draft law 9516: the road to hell is paved with good intentions… or how the cancellation of requirements for EIA, clearcut sanitary logging and reduction of the powers of the Ministry of Environment will contribute to “effective management of forests on the basis of the principles of handling forestry close to nature, adapted to climate…

Consequences of blowing up the Kakhovskaya HPP for the ecosystems of southern Ukraine Walking along the bottom of the former reservoir, we saw thousands of shells from dead molluscs. They were scattered everywhere, among them lay the dried skeletons of crayfish, and sometimes there were remains of fish. Frogs croaked in the remaining lakes, surely,…

“Kakhovka Platform” calls on the government to reconsider its intentions The civil society coalition “Kakhovka Platform” appealed to the Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal with a letter of appeal regarding the government’s approval of the experimental project to rebuild the Kakhovka HPP. “The blowing up of the Kakhovka HPP dam by the Russian occupiers…

On July 3, 2023, the Supreme Court issued a ruling regarding legality of the approval of the detailed plan “Yaroslavna” in the Shchaslyvtseve village council of the Henichesk district of the Kherson region (case No. 540/86/20). The essence of the case was that the detailed plan of a part of the territory of the Shchaslyvtseve…

Staff of “Desnyansko-Starohutskyi” National Nature Park won the International Ranger Award from the International Union for Conservation of Nature. This is recognition at the global level of many years of persistent and hard work! Why was this park awarded? Because staff of the park not only protect nature with power of their hearts but also…

  For many years, residents of the village of Zalistsi in the Ternopil region have been watching the growing use of pesticides and agrochemicals of dubious quality by local farmers. EPL team also got involved in solving this issue. We have already repeatedly talked about the development of this case on our information resources: http://surl.li/jkhhk,…