Events and Announcements

The issue of deforestation, particularly in the Carpathian region, in 2016 became top issue for environmental articles, radio and TV programs. EPL invites journalists, community activists, and everyone who is interested in the topic of forest management to the round table “Sustainable forest management as a way to fight corruption”.

On 22-23 October, International charitable organization “Environment-People-Law” (EPL) and “Ekomah” NGO ( Luhansk) organize volunteers to visit the regional landscape park (RLP) “Kramatorskyi” (Donetsk region).

EPL environmentalists perceive the recent developments on the Kerch Peninsula as a threat of man-made disaster. Until recently, the Kerch Peninsula remained the least developed part of Crimea. Mostly it consists of natural steppe areas, cliffs and other natural landscapes, richly filled with monuments of history and archeology, as well as the culture of Crimean…

On October 7, 2016, the session of the Sumy Regional Council decided to establish an administrative body in the regional landscape park “Seymskyi.” A communal enterprise will serve as administrative body.

On 4 October 2016, the Parliament of Ukraine adopted the Law of Ukraine “On Environmental Impact Assessment” and the Law of Ukraine “On Strategic Environmental Assessment”.

PRESS RELEASE

On 22 September 2016, the EU Delegation to Ukraine in partnership with the international charitable organisation “Environment-People-Law” will hold media briefing to mark the launch of the EU-funded project “Ukrainian civil society for European style waste management”. The project aims to showcase ecologically sound alternatives to waste landfilling and accompany the Ukrainian government in its…

Environment-People-Law advocates the creation of electronic system that is an expanded version of PRTR and will connect (1) PRTR reporting (2) other emissions monitoring, (3) data from permits and, in future, (4) EIA and (4) enforcement actions. The integrated approach will make the resulting electronic register much more useful for decision-making by government and its…

We continue presenting results of EPL studies of lost protected areas. As we reported earlier, in most regions of Ukraine we found a large number of areas and objects of natural reserve fund (NRF), which were canceled for various reasons. Instead, a pleasant exception was the Poltava region.

As of 01.01.2016, in Kherson region the Nature Reserve Fund consists of 79 objects of protected areas with total area of 272,700.20 hectares. These include the biosphere reserves “Askania Nova” and “Black Sea”, national natural parks “Dzharylhatskyi” and “Azov-Sivash” and other objects.