Events and Announcements

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.

Architects of the Institute of general plan of Kyiv offered to donate part of the national park “Holosiyivskyi” for making additional entrance to the future shopping mall.

EPL made the second raid to the forest areas of Western Ukraine to inspect forest logging and its legitimacy. This time we examined management of forestry in the national nature park “Hutsulshchyna” and the state enterprise “Kutsky forestry.”

Recently we learnt about the intention to commit massive violations of the environmental law. In particular, a group of unknown people who call themselves “Excursion auto, motorcycle tours in the Carpathians” plan for the period of 20-25 August 2016 to conduct a massive motorcycle race in the Carpathian Biosphere Reserve (Reserve Marmarosky array: Berlebashka mountan,…

In July 2016, EPL made first trips to the Carpathian region in order to reveal violations in the forestry management. The first object of the survey was Burkutska forestry of the state enterprise “Verhovynsky forestry” (Ivano-Frankivsk region Verkhovyna district) where we analyzed the situation with forest logging and its impact on mountain ecosystems.

Just to remind that recently there was made a decision about the need to wothdraw the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the territory of the National Park “Oleshkivski Sands”1, where since October 2015 unauthorized military exercises had taken place.2 After the beginning of the armed conflict this decision was the first important step of the…