Events and Announcements

The war in eastern Ukraine causes massive abuse of the soil cover. Shell explosions, passage of heavy equipment and construction of various fortifications lead to considerable damage to soil and vegetation both on natural areas and in the agricultural land.

The draft law # 0078 of 3 February 2016 was supported by 233 people’s deputies of the Verkhovna Rada.

The Balkan peninsular has been in the heart of clash of interests of various countries of West and East. The whole history of the Balkans is the conflict of national, ethnic and religious factors.

One of the most loud land scandals during the last two years is construction in Chernechyi forest in Kyiv region. On the lands of the National University of Biological Resources and Nature Use of Ukraine, 9.8 ha of the ancient oak-wood was allocated for construction of elite cottages by including part of the forest to…

UNEA and the World Bank experts have counted that 24 month of urgent environmental recovery will cost $ 30 millions. As experts do not have access to the entire territory for the large-scale assessment, it is expected that this sum will grow.

World Wetlands Day was celebrated for the first time in 1997 to mark the date of the signing of the Convention on Wetlands of international importance (hereinafter – the Ramsar Convention). The Ramsar Convention was signed on 2 February 1971 in the city Ramsar (Iran) and is focused on environments important for habitats of water…

Green city zones are often victims of human activities: they are ruined through tree cutting, erection of buildings, limited access to them and drastic decrease of their territories. As a result, residential areas that are already smoggy even more lack clean and fresh air, people have nowhere to have some rest or just go for…

Not to be struck by a bullet does not mean to stay healthy and unharmed because the air during shelling also contains danger. 1 kg of explosives produces several cubic meters of toxic gases (SO2, NOx, CO) that also contain under-acidified organic compounds. Without protection of breathing organs such gases may cause serious diseases that…

Recently there have been numerous complaints from local residents of Obolon district about the air pollution. In the morning and at evenings it is particularly difficult to breath, people get cough, and one can smell some chemicals in the air. The investigation of the causes revealed that several industrial enterprises of the district work without…

In November 2015, “Oscar” dolphinarium was opened in Truskavets. Before the opening of the dolphinarium International charitable organization “Environment-People-Law” filed a complaint to the State Environmental Inspectorate in Lviv region with a request to check whether functioning of the dolphinarium and conditions in which dolphins are kept comply with legal norms and with a request…