Events and Announcements

On 24 February 2016, Lviv Circuit Administrative Court adopted a decision in EPL’s case against Mykolayiv regional administration of water resources and found unlawful refusal of the administration to provide EPL with information contained in water report (2-tp) as confidential information, and in this way confirmed openness of this information.

On 26 February 2016, the Ministry of Environment of Ukraine held the meeting on expansion of the Holosiyivskyi national natural park in Kyiv and creation of a new national natural park on the southern outskirts of Kyiv.

On 24 February, Environmental Commission of Kyiv municipality considered the issue of setting protective zones around the territory of the National natural park “Holosiyivskyi”.

We continue releasing results of studies of lost territories of protected areas conducted by environmentalists and volunteers of International charitable organization “Environment-People-Law”. The second part of the studies is about Ivano-Frankivsk region.

Can we avoid problems in administering city space instead of heroic overcoming them? On 26 February 2016 at 15.30, Lviv municipality will consider the issue of opening the new road for private transport. If this happens, there will be traffic jams, if such a decision is declined, there will be 1 thousand of unhappy car…

The Committee of the Verkhovna Rada on Environmental policy, Nature Use and Liquidation of Consequences of Chornobyl disaster issued a positive conclusion on the draft law 2009a “On Environmental Impact Assessment” that introduces an European model of preliminary assessment of environmental impact of various types of activities that cause adverse environmental impact.

Ecologists and volunteers of the ICO «Environment-People-Law» (EPL) started studying the losses of nature and reserve fund (NRF) in the regions of Ukraine. Besides present NRF areas, a lot of others were established not long time ago. Still for some reasons these sites were cancelled.

On 16 February 2016, Kyiv Appellate Economic Courts supported the decision of Economic Court of Kyiv by which EPL was refused the right to challenge state acts on the right to use lands by regional landscape park “Hranitno-stepove Pobuzhzhia”.

19 February is the World Day of Sea Mammals Protection. Ukraine has also habitats of mammals. There are three types of cetaceans in Ukrainian territorial waters – bottlenose dolphins, porpoises and azov dolphins. All of them are on the Red Species List of Ukraine and International agreement on the conservation of cetaceans.

Despite the fact that the Strategy of regional development of Ukraine envisages expansion of the network of protected areas, during 2015 only in 10 regions of Ukraine decisions about creation of protected areas were adopted. Moreover, one protected object was created by the Ordinance of the President of Ukraine.