Events and Announcements

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…

State enterprise “Energorynok” released on its web-site overview of its results for 2015. The 2015 analysis for each energy source reagrding amounts and costs of electrical power bought by the state enterprise “Energorynok” from producers of electrical power and sold to energy suppliers shows that the share of small hydro power plants in amounts of…

A news release of the Press center of the Security Service of Ukraine states that employees of the Security Service of Ukraine stooped illegal forest logging in the natural reserve “Lisova perlyna” located in Luhansk region.

For the Committee on Environmental Policy, Nature Use and Liquidation of Consequences of Chornobyl Catastrophe in the Supreme Council of Ukraine:

The challenges faced by Ukraine in the sphere of environmental protection are the following:

The web site of the Supreme Council of Ukraine published “Remarks of the Chief legal department of the Supreme Council of Ukraine” regarding the draft law on extraction and realization of amber #1351-1. According to these remarks, the law has many drawbacks and will not contribute to solution of the problem of illegal extraction and realization of amber.

International Union for Conservation of Nature started the Regional Conservation Forum for Europe, North and Central Asia that will take place from 14 till 16 December in Helsinki, Finland. EPL participates in the Forum as IUCN member.

On 29 July 2015, the Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee addressed the Ministry of Environment of Ukraine with a proposal to provide their feedback to facts and accusations expressed by EPL regarding the shalegas agreements within five months.

On the International Animal Rights Day observed on 10 December, we would like to draw your attention to animals that are currently in the territory of the antiterrorist operation (ATO) and for over two years have been killed as a result of military actions.