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. Besides the impacts that EPL has assessed, it was revealed that around 10-20…
14 September 2015 EPL continues its studies of the state of environment in the Crimea after annexation and has revealed a number of gaps. There are new threats to the most valuable objects of protected areas. At the moment of annexation of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea by the Russian Federation, there were 196 objects…
International charitable organization “Environment-People-Law” (EPL) continues studying the impact of military actions in Eastern Ukraine on the environment. EPL environmentalists study the changes in the environment, in particular in soils, concentrations of mobile forms of heavy metals that can migrate into plants and human organisms, and unsolvable forms of metals. With the help of volunteers…
Despite the fact that there are a number of important legal tools for environmental protection, environment continues to be a silent victim of military conflicts in the whole world2. Since 1999, the UN Environmental Program has conducted more than twenty post-conflict assessments of environment determining the main influence of the war. «Having analyzed reports of…
International charitable organization “Environment-People-Law” organized examination of the most valuable protected areas of Donetsk region affected by military actions. The examination was conducted in the national natural park “Sviati hory”, the regional landscape park “Slovianskyi kurort” and the natural reserve “Kreydiana flora” located on the outskirts of Sloviansk town. The experts examined the scale of…