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EPL environmentalists perceive the recent developments on the Kerch Peninsula as a threat of man-made disaster. Until recently, the Kerch Peninsula remained the least developed part of Crimea. Mostly it consists of natural steppe areas, cliffs and other natural landscapes, richly filled with monuments of history and archeology, as well as the culture of Crimean…

On October 7, 2016, the session of the Sumy Regional Council decided to establish an administrative body in the regional landscape park “Seymskyi.” A communal enterprise will serve as administrative body. The regional landscape park “Seymskyi” is Ukraine’s largest protected area of local importance. Its area is 98,857.9 hectares. The main area is covered with…

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. On August 31, 2016, there was a session of Architecture and Town Planning Council at the Department of Urban Planning and Architecture of the Kyiv city state administration,…

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,…

As we reported earlier1, after appeal of 200 nature conservationists2, on July 12, 2016 the Ministry of Environment of Ukraine hosted the interdepartmental meeting devoted to unauthorized use by the Ukrainian Army of the territory of the National Park “Oleshkivski sands.” As a result of the discussion the participants found common ground and have agreed…

On April 12, in the city of Kherson there was held a press conference devoted to the arbitrary activities-of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the territory of the nature reserve fund of Kherson region. The event brought together employees of institutions of the nature reserves and nature protection activists. All biosphere reserves and national…

Today environmentalists of International charitable organization “Environment-People-Law” and the WWF Danube-Carpathian Programme Petro Testov and Anatoliy Pavelko together with civil activists from Lviv explored territories of the local forest reserve “Chortova skelia” located within jurisdiction of Lviv municipality. According to the plan of wood cutting with the aim to form and treat the forest released…

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”. Back in 2006 by an illegal decision made by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine the…

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. One of the key objectives of the Forum is discussion of the Work program for countries of Eastern…