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251.Policy brief on E-40 project and its threats for the environment (2021-02-17)
... The purpose of the brief is to analyze the current state of water management and planning of implementation of projects that have an impact on the environment that result from the failure to conduct environmental assessments in full, which complicates the decision-making process and creates conflict situations. Any activity planned in Ukraine must guarantee environmental... ...
252.Municipal forests of Ukraine (2021-02-16)
... About 13 % of the Ukrainian forests are constantly being used by public enterprises. Compared to state forests, the efficiency of forest use and protection of large municipal forests is lower, which is caused by a chain of legal, administrative, and economic problems. Most municipal enterprises manage forests inefficiently, numerously violating the law. As a... ...
253.Policy Brief On Environmental Reforms (2021-02-13)
... The sphere of environmental protection needs both horizontal (change of the old corrupt and inefficient system of ecological control to transparent, effective and operative; reform of legal liability for environmental violations in terms of the extension of administrative and economic sanctions and measures of a criminal nature to legal entities, revision of the composition of violations... ...
254.Press-release: «What is wrong with Stryiskyj forestry station» (2020-12-29)
... Ukrainian forests are national value and perform mainly water protective, protective, sanitary–hygienic, healing, recreational and other functions and are the source of securing the needs of society in forest resources (art. 1 of the Forest Code of Ukraine) Lacking transparency and ignoring the public State company «Stryiskyj forestry station» ignores requests and complaints, sent by... ...
255.Unaccounted forests of Ukraine (2020-09-23)
... In Ukraine, there is a large number of unaccounted forests on agricultural and undistributed lands. There is no exact data on the area of unaccounted forests, but some estimations indicate the scale of hundreds of thousands of hectares. Due to the intensification of agricultural production, unaccounted forests are being cut down on a massive scale,... ...
256.Protection of National park “Tuzlowski lymany” (2020-07-01)
... The essence of the case: preservation of specially valuable wetlands of international importance from construction and other illegal activities and legal support of the activities of National Park ” Tuzlowski lymany “. The essence of the problem: National park ” Tuzlowski lymany ” was created to protect specially valuable Ramsar lands – the system of... ...
257.5th June World Environment Day (2020-06-05)
... Today is World Environment Day (WED). This is the International Day of the United Nations. The idea behind celebrating this day is that everyone on the planet should think at least for a moment about the environment and his/her place in global processes. This is a special day for International charitable organization “Environment-People-Law”. We analyze... ...
258.Appeal of the Environmental Impact Assessment Conclusion for Polisske VES (2020-06-03)
... Case: Appeal of the Environmental Impact Assessment Conclusion for Polisske VES Region: Ukraine Case Overview: The Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) procedure for Polisske VES was conducted with significant violations of environmental legislation both by the business entity and the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources (referred to as the Ministry of Ecology as of... ...
259.Pump up your eco-activism with EPL and ELAW! (2020-04-08)
... International charitable organization Environment-People-Law (EPL), in collaboration with the Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide (ELAW), is launching a new project: “Strengthening Environmental Democracy in Ukraine,” funded by The United Nations Democracy Fund (UNDEF). The two-year project aims to strengthen public participation in environmental justice through three thematic platforms to address environmental issues in the following areas:... ...
260.Causes and threats of decline in the number of cetaceans in the Black and Azov Seas (2020-02-28)
... The Black Sea mammal fauna has three species of cetaceans, which are endemic subspecies – the harbour purpoise, the short-beaked common dolphin and the bottlenose dolphin. The undermining of the forage base, poaching, accidental deaths in fishing nets, invasions of alien species, epizootics, pollution of the sea led to the threat of extinction of the... ...
