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431.Signing of Memorandum on creation of an integrated electronic system of environmental protection governance (2017-03-09)
... On 30 March 2016, at the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources of Ukraine there was the ceremony of signing the Memorandum on cooperation for creation of integrated electronic system of environmental protection governance and rational use of natural resources that was concluded among the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources of Ukraine, Lviv department... ...
432.Considerations concerning lawfulness of refusal of Lviv municipal enterprise “Lvivvodokanal” to disclose information about sources of smell in Lviv (2017-03-09)
... In August 2012, Lviv city NGO “Lviv press-club” referring to the Law of Ukraine “On Access to Public Information” sent two information requests to Lviv municipal enterprise “Lvivvodokanal” asking about enterprises which concluded agreements with Lvivvodokanal about joining the municipal sewage system and additional purification of norm-exceeding waste waters, amounts of these waters and costs... ...
433.EPL: Kyiv City State Administration is looking for investors for criminal proceedings (2017-03-09)
... Kyiv City State Administration released the notification that it plans reconstruction of 23 parks in Kyiv. dreamkyiv.com/kmda-planuye-rekonstruyuvaty-23-kyyivskyh-parky/ In particular, there are plans to make in parks cobbled paths, navigation, bicycle infrastructure, benches, trash receptacles, lighting, Wi-Fi, drinking sources, video cameras and emergency help buttons. Budget funds are planned to be used to finance installation of... ...
434.In Ternopil region the newly created nature monument is destroyed (2017-03-09)
... In Ternopil region, local population destroy a hill with rare plants by extracting sand and ignoring the fact that it is the newly created nature monument. The nature monument of local importance called “Dzherelna” was created on public lands of Kremenets City Council by the decision of Ternopil Regional Council of 9 April 2015 #... ...
435.World Wetlands Day (2017-03-09)
... World Wetlands Day was celebrated for the first time in 1997 to mark the date of the signing of the Convention on Wetlands of international importance (hereinafter – the Ramsar Convention). The Ramsar Convention was signed on 2 February 1971 in the city Ramsar (Iran) and is focused on environments important for habitats of water... ...
436.Destroying Protected Landscape «Tarutynskyi Step»:Ukrainian Army Not Ready For NATO Standards (2017-03-09)
... Press-Release 06.11.2016 For two weeks following the order of the Ministry of Defense farmers illegally have plowed almost half of thenature reserve «Tarutynskyi Step» area in Odesa region. According to the scientists, this area is one of the last most valuable steppe areas in Ukraine... ...
437.UNEA got interested in the environmental impact of war in the East of Ukraine (2017-03-09)
... 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... ...
438.Ramsar sites of the Crimea can suffer from military bases (2017-03-09)
... 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... ...
439.On the sites of shell explosions near Donetsk EPL environmentalists revealed the whole Mendeleev periodic table of elements (2017-03-09)
... 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... ...
440.EPL experts: the damage caused to the environment of eastern Ukraine can be calculated using economic methods (2017-03-09)
... 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... ...
