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631.Lost objects and territories of nature reserve fund: Kherson region (2016-09-03)
... As of 01.01.2016, in Kherson region the Nature Reserve Fund consists of 79 objects of protected areas with total area of 272,700.20 hectares. These include the biosphere reserves “Askania Nova” and “Black Sea”, national natural parks “Dzharylhatskyi” and “Azov-Sivash” and other objects. In the Kherson region, as well as throughout Ukraine, the beginning of the... ...
632.A mall became a threat for the national natural park (video) (2016-09-01)
... 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. ...
633.A mall became a threat for the national natural park (video) (2016-08-31)
... 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,... ...
634.Air pollution threat hidden as research ‘presumes people are at home’: study (2016-08-30)
... Previous investigations fail to reveal impact of ‘world’s largest human health threat’ because they do not account for people’s movement, researchers say Smog covers midtown Manhattan in New York, an area with high PM2.5 levels. Photograph: Adam Rountree/AP ...
635.Victoria to permanently ban fracking and coal seam gas exploration (2016-08-30)
... Activists and farmers hail decision after inquiry into onshore unconventional gas received 1,600 submissions The Victorian government said the fracking ban ‘acknowledges that the risks involved outweigh any potential benefits’. Photograph: Tim Wimborne/Reuters ...
636.Climate Change Authority splits over ETS report commissioned by Coalition (2016-08-30)
... Exclusive: Top climate advisers divided over report, which recommends a policy that could break the political gridlock over climate change Climate Change Authority members Anthea Harris, Professor David Karoly and Professor Clive Hamilton in 2012. Karoly and Hamilton plan to issue a dissenting report on how the government can meet its emissions reduction target. Photograph:... ...
637.Russia uses Karadag nature reserve to replenish its budget (2016-08-25)
... As we reported earlier, last year the Crimean Natural Reserve was transferred to the ownership of the Presidential Administration of Russia as a private hunting site.i The next victim of the annexation became Karadag reserve. Assets of the reserve were transferred from ownership of the Crimea to federal ownership of the Russian Federation. The corresponding... ...
638.How locals steal wood (2016-08-25)
... EPL made the second raid to the forest areas of Western Ukraine to inspect forest logging and its legitimacy. This time we examined management of forestry in the national nature park “Hutsulshchyna” and the state enterprise “Kutsky forestry.” ...
639.How locals steal wood (2016-08-25)
... EPL made the second raid to the forest areas of Western Ukraine to inspect forest logging and its legitimacy. This time we examined management of forestry in the national nature park “Hutsulshchyna” and the state enterprise “Kutsky forestry.” In this area we have recorded a large number of illegal logging done by local people without... ...
640.A barbaric rally in the nature reserve has been stopped in time (2016-08-21)
... 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,... ...
