3 more nature monuments created in Cherkasy region to protect Red Book plants

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Anna Velyka

Deputies of regional and local councils contributed to this

The Cherkasy Regional Council has created 3 new nature reserve fund (NRF) sites. These are the botanical natural monuments Kruty Yarky, Brodets Grouse, and Chervonyi Luki.

This was reported by the Kyiv Ecological and Cultural Center (KECC), based on the materials of which specialists from the Department of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Cherkasy Regional State Administration prepared a decision to create new protected areas.

The 6.17-hectare Kruty Yarky botanical natural monument is located on the territory of the Korsun-Shevchenkivska ATC near the village of Harbuzyn. The KECC ecologists found a ravine with several Red Data Book plants: reticulated saffron, hairy feather grass, sleeping grass, and mountainsweet.

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The botanical monuments of nature "Brodetskii grouse" and "Magic meadows" were created on the territory of the Katerynopil community on the Gnyliy Tikich river to protect the red book plant – the chess grouse.

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The other day EcoPolitic informed that 6 new protected objects were created in Zhytomyr Oblast.

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