The emissions and explosions of anti-ship mines, the powerful noise of UAVs, and fires caused by military operations are destroying the balance in the ecosystems of the Tuzly Estuaries National Nature Park every day.
This was stated by Ivan Rusev, an ecologist and head of the research department of this environmental institution, on his Facebook page.
He reminded that the Tuzly Estuaries remain the only unoccupied marine national park in the Azov-Black Sea region of Ukraine.
According to the ecologist, the recent flights of shagbills over the Tuzly Estuaries frightened flamingos. The birds were forced to change their permanent location in the national park.
Ivan Rusev says that the fire, which covered about 10 hectares on the sandy spoil in the protected zone of the national park, destroyed unique plant communities of the sandy spoil, and with them – the birds' nesting places. The nests of rare Red Book ducks, such as the Neros, and other small birds were destroyed.
Photo: facebook.com/ivan.rusev.215723.
Tens of thousands of shells, insects, and small mouse-like rodents were destroyed along with them.
Photo: facebook.com/ivan.rusev.215723.
“It is almost impossible to get to such places for fire vehicles, the fire was stopped by the cool air of the night, and the protected landscape turned into a black desert,” the scientist sadly stated.
Earlier, EcoPolitic reported that the Black Sea continues to bring fuel oil from the Russian tankers that sank in December last year to the shore. We also published a photo of a bird's nest with fiber optics woven into it. It was found by Azov fighters in the Toretsk sector.
