In Cherkasy region, deputies of the oblarada supported the decision to create a botanical reserve in the "Dzendziry" tract in the floodplain of the Rotten Tikich River.
The territory of the new reserve reaches 18.6 hectares, where unique groups of meadow plants grow, listed in the Red Book of Ukraine, the environmental protection organization "Ukrainian Nature Conservation Group" reports on Facebook.
The message emphasized that eco-activists have prepared a request for the creation of a nature reserve in May 2021. After all, in the "Dzendziry" tract, the population of the chess grouse, listed in the Red Book of Ukraine, is growing. This is the only known locality of the chess grouse in the Cherkasy region.
"Flood meadows are increasingly being plowed up and drained, therefore the preservation of such a patch of almost wild nature is extremely valuable," the authors emphasized.
Eco-activists noted that the reserve should also protect valuable biotopes. Groupings of meadow vegetation on its territory represent the habitat type "E3.4 Wet or humid eutrophic and mesotrophic meadows", included in Resolution 4 of the Berne Convention. In such biotopes, other rare species of plants can grow, in particular, May and red cuckoos, marsh sedge, or scaly grasses.
They emphasized that the territory of the reserve is a typical habitat for amphibians and reptiles listed in the Bern Convention. In particular:
- common snake;
- terrapins;
- fragile spindles;
- prudkoy lizards;
- lake frogs;
- common toad;
- common ray (listed in the European Red List).
As EcoPolitic reported earlier, in Lviv region, regional council deputies supported the decision regarding creation of four botanical monuments nature of local importance.
