In the south of the Kyiv region, near the village of Yemchikha, in the Obukhiv district, a 26-hectare reserve of local importance, Dubovy Yar, was created.
This reserve is one of the richest in the region for rare steppe species, reports the public organization "Ukrainian Nature Conservation Group" on Facebook.
Eco-activists emphasized that the creation of objects of the nature reserve fund is primarily necessary where populations of rare species have still been preserved. Otherwise, it is impossible to save the territories from plowing or building.
It is noted that, despite the historical name, the reserve will protect the typchakovo-kovily steppe, which corresponds to the type of settlements E1.2 of Resolution 4 of the Berne Convention.
The authors emphasized that the reserve contains populations of many rare plants from the Red Book of Ukraine, namely:
- hairy and feathery weevils;
- spring hollyhock;
- reticulated crocus;
- astragalus woolly-flowered.
Eco-activists added that regionally rare species for the Kyiv region, which are found literally in 1-2 places, also grow on the new protected territory.
"Hundreds of no less interesting places still remain unprotected in various regions. They are destroyed by farmers plowing the steppe slopes, or foresters who, in order to increase the formal statistics of forest cover, plant alien species of trees in them, they emphasized. – We cannot afford to lose the last corners of wild nature that still remain unprotected.”
Earlire, EcoPolitic wrote, that the public figure Maksym Bakhmatov called to mark the dubious order of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources No. 308, which turned the protected area of the Holosiivsky forest in Kyiv into a farm.
As EcoPolitic previously reported, the Kyiv City Council refused to create a National Memorial Military Cemetery in the Lysa Gora tract, which was opposed by Kyiv residents, a number of ecologists, activists, and the military.
