An entertainment complex and houses can be built on Galerny Island in Kyiv.
They planned to create a natural monument Orchid Forest on this territory, reports the Kyiv Ecological and Cultural Center (KEСC) on Facebook.
Environmentalists said that the developer LLC Galerna Zatoka appealed to the Kyiv City Council not to make a decision on the creation of a protected area due to the planned construction.
They emphasized that at the meeting of the environmental commission of the Kyiv City Council on March 8, 2023, when it was planned to discuss the draft decision on the creation of the protected Orchid Forest, the member of the ecological commission and deputy of the Kyiv City Council Yuliya Lymar blocked the issue.
It is noted that at the meeting, a protocol assignment was adopted to the Department of Ecology and Natural Resources of the KMDA regarding the development of the Procedure for the Mechanism for the Creation of Nature Reserve Fund Objects.
"Prior to the development of this Procedure, the commission did not consider new draft decisions of the Kyiv City Council on PZF objects," the message says.
Environmentalists suggested that the possible purpose of this was to create artificial and illegal obstacles to the creation of new protected areas. And while the creation of the natural monument Orchid Forest is blocked, the project to develop the Galerny Island is moving forward.
"We suspect that deputy Lymar was specially sent by developers to the environmental commission in order to block the passage of draft decisions on the creation of new protected areas. We assume that she monitored attempts to create new protected objects and, together with developers, blocked them," the authors emphasized.
It is noted that Lymar also delayed the creation of the protected object Lake Vyrlytsia.
The message added that KECC has started a campaign to recall Lymar from the membership of the Kyiv City Council's Standing Commission on Environmental Policy.
Earlier, EcoPolitic wrote, that the Kyiv City Council refused to create the National Memorial Military Cemetery in the Lysa Gora tract, which was opposed by Kyiv residents, a number of ecologists, activists, and the military.
As EcoPolitic previously reported, the Supreme Court of Ukraine made a decision regarding the return to the Kyiv community of 17 protected plots on Zhukov Island, which they wanted to build on.
