The Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources, Ruslan Strilets, said that the State Agency for Nature Reserves is being created in Ukraine – a separate body for the management of the nature reserve fund, the business card of which will be the Emerald Way.
After the war, it will be a network of reserves, sanctuaries, natural monuments, etc., which are united by a single infrastructure, the Ministry of the Environment reports on Facebook.
Strilets said this on Thursday, October 6, during the discussion "Application of circular economy principles to sustainable tourism" within the framework of the IX Ministerial Conference "Environment for Europe".
In addition to the plans of the Ministry of Environment for future development, Strilets spoke about the destruction of the Ukrainian conservation fund by Russian troops.
"The enemy is burning and using our natural resources as a military base," the minister said.
He noted that currently 20% of nature conservation areas are affected by the war. In addition, 8 nature reserves and 10 national parks are occupied, and almost 10 million hectares of the Emerald Network are under threat of destruction. Red Book species of plants and animals also suffer from hostilities.
"The Ministry of the Environment not only did not give up its pre-war plans in the field of nature protection. Now they are even more ambitious," said Strilets.
Earlier, EcoPolitic wrote, that the Minister of Environment Protection and Natural Resources Ruslan Strilets, said that today the fate of the entire European continent is laid in Ukraine, in particular, in the field of environmental policy.
As EcoPolitic previously reported, eco-inspectors calculated 15.63 billion hryvnias of damage to atmospheric air due to fires on the territory of the Kinburn Peninsula , the area of protected objects of which is 68% of the entire territory.
