In the Kyiv region, in the Vasylkivska community, they want to build an asphalt plant near the newly created Kazkovy Yar nature reserve.
The editors of EcoPolitic were contacted by local activists who said that the most popular and picturesque part of the Myslyvski ugidya ravine, which was called the Fairy Yar in social networks, was not included in the nature protection zone. It is unsoldered.
The community noted that this area should become a sanitary zone for the new enterprise.
"They created the Fairy Yar nature reserve, where Fairy Yar itself did not enter," local activist Marysya Mak emphasized in the Facebook community "And what will we leave behind?".
Activists said they created this community to protect the unique nature of the ravine. In a short period of time, people gathered about a thousand signatures in support of the initiative. However, the local government does not help the community to defend its position.
In a letter to the head of the Kyiv Regional Council Nataliya Gunko and the director of the Department of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Kyiv Regional State Administration Hanna Tkach, Vasylkova Mayor Nataliya Balasynovych noted that the local government only supports the creation of safe and ecological industries.
Despite this, residents are convinced that "Hunting grounds" will fall into the pollution zone around the future plant. Currently, the site owner is starting the preparatory stage for the environmental impact assessment (EIA) procedure and has the right to own the site. However, recently the territory was seized, due to the fact that chernozem was illegally exported from there.
Such actions caused outrage among community members.
"Vasylkiv authorities have decided to build an ecologically dangerous plant on agricultural land, removing the fertile layer of soil. And there is no need to tell us that the plant will not harm the environment, – wrote user Iryna Ryabova. – Intentional removal of fertile soil is a crime! Scientists say that this is an element of ecocide – the deliberate destruction of Ukraine's ecosystem. No factory in the fertile fields of Ukraine!"
Earlier, EcoPolitic wrote, that on March 21, in the Obukhiv district, the 169-hectare Fairy Yar nature reserve was created in the Kyiv region, thanks in particular to the popularity of the place in social networks.
