Eco-inspectors calculated almost 5 billion UAH of damage to the ecosystem of the Kamianska Sich National Nature Park as a result of large-scale invasion.
They monitored and recorded damage in the national park, the State Environmental Inspection of the Southern District reported on Facebook.
It is noted that eco-inspectors joined the work of the commission to determine the damage caused to the environment as a result of an emergency situation and/or armed aggression and hostilities during martial law in the territory of the Kherson region under the regional military administration.
"The commission drew up acts of establishing the facts of damage and losses to the territories and objects of the nature reserve fund as a result of armed aggression," the message says.
The press service said that all the materials were handed over to the Department of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources of the HOVA and the Kherson Regional Prosecutor's Office.
Kamyanska Sich was under occupation for 8 months. During this time, Russian troops looted the national park, destroyed the administration building and burned 635 hectares of valuable areas with red-listed plants. A large part of the national park was mined. Also, its territory is mutilated by the passage of heavy equipment, trenches of the occupiers, felling of trees, and ruptures from explosions. Kamianska Sich is subjected to systematic shelling.
After the occupiers blew up the Kakhovskaya HPP dam, the national park suffered catastrophic shallowing. Park employees seeded the bottom of the former reservoir with clover, alfalfa and other plants to prevent dust storms and the spread of alien species.
Earlier, EcoPolitic wrote, that eco-activists surveyed the territory of the de-occupied Kamianska Sich national nature park in the Kherson region, through which the front line passed twice.
As EcoPolitic previously reported, in the Kherson region due to the actions of the occupiers about 300 hectares of steppe burned in the unique biosphere reserve "Askania-Nova".
