Zaporizhzhia region — latest ecology news
![An arsonist who poisoned neighbors with acrid smoke was fined in Zaporizhzhia](https://ecopolitic.com.ua/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/F8F80DF4-5294-4CCF-A0CE-624488741458-500x313.jpeg)
Pali faces a fine of 20 to 80 tax-free minimum incomes
![Black loggers tried to bribe police in Zaporizhzhia](https://ecopolitic.com.ua/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/71D6A09D-96CA-4EF5-8D05-A812A428A06C-500x313.jpeg)
The figure offered to "solve the issue" for money
![Smoke from artisanal furnaces for burning rubber poisoned the air in Zaporizhzhia](https://ecopolitic.com.ua/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/F88FA3B0-0680-4738-A5FF-6988469843F1-500x313.jpeg)
Furnaces work without any dust and gas cleaning equipment
![The occupied Melitopol is drowning in garbage: the Russians are doing nothing](https://ecopolitic.com.ua/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/1C72BE42-E93E-47E4-BBA6-54614A230A25-500x313.jpeg)
In a year and a half of occupation, Melitopol was turned into a complete landfill
![Polluters of the Zaporizhzhia Region paid 232 million in eco-taxes for 2023](https://ecopolitic.com.ua/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/EB7B8002-FA36-4AF7-92B2-7A45DB531181-500x313.jpeg)
In 2021, polluting enterprises of the region paid 434.5 million hryvnias in environmental taxes
![Residents of Zaporizhzhia demand reduction of industrial air pollution](https://ecopolitic.com.ua/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/95CDB20D-C337-44ED-A6D6-6C3EA703C21B-500x313.jpeg)
During adverse weather conditions, industrial emissions are not dispersed and people are forced to breathe poisonous air
![The occupiers began to destroy the largest river of the Azov region](https://ecopolitic.com.ua/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/2023-09-19-11.42.22-500x332.jpg)
This can lead to an increase in the salinity of the water in the Sea of Azov
![In Zaporozhye, an entrepreneur poisons the air with black smoke from a makeshift stove](https://ecopolitic.com.ua/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/C15355D3-11E8-4D34-A04E-18FEE46BF998-500x313.jpeg)
Law enforcement officers, government representatives and ecologists were not allowed to enter the enterprise
![Activists removed 15 tons of garbage from the washed-up shores of Khortytsia](https://ecopolitic.com.ua/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/A6C8EB54-BA9F-407A-8A2D-ABE452B1035D-500x313.jpeg)
About 200 people took part in eco-actions for cleaning
![The bottom of the Kakhovsky Reservoir was turned into a green meadow](https://ecopolitic.com.ua/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/F54E60BA-15AE-457F-918A-73825AD4D63A-500x313.jpeg)
Damage to the environment from the Russians' detonation of the Kakhovskaya HPP reached $1.5 billion
![Ecological damage from Russian aggression reached 12 billion UAH in Zaporizhzhia](https://ecopolitic.com.ua/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/B4E3B6E1-D389-48A8-9A57-5DBA29DF2ED1-500x313.jpeg)
Improper disposal of military equipment and weapons poses a threat to the environment
![500 kg of tires and bottles were removed from the washed-up Khortytsia. Photo](https://ecopolitic.com.ua/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/B1B0CBA6-DB98-4F7F-9C48-2BCA1337A455-500x313.jpeg)
About 200 hectares of beach area, which used to be a bottom, was formed on Khortytsia