Zaporizhzhia region — latest ecology news
![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
![Activists will clean up the shallow Dnipro in Khortytsia in Zaporizhzhia](https://ecopolitic.com.ua/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/shutterstock_1776394223-500x334.jpg)
100 volunteers will be able to join the first eco-action
![Dolphins are dying en masse on the protected spit in the Sea of Azov](https://ecopolitic.com.ua/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/306512447_628324555527410_1264080133642951189_n-477x400.jpeg)
The dolphins probably died in the area of Byryuchy Island
![Dozens of rusty barrels were removed from the bottom of the shallow Dnieper in Zaporizhzhia. Photo](https://ecopolitic.com.ua/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/DE875B98-99F7-4B01-AAC9-7679D2DCA7F2-500x313.jpeg)
The barrels were removed according to the protocol order of the head of the city