Valuable steppe area on Dzharylhach Island, Kherson Oblast, on fire for 5 days now
The most valuable steppe area in Dzharylhach National Nature Park has been on fire for five days.
Source: Ukrainian Nature Conservation Group (UNCG)
Details: Activists stress that Dzharylhach has been under Russian occupation since the first days of the full-scale invasion.
Because of this, the special administration of the national park cannot ensure its preservation.
Quote: "The area burning for five days is a zone of absolute protection in the national park, where even human visits are restricted.
The main part of all steppe ecosystems of the island is concentrated here (the rest of the territory is swampy to varying degrees or is periodically flooded), and the population of all rare steppe animals on the island.
Also, the largest number of hoofed animals living in Dzharylhach is concentrated here.
This area received the protection status as a reserve back in 1974, 35 years before the creation of the national park."
More details: Nature conservationists are convinced that the fire, which no one is trying to put out, will cause "colossal losses" to the island's biodiversity.
Read more: Dzharylhach in chains: Russia's bid to destroy the nature reserve's unique ecosystem
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