News stories
September 26, 2008. Moscow. Today, on the eve of the Tiger Day that will be celebrated on September 28, 58 NGO representatives from 26 countries address the Russian authorities and UN structures with the demand to create urgently the Federal specially protected area in the Bikin River basin (Primorsky Kray) - a place of habitat of the Amur tiger. Upper and middle parts of the Bikin River valley are home to over 10% of the Far Eastern population of this great cat. The clear-cuttings, mining and other activities that inevitably result in the degradation of valuable natural resources are nevertheless not forbidden there. In last years there have been numerous efforts to acquire permission to clear-cut local woods or launch other industrial projects in this area.
June 20, 2008. Angarsk-Irkutsk-Moscow-St.Petersburg. Today representatives of the Baikal Ecological Wave, the Baikal Movement, Bellona, Greenpeace Russia, Ecodefense appealed to the Parliament of Australia with the demand not to ratify the treaty that will open way for the large-scale export of the Australian uranium to Russia.
The Russian Federation — January, 29th, 2008 scientists and representatives of the public ecological organisations have addressed to the President, the Government, the General Public prosecutor of the Russian Federation, to the Governor of Krasnodar territory with the requirement to stop immediately the destruction of the unique natural complex of the «Bolshoi Utrish» Game Preserve located near the Anapa Resort in Krasnodarsky krai.
December, 5 2007. Moscow. Greenpeace today called on the Russian and Ukrainian governments to urge oil clean-up efforts on the coasts and seabed of Azov and Black seas polluted with fuel oil after a fierce storm in the Kerch Strait on November 11th wrecked seven ships, including an oil tanker. To avoid future ecological disasters Greenpeace suggested both countries to work out a joint oil spill prevention and response program.
November 26th, 2007. Greenpeace volunteers cleaned up part of the oil spill along the Azov Sea shore last weekend. More than 20 kilometers of the coastline here are still polluted with oil. However, the clean-up operation here yet has not even been started.
November 23, 2007. Krasnodar Region. “We don’t need volunteers!” the head of the crisis headquarters on Chushka Spit and Krasnodar Vice-governor Aleksander Ivanov said yesterday to Greenpeace representative Dmitry Artamonov.
November 22, 2007. Moscow. Greenpeace Russia, WWF Russia and the Russian Bird Conservation Union today asked the Head of the Federal Security Service (FSS) Nikolai Patrushev to give their teams access to the Southern part of Chushka Spit to help in clean-up works. The access to the Spit was restricted Sunday by the Krasnodar Region FSS Department.
13 November, 2007. Greenpeace response team arrived Monday to the southern Russia to estimate the scale of the environmental disaster in the Kerch Strait after a fierce storm sank seven ships, including an oil tanker. According to local people, a 50km length of coastline appears to have been polluted with oil. Thousands of oil-slicked seabirds lay on the seashore unable to fly. Around 100 soldiers are deployed to remove the oil from the shore.
November 12, 2007. The consequences of shipwrecks in the Azov and Black Seas that happened last weekend because of the strong storm, can surely be called now a local-scale environmental disaster. About 7 thousand tons of sulfur and 2 thousand tons of heavy oil from damaged and sunk ships ran out into the sea. Experts estimate that one fourth of all dumped heavy oil, which is about 300 tons, has fallen to the sea bottom.
Chelyabinsk, 28 September, 2007 – On the eve of the 50th anniversary of the world’s second largest radiation accident, at Mayak in the Southern Urals, Greenpeace Russia has released a special report about the ongoing impacts of the Mayak tragedy. On the anniversary itself, Greenpeace will join local people in a protest rally in the nearby city of Chelyabinsk, to call for the relocation of those still living in contaminated areas and an end to Russia’s plans to import and reprocess even more foreign nuclear waste at the Mayak site.
