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Chornobyl biosphere reserve to be created in Ukraine
05.08.2014 17:48 "Agro Perspectiva" (Kyiv) —
The Ukrainian Ministry of Environment and Natural Resource is going to finalize work on creating of the Chornobyl biosphere reserve in short term on the basis of the alienation zone, Government Portal says referring to the Minister of Environment and Natural Resource Andrii Mokhnyk report on a briefing at the House of the Government on August 5.
As to him, Chornobyl biosphere reserve is suggested to be comprised of the largest part of the alienation zone’s territory, which is around 230 thousand ha. The area will be divided into several functional zones: the nature reserve, a buffer zone and the zone of anthropogenic landscapes. In the process of grounding the division into the functional zones there were accounted nature conditions, location and peculiarities of nature landscape. There were singled out especially precious land areas with the view to preservation and study. At this it is not planned to include into the preserve industrial objects with the total area of over 32 thousand hectares.
As to report, in the framework of the future international prospect it is planned to create a transborder Ukrainian-Belarusian biosphere reservoir with an area of around 500 thousand hectares. It will also include Drevlyansky Nature Reserve (Zhytomyr region) and the Polesie State Radiation and Ecological Reserve (the Republic of Belarus).
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