The largest nature reserve in Crimea may be destroyed
The Crimean Nature Reserve, which recently received the status of a national park, may be dismembered and destroyed. Journalist Natalya Dremova, a journalist from the publication “Arguments and Facts - Crimea”, reports this in her article, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
According to Dremova, the management of the park, which is transferred to the subordination of the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation, has prepared a draft of the so-called “zoning” of the reserve.
“40% of the territory, according to this plan, will be used for economic and recreational activities. That is, these are places where a person’s foot will not just set foot: these lands are supposed to be developed!
Thus, in the proposed recreational zone, it is planned to equip numerous trails to provide mass tourism, tent camps, roads for jeeping and ATVs. The number of tourist routes is expected to increase to 35, and automobile routes to 9.
The project involves the implementation of 45 types of tourism, including those that have nothing to do with environmental education and upbringing. For example, yoga tours, corporate event tours, adventure tourism, amateur fishing, festivals and celebrations, volleyball and football.
The economic territory for this project in the national park should occupy 7 thousand hectares. Seven thousand! Wealthy state farms had such land,” writes Dremova.
The journalist emphasizes that zoning involves the division of protected areas, which will be separated from each other: “The worst thing about the project of transforming the reserve into a national park is that economic and recreational zones are not located somewhere on the edge. No, they are scattered throughout the reserve and actually “dismember” it, turning specially protected and reserved areas into islands. And in such isolates it is in no way possible to preserve rare species of plants and animals.”
Dremova notes that the Crimean authorities will no longer be able to solve the problem - Moscow must do this: “In the current situation, it is impossible to appeal to the Crimean authorities: this is no longer their area of responsibility. The organization that manages the current Crimean National Park is the representative office of the Presidential Administration in the Republic of Crimea. She has a subordinate enterprise, and in it there is a branch without a legal entity, which is called “Crimean Nature Reserve”.
The area of the protected area of the Crimean National Park is 34 hectares, it occupies the territory in the center of the main ridge of the Crimean Mountains, including the highest massifs of the peninsula, from where many rivers originate. There are about 563 mountain springs and springs, more than 300 plant species grow here (many are in the Red Book), and many animals live here (including the main population of deer in Crimea).
“The Crimean Nature Reserve, together with the Yalta Nature Reserve, is the basis for the well-being of Crimea, first of all, its water security,” recalls Dremova.
“What I was so afraid of is happening - if this project is accepted, then the fragile Crimean nature will come to an end. And it’s very bad and sad that this is happening in Russian Crimea. Let’s save the nature of our peninsula,” famous Crimean journalist Yulia Verbitskaya calls for uniting.
Users also intend to draw attention to the Crimean problem of Russian President Vladimir Putin. “Question for 20.6 on Direct Line.” Maybe it will help,” writes journalist Rustam Korsovetsky.
His colleague Olga Safronova recalls that they had already tried to implement a similar project, but then the reaction of social activists did not allow it: “Several years ago this project was already discussed. Then they also wrote about it, and everything seemed to calm down. And lo and behold, it surfaced again. You can’t be silent!”
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