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Watch the full ARTE documentary to learn more.Irina Mashinski. Oleg voices his concerns, ‘if one of the oil tankers ever had an accident, five million people in Kyiv would not have access to clean drinking water.’ Plans are in place for ships to transport oil to Mosyr, on the Pripyat in Belarus, and bring back oil-based products to Ukraine. Risks to the environment aren’t limited to the construction of the waterway. Oleg Lystopad, Ukrainian Journalist working with the Save Polesia coalitionĭredging within the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone as part of the E40 waterway already took place last year. That’s where they extract the drinking water that supplies Kyiv. There’s the risk that the radioactive materials lying in the Prypiat river valley will contaminate the water and then flow to Kyiv via this river here, the Dnipro.
Oleg Lystopad from the Save Polesia partnership spoke to the film crew about the risks that dredging along the Prypiat River for the construction of the E40 waterway poses in the Ukrainian part of Polesia: It would be the end of Polesia as we know it today.” Elleni Vendras, ‘Polesia – Wilderness without borders’ Project Leader with the Frankfurt Zoological Society “This would be disastrous for the wildlife here. This would be bad for people, but also for all life in Polesia. This would have a range of adverse impacts – water would flow out of the area faster, which could lead to droughts and drainage of crucial carbon-storing peatlands. It’s construction would come at the price of Polesia’s free-flowing rivers, some of the last on the continent, which would need to be dredged, straightened, deepened and dammed. Should the E40 waterway be constructed, it would be Europe’s longest waterway. We have to take care of the world we’ve been given.” Irina Kashpei, ‘Polesia – Wilderness without borders’ Scientific Co-ordinator with APB Birdlife – Belarus If we can preserve this region for both ourselves and future generations, we’re also maintaining the biodiversity that makes this area so unique. She has strong ties to this land and is dedicated to it’s protection:
Irina Kashpei, who coordinates the project’s scientific research, was born and raised in Polesia.
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To do this the ‘ Polesia – Wilderness without borders’ project, with funding from the Endangered Landscapes Programme and Arcadia – a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin, undertakes biodiversity monitoring and research to identify high value areas for wildlife and how to best connect these areas. Conservationists aim to protect this huge area by expanding the protected area network and advocating for its designation as UNESCO World Heritage Site. With a size of more than 180,000 km 2, it stretches across Poland, Belarus, Ukraine and Russia.
Polesia is Europe’s largest wetland wilderness. The E40 waterway is a multi-government, mega infrastructure plan to link the Baltic to the Black Sea, which threatens Polesia’s survival. This landscape also harbours large mammals such as brown bear, wolf and European bison. It is one of the most biodiverse and culturally rich areas of Europe and a paradise for bird lovers. The stunning footage shows why the landscape is so unique.
The German Television channel, ARTE, just released a brand-new documentary about the wonders of Polesia – Europe’s Amazon – and the threat of the E40 waterway that would destroy it.
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