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Environment
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The Ukrainian Serengeti: Photo Essay
24 Apr 2015 by Dimiter Kenarov / No Comments
Askania-Nova, in southern Ukraine, is the oldest steppe reserve in the world. Home to some of the last remaining patches of virgin steppe and a variety of wild animals, it is now threatened by war.
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The Ukrainian Serengeti
24 Apr 2015 by Dimiter Kenarov / No Comments
In war-torn Ukraine, the world’s oldest steppe reserve – home to zebras, buffaloes and wildebeests – fights for survival.
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Interview
11 Jan 2015 by Dimiter Kenarov / No Comments
Interview for East-Central Europe Past and Present
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A Failed Soviet Irrigation Project Brings Eco-apocalypse to SW Ukraine
29 Dec 2014 by Dimiter Kenarov / No Comments
In 1976 it looked like a good idea: divert the waters of the Danube into a salt-water lagoon on Ukraine’s Black Sea coast. But the result has been a human and environmental disaster on an epic scale.
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Ukraine’s Water Crisis
03 Dec 2014 by Dimiter Kenarov / No Comments
Dimiter Kenarov talks on Australian National Radio (ABC) about the Black Sea’s unfolding environmental crisis.
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Protecting Ukraine’s Dniester Delta
07 Nov 2014 by Dimiter Kenarov / No Comments
One of the great European rivers, the Dniester has been heavily exploited in the past century and today faces numerous environmental threats. One man has taken up the task of saving it.
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Ukraine’s Dead Sea
04 Nov 2014 by Dimiter Kenarov / No Comments
Kuyalnik Estuary is a large brackish lake on the outskirts of Odessa, Ukraine, and home to one of the country’s oldest sanatoriums. Today it is on the brink of environmental disaster.
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Is This Part of Ukraine on the Brink of Ecological Disaster?
28 Oct 2014 by Dimiter Kenarov / No Comments
Climate change is destroying Odessa’s famed Kuyalnik Estuary, where health tourists and war refugees live side by side.
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Greening the Revolution – Ukrainian Youth Joins Fight for Nature
21 Oct 2014 by Dimiter Kenarov / No Comments
With 300,000 hectares of forests, fields and steppes damaged by fire, the war in Ukraine has done huge damage to the country’s environment. But there has been an upside: a new green spirit is taking root.
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Ukraine – Now the War Is to Rescue Threatened Nature
01 Oct 2014 by Dimiter Kenarov / No Comments
Ukraine’s Priazovskii National Park epitomises the problems faced by the world’s natural areas. And that’s not to mention the war.
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