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[Sally Furniss]

The Procuracy of Crimea autonomy demands from the authorities to deal with eggs

Crimean Prosecutor Vladimir Boiko made the presentation to the Council of Ministers of autonomy with the requirement to bring order in poultry farming.

As reported in the press service of the Crimean prosecutor's office, violations of sanitary, veterinary and environmental standards identified in poultry farms Simferopolskogo, Krasnogvardeyskogo, Nizhnegorskogo areas of autonomy. Prosecutor checking poultry farms were organized after SBU information at the enterprise "South Holding" discovered two million rotten eggs. The audit, whose results Simferopolskaya Interregional environmental prosecutors filed two criminal cases, it was determined that the products stored factory violations, including without complying with the temperature, and did not meet safety indicators, that is not passed the necessary vetobsledovany. Not only decaying eggs - more than 300 kg of poultry slaughtered in the territory rot factories, 3 tons of poultry bones and waste no time were recycled. Manure pits at the plant as it should not equipped, as a consequence resulting from the storage of waste contaminated by more than 10 hectares of agricultural land than the damage occurs in the amount of 45 thousand UAH.

Such violations detected at poultry farms Simferopolskogo, Krasnogvardeyskogo, Nizhnegorskogo areas, and it is the latter two have for several consecutive years become hotbeds of the outbreak of avian influenza. Including this fact and the Prosecutor's Office drew the attention of the Government of Crimea, which under the law obliged to ensure control over the issuance for the realization of benign products of animal origin, protect the population against common to human and animal diseases.

JV "Holding South" (p. Perovo, Simferopol district ARC) specializes in poultry, in the Crimea is the largest producer of commercial eggs.

http://obkom.net.ua/news/2008-08-04/1730.shtml

 

[Sally Furniss]

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Dnipro red from toxins

Lethal "cocktail" of iron, manganese and ammonia caused the deaths of nearly 100 tons of fish in the lower reaches of the river

Ecological disaster, which killed fish near Kahovskoy GES, has resulted in the color of water in the Dnieper even off the coast of Kiev changed habitual coloring with yellow-brown to straw-brown. This color, according to experts, shows the contents of hundred excess iron ions in the water.


A heat is not as if

Vice slaughtered this mixture of industrial enterprises Zaporozhye and Dnepropetrovsk, merged in a huge quantity of untreated industrial waste-ore mining, metallurgical and chemical production in the Dnieper. While environmentalists and SES are taking water samples for analysis and can not anyone specifically charged with destruction of fish resources. And violators meanwhile merged with impunity in the Dnieper another batch of lethal cocktail: a new red spot the size of a 3 kilometer near the village of Bolshaya Lepetikha Kahovskogo near the reservoir. Qarase and gobies instantly surfaced belly Above, the spot has been slow to seize more and more territory, and officials began to think how they justify themselves. Indeed, because of the rainy and relatively cool summer, to write off all the heat and craftiness brown-green algae - not succeed ...

Poisoned over separation

-- Already, it is clear that occurred within Hersonschiny largest environmental disaster in the history of the lower Dnieper - told "Gazeta ..." ecologist Michael Podgayny - in the waters of Ukraine's biggest rivers hit by about a million tons of toxic chemicals. All this chemistry separation over. Because of this, the content of iron ions in the Dnieper almost everywhere higher than normal more than a hundred times.

According to him, the enormous volume of water discharge points color. Despite the enormous dilution of poisons on its way from the top of the reservoir up to the Dnipro River delta, even in the area of water Goloy Quay, raised from the depths of several meters, has a clear pink shade.

Toxic heavy metal compounds that make up the industrial waste water, have a high density and usually accumulate in the bottom of the reservoir. But at the time of passing through the dam hydroelectric power station, happened complete mixing of deep and surface layers. In such a situation, fish and other aquatic organisms, it was simply nowhere to children, and that led to their total loss.

With seagulls do not sklevali, homeless doedyat

-- Divers have checked the bottom and the Dnieper. And saw the terrible picture - at the bottom of a full-too full of dead Karen, ustilayuschego something solid ground where the carpet - complements the chief of state protection and reproduction of aquatic living resources Kherson region Bogdan Artyuschik - Dnieper water may be poisoned by rotting fish products and carcasses. After all, to collect all the fish is not possible because of the magnitude of the disaster.

Uta accidental discharge of industrial effluents that number is virtually impossible. This means that officials, covering the owners of the company, withheld from the leadership of the country and neighbouring areas are not even the magnitude, but the fact of ecological catastrophe. What is in itself a crime. It seems that the culprits involved a cover operation and leadership Kherson region. Difficult to see how this over a week to contrive could not determine the chemical composition of impurities in the water distinctly red. Even at the end of the century before the analysis would be done within at most three or four days.

So far no data on deaths of animals - near the birds, beasts (musk-rat, raccoon dogs), turtles, snakes. Including those currently on a massive quantity of dead fish devouring. In any case, the danger is in itself an expansion of thousands of tons of dead organisms.

And then with smoked gobies dushkom ...

Kherson Oblast State Administration sent a telegram to the Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko to establish a government commission to determine the causes of death of aquatic resources in the lower Dnieper and Kahovskom Reservoir.

In addition, the deputy chairman of regional state administration Anatoly Osinny noted that to avoid new environmental disaster need to increase water discharges Kahovskoy GES with 450-500 cubic meters to 1200-1300 cubic meters per second. But still the norm at GES is not fulfilled.

While power enquire who is to blame in the tragedy, and develops activities to overcome its consequences, people calmly bathed in the Dnieper, despite the change in colour of water, will be pleased to buy smoked pickled karasey gobies yes. It seems we already pritupilos sense of danger due to the fact that black stripe in the life of our country has become one continuous. We already do not be surprised and not scared .

http://www.pk.kiev.ua/country/2008/07/30/090556.html

 

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At the southern Urals was allowed to shoot marmot
And to extend the deadline for the autumn hunting
Irina GOLLAY - 08.08.2008
Soon ohotiki will shotguns.

In the Chelyabinsk region to extend the deadline for the autumn hunting: it will begin August 23 and will end only on 15 November. U kurgantsev season opens two weeks later, and by October 31 they had already zachehlyat their guns. Or to rush to us! The more so that our power to legitimize shooting new animals - marmots.

These large (up to 15 kilograms) animal hunters attracted its Skin, similar to tenderness in chicken fat and valuable. They say it heals burns, bronchus and lung disease, can rejuvenate the skin.

Until a few innovations relate to the rules of hunting. Thus, at the bear and hoofed now allowed to go only with huntsmen. Accepted the amendment officials believe that in such a way to eradicate poaching. But prices for trips and licenses this fall grow up. Hunting should increase their salaries sluzhivym and find money to produce animal feed and filling machines.

Incidentally, veterinarians advise hunters do vaccinated their dogs against rabies. The current summer, the disease hits all records - since early August has three cases of infection. In the meantime, you can avian influenza mahnut hand: in our area it does not. But in the Orenburg region and found the virus from African swine plague. So if you note somewhere in the land corpse wild boar, keep away from the carcasses!


also chart of which and how many animals may be hunted

http://chel.kp.ru/daily/24143/360631/