"Anapa's beaches have never been as clean as they are today": What the Public Chamber thinks about the fuel oil disaster

Ecologist Zhora Kavanosyan He spoke about a meeting with members of the Russian Public Chamber, where he and his colleagues came to discuss the problems of Black Sea volunteers.

"They're making some downright comical statements like, 'Anapa's beaches have never been as clean as they are today.' That's not a joke. I heard that today. Meanwhile, my entire inbox is full of new discharges from last night's storm."- wrote Kavanosyan.

According to him, there are "absurd restrictions on filming at headquarters and on individual beaches," and environmentalists at the meeting proposed "removing all restrictions on publishing new emissions."

Kavanosyan said that after he published information about fuel oil emissions in Kabardinka on his channel, people searched for the video's author and attempted to de-anonymize him. The ecologist did not specify who exactly did this. "The current information policy only benefits a select group of officials," he noted.

Meanwhile, today, numerous photos and videos have emerged again illustrating the extraordinary "cleanliness" of the coastline in the area of ​​the environmental disaster. These are large, palm-sized, fuel oil spills in Veselovka, a lot of fuel oil fragments on the beach "Tortuga" in Vityazevo and in other places.

And most importantly, a lot oil-soaked and dead birds. Vityazevsky estuary — dead avocets, white herons, shovelers, coots, and mallards. At the Golden Bay beach in Anapa. found A dead, endangered loon and heron. "The endangered birds are dying like flies without receiving help," the volunteer said.

As NeMoskva previously wrote, begins Migration season. Up to 1 million migratory birds stop near Anapa during this time, many of them at risk of being contaminated with oil products.

Photo: Yuri Ozarovsky, Zhora Kavanosyan, “Nets, sieve, shovel”