As a result of the flooding of the Kherson region after the destruction of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station, 48 objects of the natural reserve fund will be completely or partially affected, experts of the Ukrainian Environmental Group said..

According to their calculations, the total area of \u200b\u200bflooded protected areas may exceed 120,000 hectares.. Another 22 territories of the natural reserve fund in the flood zone are in the process of being created. At the same time, the territory of the Black Sea Biosphere Reserve has been protected since 1927, and it is part of the UNESCO world network of biosphere reserves..

In particular, the following territories of the natural reserve fund are flooded with water:.

Black Sea Biosphere Reserve;

Svyatoslav Beloberezhya National Natural Park,.

NPP Nizhnedneprovsky,.

NNP Oleshkovsky Sands;

RLP Kinburn Spit;

reserves:.

Salt Lake.

bakery.

birch pegs.

Stanislavsky.

Aleksandrovskiy.

Ingulets Estuary.

cross saga.

Shaby.

Buckeye Gutter.

Wide Beam.

Sofievsky.

Yagorlytsky.

Sagas.

Korsunsky.

beaver lake.

protected areas:.

Tsyurupinsky pine forest.

Starozburievsky acacia forest.

Holoprystan Acacia Forest.

parks-sights of landscape gardening art:.

Park of the sanatorium "

arboretum of the Nizhnedneprovsky VAT (3 ha).

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“In the future, the scale of destruction will grow rapidly, because the fast current in the fairway under the high right bank of the Dnieper will wash away a number of nature reserves located along the coast. This will mean abrasion of high banks in the first days after the start of flooding and continued erosion in the future,” experts say about the larger consequences of the disaster, which will take years to eliminate..

As a result of a catastrophic flood, not only the Dnieper River will suffer, but also its tributaries, for example, the Ingulets and Verevchina, the lower reaches of which are also flooded for many kilometers by water flowing from the Kakhovka reservoir. On the morning of June 7, a reverse flow was recorded in these rivers.. This will certainly also have a negative impact on the fauna and ecosystem of the rivers..