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Updated May 05, 2008


April 24, 2008 Boris Prokopchik, Website "21.BY – Belarusian news and everything about Belarus" Publication: A symbol of grace and a standard of fearfulness

60 fallow-deer has got "registration" in the area of the Ostrovetskiy timber enterprise. And other animals. The Project "The Sarachanskoe Lake" is realized on the Ostrovetskiy land in accordance with the State Program of Development of Hunting Eonomy for 2006 - 2015. The Programme stipulates to create new populations of animals (red deer, dappled deer, fallow-deer, moufflon and others) by their moving in the places which are the most suitable to further reproduction. Thirty fallow-noble deer were the first settlers there from Belovezhskaya Pushcha last year and they already bred giving four small deer. ... To read in Belarussian or by using the web-translator here.
April 23, 2008 "Vecherniy Brest" (The Evening Brest) newspaper News: A pertinacious wild boar?

The locals of the village of Sedruzh of the Kamenetz area are a bit panic-stricken. A wild boar lately began to come close to their houses too very often. And visits of this animal to a local farm are already usual. It frightens horses and pesters other home animals. However, the most warring is that the children have to walk to the nearest bus stop across the forest. It's unknown concerning behaviour of the wild animal. Perhaps, will someone take security measures? Valentina Semenovna, a villager of Sedruzh. ... Read more here.
April 18, 2008 Website "The National Park "Belovezhskaya Pushcha"" Íîâîñòü: Bird of the Year in Belovezhskaya Pushcha

This year the NGO “Akhova Ptushak Batskaushchyny” (BirdLife Belarus) has chosen Great Egret (Egretta alba) as a bird of the year. This choice of the preservationists of birds wasn’t random. Regardless the fact that this specie in included into the Red Book and its population increases, there are many problems considering protection of great egrets in the country. The main is the fact that egret eats fish at the ponds of fish farms, where this specie is considered to be "undesirable". That is why it is hunted ... Read more here.
April 17, 2008 Vasiliy Peskov, "Komsomolskaya Pravda" (The Komsomolskaya Truth) newspaper Publication: The opening into the nature: what happens during the hunting

In 1968, after the murder of the second of the Kennedy Robert brothers in Los-Angeles , the senator's friends have sent his son to Africa that brake his circle of bad emotional experience. He has witnessed a rather harmless hunting for antelopes. These animals run away in the face of any danger. However, the case when the antelope unexpectedly attacked a dismayed rider (look a picture) was recorded. Any hunting bodes unexpectedness. On the eve of the Greenwald battle against the Teuton order (1410), a few hundreds of wild boars and deer were extracted in Belovezhskaya Pushcha for the Slavs. ... Read more in Russian or by using the web-translator here.
April 19, 2008 Live-Journal: How to save the planet Earth, civilization, himself BP-21 LIVE-JOURNAL: Don't burn a last-year dry grass: they have made it, monsters… 3.

One week ago I have placed the "magic" letter addressed to the brigade-leader of one of the collective farms of the Zhabinka district of the Brest area in which I explained why it shouldn't burn a dry grass in the spring time and which bid damage is to the alive nature if doing it. The addresser has received that letter. And I do hope that this woman has understood all things and she will not destroy by fire the living nature next year, on the contrary, she will rescue it by extinguishing the spring fires.
However, what was done cannot be cancelled back. One of these days I have visited that area and now I want to show you how this area is looking at.
Compare how beautiful and wonderful the nature is looking in spring when it's virginal by leaving alone. See how the nature is green-growing and blossoming out by shining with colours and forms. And it also makes happy us. It's not important that this beauty is poor, small and relative after agricultural land-reclamation. This also looks beautiful. And what terrible and awful picture is left if all the area was burnt by a "blind" and cruel man.
These photos show how looks … Read more in Russian or by using the web-translator http://bp21.livejournal.com/10155.html

Updated April 19, 2008


April 19, 2008 BP-21 Website News Service News: Kaleidoscope of information. The best photos:

Sheepf from Bialowieza (Poland). The Church in Hajnowka nearby the Bialowieza Forest (Poland). ... See photos here.

March 27, 2008 BP-21 Website News Service

Important news: Dumping down a house of culture in Belovezhskaya Pushcha this summer and wood last spring

BP-21 Century News reported earlier of how Kamenyuki’s spacious community centre was pulled down, and what was left of it taken to a local dump and buried in summer 2007. News of another “dumping down” – this time of wood and saw log from a woodworking factory in the village – broke recently. This was resulted from inefficient wood-processing in the National Park.
Between 2002 and 2005 the national park was yet again under attack from eight-toothed bark beetle. The outbreak appeared, unlike any other in Belovezhskaya Pushcha, huge both in number of this monster pests and its toll on the nature. Back then the beetle battle was being waged by massive tree felling and extracting. While the effort centered around it the woodworking factory was flooded with wood it could not possibly cope with. That meant that, at the end of the day, the quality of the output deteriorated, eventually below zero. And with the sales badly organized, the processed wood was doomed to rot and further lose its commercial value piled up on the premises ... Read more here.
March 27, 2008 BP-21 Website News Service

Photo-fact: Dumping down wood and saw log at a local restricted dump nearby the timber mill (2008)

Events, facts, documents and evidences: It was reported earlier of how inefficient wood-processing was organised in the National Park. In 2002 and 2003 employees' energy of the National Park was basically targeted to massive tree felling and extracting as much as possible. Scales and volumes of tree cuttings were as big as the woodworking factory was flooded with wood it could not possibly cope with. This led to losses in the quality eventually to deteriorate the output. And with the sales badly organized, the processed wood was doomed to rot and further lose its commercial value piled up on the premises. The stocks in the meantime were also backed up by large amounts of decaying and still untreated wood. This has resulted in turning the area of the woodworking factory to a very big store of rotten wood and trees of poor quality, and board not being sold. In 2007 … Read and see photos more here.
April 18, 2008 Website "The National Park "Belovezhskaya Pushcha"" News: A Scientific Council

The session of the Scientific and Technical Council of the National Park "Belovezhskaya Pushcha" was held. Nikolai Bambiza, the General director of the State Nature Protection Institution "The National Park "Belovezhskaya Pushcha", has opened the session and has acquainted the Council's members with the agenda. The most important issues of the management ... Read more here.
April 18, 2008 Website "The National Park "Belovezhskaya Pushcha"" News: Took part

The National action "2008 Forest Week" initiated by the Ministry of Forestry has passed in Belarus. The employees of the National Park "Belovezhskaya Pushcha" have also contributed to the All-European Forest Week. Pine, birch and oak seedlings were planted in the area of 137 hectares ... Read more here.
April 11, 2008 Live-Journal: How to save the planet Earth, civilization, himself BP-21 LIVE-JOURNAL: Alexander Kozulin's forgiveness is a very important moral lesson for the society

All people can be divided into 2 categories – those who reflect on sense of their life and seriously want to change their surroundings and those who are simply living but for all that not caring what their environment is round. The first group is in the minority, the second is in the overwhelming majority.
However, how deeply do the people from the first group reflect on the essence of life? What on-going reasons do they find? What conclusions do they come to? Alas, reading the books, newspapers and forums, looking through telecasts, having contacts and communications with the people and doing my business issues, I in most cases come to a sad conclusion that the most of the people are far from the true understanding of the reasons and consequences of the processes going on around. That's also why changes are not coming in our life or they are going very slow. It is because to think means the one issue while to find the answers is another one.
In this connection I have found important to place here a dialogue between two clever people – the writer Svetlana Alexeevich and the political analyst Alexander Feduta. This conversation was published more than one week ago. But in this case the prescription has no importance because deep and clever thoughts, such as in this dialogue, do not become outdated. Especially because these kinds of publications are appearing utterly seldom and the things which these people are talking about require a certain time for understanding and comprehension.
Of course … Read more in Russian or by using the web-translator http://bp21.livejournal.com/8820.html
April 11, 2008 Website "BELTA" News: Belarus tourist potential presented at international exhibition in Gdansk

The 11th international tourist exhibition was opened in Gdansk. The official opening ceremony of the forum was attended by Consul General of Belarus to Gdansk Ruslan Esin and deputy head of the committee for physical culture, sports and tourism of the Gomel oblast executive committee Vadim Karmazin. The Belarusian delegation included the representatives ... Read more here.
April 10, 2008 Live-Journal: How to save the planet Earth, civilization, himself BP-21 LIVE-JOURNAL: Not necessary to be afraid of fanatics!

Month ago I have placed the publication "A person of petty interests is an enemy of the civilization!". It narrates about the "small" people, about the weak, illiterate, self-complacent and selfish ones, indifferent to all things, except for their apartment, court yard and personal incomes, living by daily needs, not comprehending and not interested in politics, governing the country, society's issues and outward things. It narrates about what serious and negative consequences and shocks results from when such the people (when they are in the majority) get the right to rule the destiny of the country in conditions of democracy through elections. It narrates about perishing the nature and the planet Earth when prevalence of the person of petty interests in the society.
Lately in the Live-Journal the perfect, in my opinion, paper by Vladimir Matskevich, a famous Belarusian methodology expert, "Why are we always the last?" was published. In it he analyzes a very antithesis of the person of petty interests - FANATICS, the extra-active people who follow any idea being uncritical or fanatical. As against a person of petty interests, the fanatics are not numerous in the society. However their stormy and aggressive activity creates illusion of their force, power and total accuracy. Not only persons of petty interests but also ordinary people, as a rule, give in and retreat back being under pressure of the fanatics. In the upshot the lasts win in the society.
I want … Read more in Russian or by using the web-translator http://bp21.livejournal.com/8578.html
April 09, 2008 Live-Journal: How to save the planet Earth, civilization, himself BP-21 LIVE-JOURNAL: The old moon in hands of the young

It is or a subject about space beauty because not only earthy matters should be life-topical for the human… Space is also the perfect world around us. It is necessary only to look narrowly at and to reflect. And internal propensity for the infinite of open spaces which permanently presents at one heart and periodically awake at others, this is not just simply so …
Heorhi Kazulka, Belovezhskaya Pushcha
These nights when fine weather, especially outside of the urban dusty atmosphere, one can see a beautiful astronomical phenomenon – the ashy-colour light of the Moon dark side. Leonardo de Vinci was the first who has explained it.
The last new moon was March 7. Now after sunset we see in the west a narrow crescent moon and … Read more in Russian or by using the web-translator http://bp21.livejournal.com/8233.html
April 08, 2008 Website "Belteleradiocompany" News: Belarusian and Polish specialists are going to develop a large-scale map of stansborder (Belarusian-Polish) object "Augustow Canal: a wok of nature and a human being"

The object claims to be joined to the UNESCO World Heritage list, BelTA news agency learnt from Igor Chernyavski, the head of the history and culture heritage and restoration of the Culture Ministry of Belarus. Igor Chernyavski noted that, on April 14-16, Poland will host a session of the Belarusian-Polish advisory commission that will highlight the preparation of the transborder map. This year the UNESCO World Heritage Center has received a dossier ... Read more here.
April 08, 2008 Website "The National Park "Belovezhskaya Pushcha"" News: The spring has come!

The spring has come to Belovezhskaya Pushcha. After big snowfall of short duration in late March, the real spring has visited us. Right after snowdrops, hazels and alders, some bushes has adorned themselves with softly pink-lilac inflorescences. Among last year's withered last leafs, short hepatica stalks and white-colour "slim-legged" anemones have shined through the forest litter. Green iris leafs have appeared from a pond ... Read more here.
April 08, 2008 Taisia Skuratova, Website "The National Park "Belovezhskaya Pushcha" Publication: A life-giving origin of Belovezhskaya Pushcha

Those who take a rest in Belovezhskaya Pushcha want first of all to see the origin woodland – the most ancient relic forest which covered the European plain once. Ecological routes are developed for those who are not afraid of passing on foot in places "where the grass is high and bushes are thicker". In addition to amazing nature there are many other surprising objects in Belovezhskaya Pushcha to be interesting for visitors. They are historical monuments first of all. Read in Russian or by using the web-translator here.
April 08, 2008 Live-Journal: How to save the planet Earth, civilization, himself BP-21 LIVE-JOURNAL: Don't burn a last-year dry grass: the woman's mission is to bring Kindness and Love, not death and destruction. 2

1. That's not only the point of ignorance. The people do not feel and do not realize what Life is.
Some years ago one young resident of Belovezhskaya Pushcha has made an act against me unworthy of the man and human name. He has made it of being fear and weak heart. He has executed an illegal order of the National Park's director against me what can be in general understandable. But the most important is he has accused me that I, through my publications and actions to fight for Belovezhskaya Pushcha, irritate and provoke criminal local chiefs who then centre out through infringement upon rights of the locals, oppression them etc. He said everything would be good if there would be no me with the campaign for the Pushcha's protection. In short, this is a typical position of the slave who accuses a partner aiming to escape from slavery, not slave-holder.
After coming back home an idea has occurred to me and I have written a kind letter to him … Read more in Russian or by using the web-translator http://bp21.livejournal.com/8184.html
April 07, 2008 Live-Journal: How to save the planet Earth, civilization, himself BP-21 LIVE-JOURNAL: Rainbow over Belovezhskaya Pushcha. 1.

First rain with rainbow has passed over Belovezhskaya Pushcha this year. It was difficult to photograph in the rain however you see as it has turned out … See photos here http://bp21.livejournal.com/7856.html

April 05, 2008 Elena Yasko, "Narodnaya Gazeta" (The People’s Newspaper) Newspaper Publication: What will we show to a man who does not know Belarus?

We asked Roman Matulskiy, the director of the National Library of Belarus, to draw up a list of seven miracles of Belarus. "I would put the Belarusian National Library to be high on the list. I would include only man-made objects in the list "Seven miracles of Belarus", not natural ones. However, Belovezhskaya Pushcha represents an example of unusual symbiosis, a miracle created by nature the people could save. Its uniqueness goes from that we could save a small part of undisturbed nature in the centre of Europe and this is our great achievement. The next miracle is the Kamenetz Tower or the White Tower. Read in Belarusian or by using the web-translator here.
April 04, 2008 Artem Levchenko, Website "Liveinternet.ru" Publication: The Kharkov uhlans. Part II. Belovezhskaya Pushcha

The event which uhlans from the Kharkov regiment witnessed and participated in 1912, is worth to be entered not only in the regimental but also in the world history. The last hunting of the last Russian king … Close to the city of Bialystok where the 4th Kharkov uhlan regiment was quartered, the famous Belovezhskaya Pushcha has stretched its relic thickets. Since From times immemorial sovereigns – princes, Polish kings and Russian tsars - hunted there. ... Read more in Russian or by using the web-translator here.
April 03, 2008 Archpriest Vladimir Koretskiy, Website "Orthodoxy in Ukraine" Publication: Our sister, Belarus. Stories in four parts

One says today about the Belarusian land either having respect and love or demonstrating sneer and frankly dislike. However, no one expresses his indifference to it. How will I, the orthodox priest, see this part of Sacred Russia as I have got used to travel since the childhood times but never visited Belarus before? The Creator's Greatness originates from primordial beauty of Belovezhskaya Pushcha. ... Read more in Russian or by using the web-translator here.

Updated April 06, 2008


April 06, 2008 Live-Journal: How to save the planet Earth, civilization, himself BP-21 Live-Journal: Don't burn a last-year dry grass. It is not dry, it is alive. 1

The next long-awaited spring has come to bring warm and sunny. And then the people again has rushed to burn a dry grass. With a heavy heart I have to look at how the people, who by foolishness, other consciously, destroy the living Earth in such the way.
1. It's easier to agree with God that again to get rains in Belarus.
One of these days I have written a letter to my Belarusian colleagues "On Sunday and Monday 17 degrees above zero was in the area of Brest! Therefore the people have gone to burn all around. The mother has today said that a local manager specially went across the collective farm's lands and has burned the dry grass along land-reclamation channels and roadsides. While we are saying "nature protection".... And all our businesses are the same - lots of conversations instead of real and concrete actions we have to do".
In response the stormy discussion began in the Green dispatch that it is necessary … Read more in Russian or by using the web-translator http://bp21.livejournal.com/7465.html
April 04, 2008 Live-Journal: How to save the planet Earth, civilization, himself BP-21 Live-Journal: The nuclear station in Belarus is not progress, it is impasse!

In my previous message I have written about how Belarusian biologists and ecologists, teachers of the Grodno State University, with scientific degrees, have sent a letter desiring to construct a nuclear station in their "court yard". My message has caused "stormy" reaction among the Belarusian environmentalists. No one Belarusian ecologist responded to this article, despite, by the visit index, many people have read it. The situation is clear. The people including the ecologists don't care such things. I am just wondering that some one still dream of any antinuclear movement in Belarus. Well, as the saying goes, dreams do not make harm …
In this message I want to give 3 interesting things :
First, I am going very shortly to explain what problems appear if the nuclear station is constructed. The most of these problems is carefully ignored by the official state propaganda or is simply garbled.
Secondly I am going to put for listening an audio-file of the Andrei Ozharovski's speech, Russian nuclear physics, who explains that to what the issues quite professionally, popularly and interestingly.
And thirdly … Read more in Russian or by using the web-translator http://bp21.livejournal.com/7314.html
April 02, 2008 Pavel P Antonov, Website "Association for Progressive Communications (APC)"

Important publication: Battlefield internet: Belarusian civil society active despite censorship

Zelyonaya Set’s headquarters are no different from any other non governmental organisation (NGO) office in Central and Eastern Europe. The theatrical setup in Zelyonaya Set’s office makes the action and dialogue appear dramatic and somewhat surrealistic. Against the backdrop of censorship and limitation attempts, e-networking has already become a powerful civil society instrument. Irina recalls the online campaign against mismanagement of Europe’s last remaining primeval forest, the Belovezhskaya Pushcha National Park. Since 2001 local activists went online publicising the violations on a designated web site. Authorities originally attempted to shut down the website, but after it picked up in visibility and reached the international community, they became much more cautious and, even going as far as acting to protect the forest. ... Read more here.
April 02, 2008 Website "BELTA" News: In 2007, Belarus increases export of tourist services to Italy by 37.1%

In 2007, Belarus increased export of tourist services to Italy by 37.1% over 2006 to $2 million, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Belarus to Italy Alexei Skripko told BelTA. According to the diplomat, the Belarusian side initiates new projects in Italy. “I am convinced that the joint project on the first travel guide about Belarus in Italian will, in many things, contribute to the development of tourism,” the ambassador said. According to ... Read more here.
April 02, 2008 Live-Journal: How to save the planet Earth, civilization, himself BP-21 Live-Journal: Don't wait for! And also why the ecologists from Grodno ask to construct a nuclear station in their court yard

Two weeks ago I have written the appeal to my friends and like-minded persons. I called to reflect on why our nature protection activities, and not only them, are bad and asked consciously to make a step ahead, namely to be united that to popularize the idea of conservation of the planet Earth and all its life including the human being. Time has come to summarize.
The results of my were shocking! At least, for me. It proved to be that after the appeal … I have made a biggest evolutionary step forward. Namely:
1. It appears that I still had some illusions in relation of … Read more in Russian or by using the web-translator http://bp21.livejournal.com/6874.html
March 19, 2008 Website "Liozno Regional Executive Committee" News: Belarus has potential to develop any kind of tourism, Alexander Grigorov says

Belarus has all the possibilities to develop any kind of tourism, be it ecological, agricultural, cultural or sports tourism, Alexander Grigorov, the Minister of Tourism and Sports, said at the presentation of the Belarusian tourist potential in the embassy of Belarus to Russia on March 18. Attending the meeting were representatives of the diplomatic missions accredited in Moscow, the Government of Moscow and Russian parliamentarians. According to Alexander Grigorov, Belarus has rich historical and cultural heritage. Unique castles, temples and other architectural sites survive in numerous towns of Belarus, including Novogrudok, Nesvizh, Polotsk, Turov. Four objects ... Read more here.
February 08, 2008 Elena Konysheva, "Respublika" (The Republic) newspaper Article: Nature Melody, Beauty Melody…

In December, 2009 it will be 600 years since the beginning of the preservation state of Belovezhskaya Pushcha (one of the biggest European forest). This statement resulted from Belarusian and Polish scientists’ documental survey. The first mentioning in the chronicles on Grand Duke Vytautas’ and Jogaila’s hunting for catering of the unity troops who won in the Battle of Grunwald is dated exactly since December, 1409. There is much to do for preparations for anniversary celebration including careful R&D works studying historical legacy of Belovezhskaya Pushcha National Park, detailed analysis of historical, archeological and ethnographical sources and data as well as to develop recommendations on its practical application. ... Read more here.

Updated March 26, 2008


March 26, 2008 Live-Journal: How to save the planet Earth, civilization, himself BP-21 Live-Journal: Has Belovezhskaya Pushcha returned a European Diploma? Not yet! 3.

A canard, "a duck" has flown over Belarus! No, not that which hunters shoot at and against what the birds' defenders struggle. The other…
So, the situation is making clear. Actually no any European Diploma was renewed for Belovezhskaya Pushcha! The ideologists on the staff working for the Belarusian authorities have started one more propagandistic canard ("duck" in Russian), primitive lie and disinformation as it was repeatedly in the past. The canard was started by those who bravely report already for 7 years that everything is perfect in Belovezhskaya Pushcha. The canard author's name was even published. Although it is possible that the Respublika newspaper's editor could independently add (think out) brave conclusions and sensational headings that again has confirmed its reputation. So it was not in vain to me to have a fling at this newspaper last time. However, let them come to know the particulars themselves.
Here is important to say that the procedure of renewal of the European Diploma still follows democratic, legal and civilized ways, that the Council of Europe does not go back on its rules … Read more in Russian or by using the web-translator http://bp21.livejournal.com/6874.html
March 24, 2008 Website "Tut.By"

Important news: A European Diploma will be renewed for Belovezhskaya Pushcha after the National Park's management plan to be approved at the national level

A European Diploma should be renewed for Belovezhskaya Pushcha after the National Park's management plan to be approved at the national level. Dmitriy Bernatskiy, the deputy director on science of the National Park "Belovezhskaya Pushcha" has informed to the BelaPAN News Agency that this kind of decision has been made from the results of the CE experts' session on awarding the diplomas to protected areas which was held on March 17 in Strasbourg (France). As he said the ÑÅ representatives want to examine the final version of the management plan which "should meet the European standards and should fully satisfy to its purpose", so they ask to bring or to send the plan to Strasbourg after it will be approved at the national level. According to Mr. Bernatskiy, the complete document is planned to ... Read more here.
March 25, 2008 Live-Journal: How to save the planet Earth, civilization, himself BP-21 Live-Journal: Winter sceneries in Belovezhskaya Pushcha 1.

The winter absent this year has come back to Belovezhskaya Pushcha… Not for a long time but come back. There was snowing almost twenty-four hours. The natural shapes have changed. Here are a small selection of photos of Belovezhskaya Pushcha in its winter beauty for your verdict. … See pictures of show sceneries here http://bp21.livejournal.com/6425.html

Updated March 25, 2008


March 24, 2008 Live-Journal: How to save the planet Earth, civilization, himself BP-21 Live-Journal: Belovezhskaya Pushcha has returned a European Diploma! What was there? 2.

So, half a year was over… The official Belarusian propaganda (Such is indeed propaganda since state mass-medias in the true sense of this word do not exists in Belarus anymore as all of them have become a tool and megaphone of ideological propagation) constantly distributed information that everything is allegedly in order, that everything what's happened was a consequence of intrigues of "enemies", "slanderers" and "evil-wishers", that the governors day and night thinks and care of the boon and prosperity of the Bialowieza Primeval Forest. There were allegedly objective circumstances, we were physically could not prepare the management plan, we will now make it and everything will be Ok.
However, we exactly knew that actually all of this is far from being so. We knew that the management plan (of true context, of high quality, of being professionally made) for the National Park is still absent. And that what's available is a fiction, instead of … Read more in Russian or by using the web-translator http://bp21.livejournal.com/5999.html
March 22, 2008 Mikhail SHIMANSKIY, "Respublika" (The Republic) newspaper Publication: "If this were so to take a lick of Belovezhskaya Pushcha to our Shanghai"

"If this were so to take a lick of Belovezhskaya Pushcha to our Shanghai", Chinese Chen Tifen has said when visiting the main Belarusian wild forest. We further will tell in detail about what reasons were to give rise to so genuine delight of the citizen of the friendly to us country. In the beginning, however, it is about what our Belarusian in his turn has seen in the Chen Tifen's native land. These two episodes are logically connected each to other. ... To read in Russian or by using the web-translator here.

Updated March 24, 2008


March 24, 2008 Live-Journal: How to save the planet Earth, civilization, himself BP-21 Live-Journal: Belovezhskaya Pushcha has returned a European Diploma! What was there? 1.

The 26th February, 2008. A damp and sleety day, one of the many for this winter. It is raining from time to time changing into showing. The night is coming. A big rainstorm is beginning. The wind presses on windows as strong as it seems that it just will brake in glasses. And suddenly … a bright flare and very powerful thunderclap. A bit later the second one. A winter thunder-storm. A unusual natural phenomenon. A weather anomaly. In three weeks, it is possible, the other anomaly, connected with nature protection happened …
Last month very different rumours concerning the situation with the European Diploma for Belovezhskaya Pushcha were around. They were basically that the Diploma to the National Park … Read more in Russian or by using the web-translator http://bp21.livejournal.com/5999.html
March 21, 2008 "Respublika" (The Republic) newspaper

Important news: The oldest forest of Europe: the European community has recognized the management plan for Belovezhskaya Pushcha and has approved the European Diploma

Nikolai Bambiza, the director of the National Park "Belovezhskaya Pushcha" has brought a good message from Strasbourg. The plan of development of the National Park made by Belarusian scientist is approved at the session of the experts' Commission for the Bern Convention of the Council of Europe. The document is recommended as a main guiding tool for further activities on conservation of the oldest forest in Europe. At the end of the next year the National Park "Belovezhskaya Pushcha" will celebrate the 600th anniversary since the first nature protection status. The birthday of the Reserve ... Read more here.
March 21, 2008 Website "Naviny.by" News: The National Park "Belovezhskaya Pushcha" has began to breed Fallow deer

Taisia Skuratova, a senior expert of the information sector of the Nature Protection Institution, has informed to the BelaPAN News Agency that 83 animals of this species were purchased for this purpose in Poland. A special fenced enclosure of the area of 2,000 hectares was constructed in the Pashukovskoe forest area to host the animals delivered to the Pushcha in the middle of March. Taisia Skuratova has noted that Fallow deer first were delivered to Belovezhskaya Pushcha in the middle of the XIX century. In 1885 their number was over 700. During the First World War they were completely exterminated ... Read more here.

Updated March 22, 2008


March 21, 2008 Live-Journal: How to save the planet Earth, civilization, himself BP-21 Live-Journal Sunsets colorful as magic in Belovezhskaya Pushcha. 1.

This spring, splendidly after such warm winter, lasts too long. The Atlantic cyclones run one after the other. Sometimes, quite rare, by force of coincidence of many natural climatic factors, sunsets colorful as fantastic are appearing.
One of them could be observed on March 19, 2008. Here are some beautiful pictures from a series "Sunsets in Belovezhskaya Pushcha". … See more pictures and read in Russian or by using the web-translator http://bp21.livejournal.com/5650.html

Updated March 21, 2008


March 18, 2008 Website "The Embassy of the Republic of Belarus in Russian Federation" News: Belovezhskaya Pushcha will appear showing a renovated shape for the visitors in 2009

The National Park "Belovezhskaya Pushcha" will appear showing a renovated shape for the visitors in 2009 when the 600th anniversary since establishment of first protection decrees. Sigizmund Kezhun, the chief-forester of the National Park, has told to the BelTA News Agency that the open-air animal enclosures will be reconstructed in Belovezhskaya Pushcha. "We plan to replace the old enclosure seating by the new and to haul new grids", the interlocutor has told. So, visitors will get more comfortably observing the dwellers of the National Park". The plans are also to install a new watch-tower that all wishing could see the animals ... Read more here.
March 10, 2008 "Ezhednevnik" (The Daily Newspaper)

Important news: The National Park to blossom

2009 will see the 600th anniversary since the introduction of reservation conditions in Belovezhskaya Pushcha. The Belarusian government plans to spend over BYR 60 billion or $ 28 million for a large-scale national park beautification project to mark the celebrations. The project is set to complete between 2008 and 2009 and will, firstly, focus on building new and refurbishing old infrastructure. An estimated BYR 9.1 billion or $ 4.2 million is to be allocated for a new administrative and ecological centre which will house a museum of nature. The work on its construction is due to begin in 2008 and the centre is to open ... Read more here.

Updated March 19, 2008


March 17, 2008 Website "Naviny.by"

Important news: The representatives of the Belarusian community whish to take part in development of the management plan for Belovezhskaya Pushcha

The representatives of the Belarusian community has declared their wish to participate in discussions and development of the management plan for the National Park "Belovezhskaya Pushcha". They has addressed an appropriate letter to the Property Management Department of the President of the Republic of Belarus, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment Protection, the National Park "Belovezhskaya Pushcha" and to the Council of Europe. The authors of the letter, among them Heorhi Kazulka, a famous ecologist, PhD of Biology, the former deputy director on science of the National Park "Belovezhskaya Pushcha", and Valeriy Dranchuk, an independent journalist and an author of the book "Belovezhskaya Pushcha. The Resolution SOS" (2004), state concern about the situation in Belovezhskaya Pushcha. ... Read more here.

the Gawra Guest-House, Bialowieza Forest, Poland

Accommodation in the Guest-House "Gawra", Bialowieza Forest, Poland