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LET BELOVEZHSKAYA PUSHCHA BE SPIRITUALLY 'WHITE'!
An appeal to the national and international public!
At the end of 2009, Belarus is holding the grand celebration of a remarkable historical date, 600 years of the first nature protection laws in the Belovezhskaya Pushcha (Bialowieza Primeval Forest), an ancient forest and natural protected area named for White Tower. In other words, October 3 will mark 600 years of Belovezhskaya Pushcha’s protection, as the Poles put it correctly. But certainly not 600 years of the forest’s strict wilderness protection status, as ... Read more here.

March 16, 2010 BP-21 Website News Service

Photo-fact: Converting a science and administration office building into hotel number 4 and construction of am indoor pool, 2006 - 2009

On the older page "Liquidation of the office building and eviction of the scientific department from the laboratories, 2003-2004" it was already described in detail about how in 2003 all services including the scientific department were moved from the research laboratory and administration office building to the industry area and the plan started promptly to reconstruct the building into one more hotel. The building had been constructed in the middle of the 1970's for the scientific ... See photos and read more here.

March 15, 2010 Website "Belteleradiocompany" News: Video: Museum of History and Nature of Belovezhskaya Pushcha Forest expanding

Two more halls will appear there. Now the natural wonders of the oldest forest of Europe will be not only seen, but also heard. By Svetlana Vechorko: The very familiar bison Puginal, a symbol of Belovezhskaya Pushcha and a founder of the modern bison herd, meet the visitors of the new museum. This forest giant has been in the old museum for many tens years. It is also used this ... Read more here.

March 14, 2010 Website "Las Cruces Sun-News" News: Prince Charles to visit bison-filled Polish forest

In this photo dated Feb. 2005, bison, Europe's largest land mammal, forage in the recently fallen snow in the Bialowieza Forest in Poland. Britain's Prince Charles is visiting Poland on upcoming Monday, a journey that will include a visit to the bison-filled woodland of Bialowieza Forest, Europe's last remaining primeval forest which remains only thanks to preservation efforts of various kings and... Read more here.

March 12, 2010 BP-21 Website News Service

Photo-fact: Hotels number 3 and 1 complete overhaul, 2008 - 2009

The tourist center of the National Park "Belovezhskaya Pushcha" is situated near the village of Kamenyuki, in the southern part of the protected forest. There are three hotels (number 1, 3 and 4) there. In 2002-2003 hotels number 1 and number 3 have been renovated to qualify to European standards. At the same time traditional local fretwork and ... See photos and read more here.

March 11, 2010 BP-21 Website News Service

Photo-fact: Hotel number 2 complete overhaul, 2008 - 2009

The tourist center of the National Park "Belovezhskaya Pushcha" is situated near the village of Kamenyuki, in the southern part of the protected forest. There are a few hotels there. Three of them are located at the tourist center and one (number 2) is in the village of Kamenyuki. It was built in the 1990-s. At first it was principally used for ... See photos and read more here.

March 09, 2010 BP-21 Website News Service

Photo-fact: A polygon for storage of "organic fertilizers" or, to be exact, simply a dumping ground of sawdust and wastes of wood processing, 2005-2008

It has earlier been described in detail on the page "Pollution of Belovezhskaya Pushcha: dumping rubbish and sawdust" about a new polygon or, to be exact, a dumping ground for storage of sawdust and wastes of wood processing which was built in 2004. It is located close to the village of Selishche which is tree kilometer from the village of Kamenyuki (the administrative center of the national park) and a thriving sawmill. Sawdust and other wood processing wastes which were earlier burnt at... See photos and read more here.

March 09, 2010 Website "Telegraf.by" News: Prince Charles to Visit Belavezhskaya Pushcha

The Prince of Wales and his wife Camilla are planning to visit Belavezhskaya Pushcha - connate primeval forest on the border of Poland and Belarus. Prince Charles and his wife expressed a wish to see "bison of Belavezha in their natural environment," reported Elenta Gadek, one of the representatives of Polish Podlaskie Voivodship authorities which borders with Belarus. Long ago, representatives of the royal family ... Read more here.

March 08, 2010 Website "France24" News: Prince Charles to visit rare European bison herd

Britain's Prince Charles and Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, arrive at Westminster Abbey on Monday. Prince Charles is to visit a rare herd of European bison in Poland's primeval Bialowieza forest next week, local authorities said Monday. AFP - Prince Charles, the eco-friendly heir to the British throne, is to visit a rare herd of European ... Read more here.

March 08, 2010 BP-21 Website News Service

Photo-fact: Rubbish around the tourist center of Belovezhskaya Pushcha, 2006 - 2007

As it has already been described in detail on older pages "National Park shows its anti-ecological ways to tourists, 2004" and "Rubbish around the tourist center of Belovezhskaya Pushcha, 2005", the National Park "Belovezhskaya Pushcha" provides unsatisfactory work on keeping Belovezhskaya Pushcha clean of rubbish, including the forest around the tourist center in the ... See photos and read more here.

March 07, 2010 BP-21 Website News Service

Photo-fact: Pollution of Belovezhskaya Pushcha: dumping rubbish, the village of Kamenyuki, 2006 - 2009

A serious problem has sprung up in Belovezhskaya Pushcha in the recent years - rubbish pollution. Both the local population and the national park's services are a source of this pollution. The problem has already been described in detail on older pages – "Pollution, the village of Kamenyuki, 2004", "Pollution, the village of Kamenyuki, 2005" and "Pollution, the village of Belaya, 2005". Everybody knows about the negative consequences of this kind of pollution towards a protected ... See photos and read more here.

March 06, 2010 BP-21 Website News Service

Photo-fact: Building and renovation of roads in Belovezhskaya Pushcha, 2005 – 2009

A ramified and well advanced net of roads exists in Belovezhskaya Pushcha for a long time. It basically coincides with a forest compartment net. Central roads have been asphalted in the 70-s to 80-s. The others remained to be gravel-covered. Big works on asphalting and renovation of the roads have been conducted by late 2010-s in connection with the celebration of the 600th anniversary of protection of Belovezhskaya Pushcha. The problem regarding roads in Belovezhskaya Pushcha is not ... See photos and read more here.

March 05, 2010 BP-21 Website News Service

Photo-fact: Rotten timber wood left to lie in the forest, 2006 – 2008

Older pages have already in detail described that in conductions of large-scale cuttings down in the National Park "Belovezhskaya Pushcha" the major powers targeted to extract as much timber as possible. The issues of duly transportation out of the forest and sales were not paid proper attention. It resulted in the accumulation of a big volume of timber, being ... See photos and read more here.

March 02, 2010 Website "Naviny.by"

Important news: Belarusian ecologists are against renewal of a European Diploma for Belovezhskaya Pushcha

The BelaPAN Information Agency learned from one of those who signed an appeal that 17 Belarusian representatives of the environmental public have addressed to the Council of Europe with a request to take another year's break before making the final decision on renewal of the Diploma for the National Park "Belovezhskaya Pushcha". Olga Satsuk, information manager of the environmental Alliance "Green Network", said that the former deputy director for research of the National Park Heorhi Kazulka took part as an initiator of this ... Read more here.

March 01, 2010 BP-21 Website News Service

Photo-fact: Giant trees and "stump landscapes" around, 2005 – 2007

One of the main tasks and foreground purposes of the National Park "Belovezhskaya Pushcha" is ecological tourism and ecological education. They are called ecological because it means the work with people on raising their ecological education and consciousness. It is clear that the ecological education in Belovezhskaya Pushcha should be based on science dealing with wilderness protection and on last achievements in the modern ecology and ... See photos and read more here.

March 01, 2010 Vladimir Borisiuk, "Nasha Niva" (Our Field) newspaper Publication: An artist from the Kamenetz land – Nikolai Maevskiy is 60 the 1st of March

His place of birth is the village of Dvortzy from Belovezhskaya Pushcha. Nikolai's first pictures were also born there. Nikolai Maevskiy says in one of his interviews "My Belarus begins from the Kamenetz land which holds two bright symbols of the mother country - White Tower, a symbol of its courageous history, and Belovezhskaya Pushcha, a symbol of unsurpassed beauty of its nature ". There is the whole series of landscape-pictures of Belovezhskaya Pushcha. ... Read more in Belarusian or use a special (web)software to translate the text here.

February 26, 2010 By Lesza dla Puszczy, "Bialowieza-Forest.Blogspot"

Important publication: Last three years of no benefits for wildlife in Bialowieza

Three years ago the Presidential Office established an expert group which would prepare a project on enlarging the national park. A year ago, there was hope that it would be realized. Then another, smaller group was established for a similar project, which met only once. The expert group established by the foresters, completed their project. They proposed different models, but nothing involving enlargement of the national park. Their program focused on the creation of new offices for better propaganda on forest management ...Read more here.

February 26, 2010 Elena Tribuleva, "Vecherniy Brest" (The Evening Brest) newspaper

Important publication: A reserve in a ring

The route of a bypass road around Belovezhskaya Pushcha is ready. Head of state has announced during the celebration of the 600th anniversary of the reserved status by the national park in October last year that the grounds around Belovezhskaya Pushcha will be given to investors. So the first step is over. The line of the bypass road is drown and is approved in the Brest and Grodno Regional Executive Committees and is now under coordination in the capital. Taking into account that the National Park "Belovezhskaya Pushcha" is an especially protected natural area, the composers of the route have counted expedient to put the bypass road along the perimeter of the forest, not touching its own territory. Read more in Russian or use a special (web)software to translate the text here.

February 26, 2010 Vladimir Borisiuk, "Vecherniy Brest" (The Evening Brest) newspaper Publication: A road to home, to Bialowieza

The 1st March it a birthday of the artist of Nikolai Maevskiy from the village of Dvortzy from Belovezhskaya Pushcha. In 2010 he celebrates his 60. His mother Nadezhda Vladimirovna is from the Shokhalevich's family, from another village of Yasen from Belovezhskaya Pushcha where her father worked for bison service. The father's family goes from the area of the Visla River and his great-grandfather began working in Bialowieza. There is a series of landscape-pictures "Winter. Belovezhskaya Pushcha", "Spring. Belovezhskaya Pushcha", "Summer. Belovezhskaya Pushcha", "Autumn. Belovezhskaya Pushcha". Read more in Belarusian or use a special (web)software to translate the text here.

February 22-28, 2010 Elizaveta Bukatetskaya, "Belorusy i Rynok" (Belarusians abd Market) newspaper Publication: Manor getting a lake view

Citizens prefer to live in an apartment and to have a rest in a "rural" house. What do today's buyers of country premises prefer, how much can such pleasure cost and what is important to pay attention when choosing agreement? Irina Gakhovich, head of the Analytical Centre "BelCTN", answers these and other questions. Some buyers purposefully search for property in the Brest region. They are attracted with places in the area of Belovezhskaya Pushcha and Telekhanskoe Lake. Beautiful sites, lots of lakes and a good environment are there. Houses in villages located close to beautiful rivers and lakes (for example, Beloe, Chernoe, Mednyanskoe) and in the area of Belovezhskaya Pushcha are offered at the mean of $ 15,000 but it is possible to find something about $ 7,000. The prices for houses of a bungalow type reach $ 70,000 – 80,000. Read more in Belarusian or use a special (web)software to translate the text here.

March 02, 2010 BP-21 Website News Service

Important news: The Belarusian public to propose to the Council of Europe not to rush to a conclusion regarding the renewal of a European Diploma to the Belovezhskaya Pushcha National Park

17 representatives of the Belarusian ecological public have addressed to the Council of Europe with a letter in which they express their deep concern about the future of Belovezhskaya Pushcha. They note that "the Diploma is still not being used in the national park entirely for the purpose of compliance with international and national environmental regulations, protection of Belovezhskaya Pushcha’s unique nature complex, a balanced nature management process, and harmonious coexistence of man and nature. The Diploma is still not considered there as a ... Read more here.

March 01, 2010 BP-21 Website News Service

Public appeal: An address by the Belarusian public to the Council of Europe with regard to the renewal of the European Diploma of Protected Areas to the Belovezhskaya Pushcha National Park

An official letter to Mrs. Francoise Bauer
Directorate of Culture and Cultural and Natural Heritage, Council of Europe
CC to CE experts

Dear Mrs. Bauer,
dear experts of the Council of Europe,

The professionals and experts of the CE Directorate of Cultural and Natural Heritage are soon to make a decision on renewing the European Diploma to the Belovezhskaya Pushcha National Park, a decision that will have great significance in terms of the park's future. ... Read more here.

February 03, 2010 Aleksandr Savaryn, specially for the BP – 21st century website

Important publication: "Bottled" wilderness protection

Have the Belarusian manufacturers ever asked themselves the question: what is unethical or immoral? Does the name of their production contain duality or even absurdity? We have got a unique alcoholic production brand – beer “Golden Bison.” Its uniqueness derives not from its quality but rather from the product styling. The secret lies in the “patriotic” caption – “to the 600th anniversary of the establishing the reservation status in the Bialowieza Forest.” Thus, are there any elements of patriotism or environmental education in this brand? the “bottled” wilderness protection is not just immoral but is far more than one ever wanted to know. It is depravity, besotting and alcoholising of the Belarusian nation. ... Read more here.

February 28, 2010 BP-21 Website News Service

Photo-fact: Ecological paths and "eco-tourism" in Belovezhskaya Pushcha, 2005 – 2009

The National Park "Belovezhskaya Pushcha" quickly develops the ecological tourism last ten years. For this purpose ecological routes and paths are created there and the appropriate infrastructure is built and is renewed. However, the word "ecological" is more often understood in the own way there, another than it is accepted in the civilized world. Tourists are attracted through advertising ... See photos and read more here.

February 28, 2010 TV-Chanel "Belsat"

Important movie: The management in Belovezhskaya Pushcha

To watch the movie (15 minutes) download the file from here (22,5 Mb) (in Russian).

February 27, 2010 BP-21 Website News Service

Photo-fact: Violations in the Wilderness Protection Zone: medium – oak's extraction, preliminary results, 2009

The overall territory of the National Park "Belovezhskaya Pushcha" is divided into four functional zones in which the level of protection varies. The first and the main is the Wilderness Protection Zone which makes 30,000 ha or 18.3% of the territory. This Zone strictly protects all areas covered by intact and wild natural communities. The Wilderness Protection Zone serves as a reserve of ... See photos and read more here.

February 10, 2010 By Yelena Tribuleva, "Vecherniy Brest" (The Evening Brest) newspaper

Important publication: The Bison Hunt

Rifle shots have been thundering across the protected compartments of Belovezhskaya Pushcha. A new controversy has been brewing around the Belovezhskaya Pushcha National Park. The Svisloch District, Grodno Region prosecutor’s office has begun an inquiry into the illegal shooting of a bison cow in the Yazvinskoe forestry. The killing of the protected animal was not part of what has been recently seen as a regular poaching pattern. Svisloch district Councilor Vladimir Zhukov, there is every reason to believe the rare animal fell prey to a bay hunt arranged specially for visiting foreigners ... Read more here.

February 25, 2010 BP-21 Website News Service

Photo-fact: Violations in the Wilderness Protection Zone: major – illegal hunting for wild ungulates and bison, 2009

On 10th of February 2010 an article "Hunting for bison" was published in the newspaper "The Evening Brest". It narrowed that on 15th of November 2009, a hunting for foreigners with participation of many local employees was organized in the compartment 171 of the Yazvinskoe forest area. A few wild ungulates and a bison were killed during this hunting. (You can read more detail about this ... See photos and read more here.

February 24, 2010 BP-21 Website News Service

Photo-fact: Violations in the Wilderness Protection Zone: minor, 2005

The overall territory of the National Park "Belovezhskaya Pushcha" is divided into four functional zones in which the level of protection varies. The first and the main is the Wilderness Protection Zone which makes 30,000 ha or 18.3% of the territory. This Zone strictly protects all areas covered by intact and wild natural communities. The Wilderness Protection Zone serves as a reserve of genetic resources of plants and animals (a gene pool) and as an entirely natural area. As such this zone ... See photos and read more here.

February 23, 2010 BP-21 Website News Service

Photo-fact: Children ski mountings in the forest destroyed by fire-prevention furrows, 2007

Small sandy hills are next to the village of Kamenyuki, the administrative centre of the National Park "Belovezhskaya Pushcha", in a pine forest called "Shnipovka". Local children used this place to ski and toboggan in the winter period. Their cheerful hubbub was often hearing from there. In summer this area is often used by adults for picnics and ... See photos and read more here.

February 22, 2010 BP-21 Website News Service

Photo-fact: Broken model-scientific permanent plots for forest monitoring, 2004 - 2008

There are special, model-scientific permanent plots for forest monitoring in the National Park "Belovezhskaya Pushcha". Employees of the scientific department research natural processes in conditions of isolation of the plot from wild ungulates which number in Belovezhskaya Pushcha considerably exceeds the ecologically balanced optimum. The feature of these plots is that they are fenced with netting which protects them from ... See photos and read more here.

February 21, 2010 BP-21 Website News Service

Photo-fact: Scientific Permanent Plots for forest monitoring felled. Monitoring results, 2008

A major task of the Belovezhskaya Pushcha National Park is scientific research. The Park is equipped with a Scientific Department, which in the 70’s was amongst the largest scientific institutions occupied with ecological research within the whole former-USSR. The most important task of scientific researches in Belovezhskaya Pushcha has been and is to conduct monitoring of the forest, namely investigation on growth and changes of the forest, the development of natural successions and natural processes. For this purpose Scientific Permanent Plots (SPP) have been set up in ... See photos and read more here.

February 17, 2010 "Vecherniy Brest" (The Evening Brest) newspaper

Important news: The National Park "Belovezhskaya Pushcha" hopes to get back a European Diploma

A session of the expert group of the Council of Europe will hold in March of this year in Strasbourg. It is supposed that the issues on prolongation of a European Diploma for the National Park "Belovezhskaya Pushcha" will be discussed. "Belarus has fulfilled all requirements necessary for prolongation of the Diploma for the National Park "Belovezhskaya Pushcha", BelTA learned by referring to the ... Read more here.

February 18, 2010 Inessa Zenina, specially for the website "Belovezhskaya Pushcha – 21 Century"

Important publication: Belovezhskaya Pushcha: celebration is over, monotony continues

The pompous celebration of the 600th anniversary of so called "wildlife conservancy" in Belovezhskaya Pushcha left its real history in the shadow while the site’s coming days are not optimistic at all. There are no problems. But there are bark beetles. A Management Plan. Plans from the Presidential Administrative Department. So what did we actually celebrate? ... Read more here.

February 15, 2010 Website "Belta"

Important news: Belarus to fulfill necessary requirements on prolongation of a European Diploma for Belovezhskaya Pushcha

Belarus has fulfilled all requirements necessary for prolongation of a European Diploma for the National Park Belovezhskaya Pushcha, the BelTA's reporter learned from the head of the Department of Biological and Landscape Diversity of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment Protection Natalia Minchenko. A long-term management plan for the natural area of the National Park was developed with participation of ... Read more here.

February 15, 2010 Website "TUT.BY"

Important news: The management of the Berezinski Biosphere Reserve to be under examination

A deputy director of the Berezinski Biosphere Reserve is under suspicion of abuse of his official power, the BelTA Information Agency learned from the General Office of Public Prosecutor of Belarus. "The Office of Public Prosecutor of the Lepel district has initiated the criminal case according to Part 3 of Clause 424 of the Criminal Code of Belarus ("Abusing by official power") against the deputy director of ... Read more here.

February 14, 2010 Website "The Virtual Brest"

Important news: The decision to construct the Baranovichi bypass road and the highway around Belovezhskaya Pushcha National Park

The Prime Minister Sergei Sidorsky reported on it during the meeting with the President Alexander Lukashenko as it is quoted from BelTA News Agency: The Government has taken the decision to construct the Baranovichi bypass road and the highway around the Belovezhskaya Pushcha National Park. The situation concerning the city of Baranovichi is very clear as the road is possibly in need there, whereas the construction of a big road across the protected area causes worry that the harm to the nature of the unique reserve will be ... Read more here.

February 13, 2010 The electronic dispatch "ISEU Discussion"

Important news: Great achievements of wildlife preservation in Ukraine

The President of Ukraine Victor Yushchenko has signed a Law of Ukraine No 1826-6 "On Modification in the Law of Ukraine "On Natural Reserved Fund of Ukraine" on February 21, 2010. This Law was developed by the Kiev Ecological and Cultural Centre and the State Service of Wildlife at the Ministry of Nature Protection of Ukraine. It considerably strengthens the status of protection of the natural protected territories. In particular, now the Law:
1. Forbids any kinds of tourism, including ecological and educational ones in natural reserves.
2. Forbids hunting in buffer zones of natural reserves.
3. Forbids hunting in national parks, biosphere reserves and national preserves. ... Read more here.

January 26, 2010 Margarita Pushchkevich, "Narodnaya Volya" (The People's Will) newspaper

Important publication: Hunting at desire of the Belarusian TV in Belovezhskaya Pushcha

Belarus is only the country in Europe where the problem of municipal shelters for animals is not settled, despite universal duty from dogs' owners. Belarusian television has no one information programs about this problem and it tells about our attitude towards animals too. Our address to the head of the Belarusian TV and Radio company Alexander Zimovsky in connection with creation of permanent weekly broadcast about humane treatment with animals had no result. Besides the Belarusian television removes every plot that Moscow news show sometimes. We have our own "priorities". For example, it is a film "Hunting in Belovezhskaya Pushcha" that was showing on the First National TV-channel. Worst of all, this film where the shots are roaring, the dogs are licking the hot blood of dead animals off and the murder is promoted as the amusement was shown at two o’clock p.m. and our children of any age could see it. Who can know what result can be from the watching this film and how can the child’s mind react to it? ... Read more here.

February 13, 2010 BP-21 Website News Service

Photo-fact: Artificial planting at sites on which the relic forest was cut down. Overall results. 2006 - 2009

In 2003 the technology of large-scale artificial planting made by application of mould-board ploughs was brought into practice in Belovezhskaya Pushcha in protected sites of felled spruce stands affected by bark beetles and in thinning stands. This topic was described in detail on the older pages "Artificial planting at sites on which the primeval forest was cleared, spring 2003" and ... See photos and read more here.

February 11, 2010 Inna Garmel, "Belorusskaya Niva" (The Belarusian Field) newspaper Publication: Tourist in addition

What will natural protected territories get from business dealing with rest? The River of Pripiat in the Belarusian Polesie area is one of the most beautiful places which I could see in my life. I visited it almost four years ago but surprising images are still fresh in memory. But is it pertinent to allow the human intervention onto this beauty? Maybe, should natural protected areas be made places where, for example, tourists are forbidden to enter? These ideas came after I learned that the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment Protection of the Republic of Belarus has made a list of especially protected natural territories perspective for tourism development. It includes 37 areas. The Berezinski Biosphere Reserve, national park "Belovezhskaya Pushcha" and others are there.
Read more in Russian here or use a special (web)software to translate the text.

February 10, 2010 Antonina Khokimova, "Vecherniy Brest" (The Evening Brest) newspaper Publication: A good hand at the blacksmith's work

By the 600th anniversary of Belovezhskaya Pushcha the forge shop "Heat-bird" got a considerable order for manufacturing of souvenirs. Blacksmiths Sergei Satsiuk and his sister Anna Ivaniuk were ordered to make 30-liter bear barrels. They made them beautiful and unusual. These original souvenirs obviously were to representatives of foreign delegations which arrived for celebrations liking. The blacksmith's work long since (and to this day) is considered as the men's prerogative. Very likely, Anna made horseshoes most of all and she liked to give them to her friends – just for lick.
Read more in Russian here or use a special (web)software to translate the text.

February 09, 2010 Website "BelTA" News: Especially protected natural territories are getting for tourism development in Belarus

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment Protection of Belarus has defined a list of especially protected natural territories of a great potential for development of the tourist activity as a BelTA correspondent learned in the Ministry. The list includes 37 especially protected natural territories. The Berezinski Biosphere Reserve, national parks "Belovezhskaya Pushcha", "Braslav Lakes", ... Read more here.

February 05, 2010 Inessa Zenina, Belarusian Green Portal

Important publication: What "capital" to start a Year of Biodiversity in Belarus?

The UN General Assembly has proclaimed 2010 an International Year of Biodiversity. It means recognition worldwide of the basic importance of a biological diversity for the people's life on the planate Earth. It is good time to recollect problems which exist in Belarus in the field of conservation of biodiversity. Foreign species break the natural balance. Native (aboriginal) species of flora and fauns disappear. Terrorism against species. Shameful hunting. A plan will rescue biodiversity. Read more in Russian here or use a special (web)software to translate the text.

February 04, 2010 "Vechermiy Brest" (The Evening Brest) newspaper News: A circulation of bison in the nature

Agricultural enterprises of the Pruzhany district located very close to Belovezhskaya Pushcha suffered from incursions of hungry bison. In this winter the geography of damage is much wider. Enterprises located rather far from the National Park now suffer. For example ... Read more here.

February 05, 2010 Alexander Gamov, "Komsomolskaya Pravda" (The Komsomol Truth) newspaper Publication: Hunting of Russian Tsar Nikolai II more closely resembled slaughter, while General Secretary Stalin set traps for polar foxes

It can be learned from a new book of Kremlin historians called "Hunting and Politics". The book contains hundreds of rare photos and documents, majority of them has being kept in the Kremlin archives under a stamp "Secret". We publish fragments telling about how the Emperor Nikolai II, and Soviet leaders Stalin, Khrushchev and Brezhnev and their circle hunted . Nikolai II examines trophies after hunting in Belovezhskaya Pushcha.A plan will rescue biodiversity. See photos and read more in Russian here or use a special (web)software to translate the text.

January 26, 2010 "Sovetskaya Belorussia" (The Soviet Byelorussia) newspaper

Important news: A monitoring of painful points

Formalism and bureaucratism is a factor which can lead to nothing the best undertakings...
Commentary:
It's the good and well-timed publication. At the session of the District Council in September I as a Deputy have made two inquiries about the heartless attitude of the management of the National Park "Belovezhskaya Pushcha" towards residing the employees in the departmental habitation. The Emergency Situations Ministry and a village council have reacted while the National Park was not.
The Emergency Situations Ministry's service has surveyed buildings and has written out an instruction obliged to absolute covenant for execution. A few days ago I have received an answer of an official from the Department of Affairs of the President of the Republic of Belarus and I send its copy to hand over Natalia Petkevich. It is obvious from the answer how commissions of our President are carried out in Belovezhskaya Pushcha - a criminal case for illegal collective hunting at the core of the strictly protected zone of the Yazvinskoe forest area in our ... Read more here.

January 05, 2010 Denis Gerasimenko, Wildlife.by Publication: Through a prism of centuries

The classic of the Belarusian culture Mikolaj Hussowczyk in his texts pointed descendants at love and care of forest. The descendants have not forgotten the order of the classic. After centuries Belovezhskaya Pushcha, a scrap of the ancient and virgin forest, is saved. A sensation. "Ancient" evidences. When Belovezhskaya Pushcha became Belovezhskaya. Royal hunting. In Russian possession. The "Imperial" Pushcha. The First World War. A bison's tragedy. A Gering's plan. Since September of 1991 a status of Belovezhskaya Pushcha was changed from State Protected Hunting Game Ground to State National Park. See photos and read more in Russian here or use a special (web)software to translate the text.

February 10, 2010 BP-21 Website News Service

Photo-fact: Artificial reafforestation on former agricultural lands and uncultivated grounds, 2006 - 2009

In 2004 the National Park "Belovezhskaya Pushcha" has greatly extended its territory thanks to incorporation of new and big in size areas of adjoining agriculture collective farms and timber enterprises. After that works on reafforestation have started on abandoned agricultural and uncultivated grounds. This is of great nature protection importance as a forest which will grow there in the future bears in ... Read more and see photos here.

February 10, 2010 BP-21 Website News Service

Photo-fact: Bark beetles and friendly-ecological cuttings down, 2007 - 2009

Bark beetles pose an interesting, difficult and multi-level problem on the specially protected natural territories. The timber business regards the influence of bark beetle as a negative one to the forest, since they destruct spruce stands (and quite often on large areas). Still, the environmental role Bark beetles play in the forest, especially on areas with a primary character, is... Read more and see photos here.

February 10, 2010 BP-21 Website News Service

Photo-fact: Cutting down of living trees in bark beetle centers, 2007

It has already been shown earlier that numerous violations of the nature protection law and forestry-technological standards for cuttings down in spruce stands growing in protected compartments have been committed in the National Park "Belovezhskaya Pushcha" since the very beginning of bark beetles' mass development and their outbreaks' appearance (2001). In particular, an attempt to start ... Read more and see photos here.

December 15, 2009 BP-21 Website News Service

Photo-fact: The cleaning up and landscaping of the Kamenyuki territory, 2009

After all major road, residential, backyard and infrastructural repair was complete, and the greenery was refreshed, builders cleaned up and landscaped the area around the main street, and residential and other buildings. The shots below show the adding of fertile soil to the ground in the small park near ... Read more and see photos here.

December 14, 2009 BP-21 Website News Service

Photo-fact: Construction of a gas station in Kamenyuki, 2005

In 2005, the Belarusneft oil company funded the construction of a filling station in the village of Kamenyuki, the administrative and tourist center of the Belovezhskaya Pushcha National Park. The station is designed to serve 250 vehicles per day. It was built by a construction company based in the oblast center of Brest. In the 1990’s, Kamenyuki had a small private service station located ... Read more and see photos here.

February 07, 2010 BP-21 Website News Service

Photo-fact: An attempt of the investigation of illegal cutting down living Ash trees of old age in protected compartments, 2007

In 2005 a case of the illegal cutting down living Ash trees of old age in the protected compartment 803 of the Korolevo-Mostovskoe area was described and was shown in photos. Eight trees had been cut down. Fats and the proofs of the illegal cutting down are given by clicking the above specified link, and in the separate explanation. In 2007, an attempt to investigate this "dark business" was made in connection with an administrative legal action for slander against ... Read more and see photos here.

February 03, 2010 Irina Orlova, "Narodnaya Gazeta" (The People’s Newspaper) Newspaper Publication: Not losing speed

According to the National System of Monitoring, the environment of the Brest region is characterized by the steady and positive dynamics. Two national holidays – a festival-fair of rural working people "2009 Reaping" in the town of Kobrin and the 600th anniversary of the establishing the reserved status in Belovezhskaya Pushcha - have passed in the Year of Native Land in the Brest region. "All this needed more operative and weighed approaches in the decision-making concerning nature protection tasks", the head of the Regional Committee of Natural Resources and Environment Protection Tamara Yalkovskaya says. What else remarkable was for ecologists of the Brest land last year? ... Read more in Russian here or use a special (web)software to translate the text.

February 03, 2010 "Respublika" (The Republik) newspaper News: A half-million visitor

Alexander Onufriyuk from the city of Brest has become a half-million visitor of a residence of Farther Frost in Belovezhskaya Pushcha. Coming there last weekend to have a rest, he has bought a ticket to the fantastic estate. The ticket has appeared a 500-thousand one sold since the opening door in winter of 2003. The main Belarusian Father Frost has presented to ... Read more here.

February 02, 2010 Website "TUT.BY" News: A half-million visitor to meet in an estate of Father Frost in Belovezhskaya Pushcha

A half-million visitor, a citizen of Brest, was met in an estate of Father Frost in Belovezhskaya Pushcha. The lucky visitor was handed with a photo-album specially issued by the celebration of the 600th anniversary of the reserve. The book tells about... Read more here.

January 30, 2010 Individual website "Picture post cards" News: Fedor Ivanovich Doroshevich (born in 1905) – "In Belovezhskaya Pushcha. Bison"

Painter Fedor Ivanovich Doroshevich (born in 1905). The Russian school. "In Belovezhskaya Pushcha. Bison", 1960. ... See the picture here.

January 29, 2010 Vasiliy Smirnov, "Voice of Russia" Publication: What Belovezhskaya Pushcha kept secrets about

How did former USSR's heads, first and general secretaries, other high-ranking officials of the state and noble foreign visitors have a rest in Belovezhskaya Pushcha? The Belarusian organizers of the press-tour have decided to show us Belovezhskaya Pushcha – renovated and, as the saying goes, in all its beauty. It has turned from a state protected game hunting ground to a national park. Belovezhskaya Pushcha, as its today's owners from the Department of Affairs of the President of the Republic of Belarus assert, started the new life. The reserve actually had a hard time to save it from destruction. General secretaries and presidents Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Gorbachev, Eltsin. Read more in Russian here or use a special (web)software to translate the text.

January 25, 2010 Website "Infobaza.by" News: The Belarusian road-building service to sum up the last year work's balance and to determine tasks for 2010

Basic tasks for 2010. The head of the state has charged the Ministry of Transport and Communications and the Brest and Grodno Regional Executive Committees with the work of ensuring in 2010 and 2011 the building of the bypass road with the engineering infrastructure around the territory of the National Park "Belovezhskaya ... Read more here.

January 22, 2010 Website "TUT.BY" News: An admirer of Belovezhskaya Pushcha who pilfered a gift photo-album "Belovezhskaya Pushcha" in a book shop to be condemned in the Polotsk town

The court sentence upon a 22-year guy who pilfered the gift photo-album "Belovezhskaya Pushcha" in the book shop of the Polotsk town was passed. The court has condemned the pilferer to one-year restriction of freedom. Reparation of ... Read more here.