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Biodiversity. Pressure

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In such cities as Kyiv is and not far from them there is an especially actual problem of natural environment degradation and loss of biological diversity. A situation becomes complicated because of the number of population grew much for relatively short time interval. Regarding for an intensive anthropogenic influence (different pollution ways, intensive building, recreation pressure and etc.), Kyiv forest-parks with the area of hundreds hectares are of great importance from point of view of environment protection.

Among the biological diversity decrease factors one can pick out a territorial transformation of biotopes (from fragmentation to their full annihilation) as well as recreation pressure, pollution (including acoustic). The addition to them is uncontrolled wild plant picking, fishing for sale.


 

 
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