The fight for the environment unites

Volunteers from Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus and the Czech Republic will take part in environmental expeditions in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District (YANAO). The volunteers will go on expeditions to the villages of Salemal and Seyakha, as well as to the island of Vilkitsky in the Kara Sea, the press service of the regional government reported.





The government said that eco-volunteers listened to lectures in the format of webinars for a month and a half, solved tests on ecology, getting an idea about the Arctic as a whole and environmental activities in the territory of Yamal.

The total duration of the lectures was more than 30 hours



Industrial waste accumulated in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District, including on the island of Vilkitsky, after the first wave of intensive development of Yamal, which occurred in the 1960s and 1970s. Then, when developing hydrocarbon deposits, the environmental standards of industrial activity were less strict, as a result, a large number of so-called objects of accumulated damage were formed. Since 2017, the Green Arctic volunteers have been carrying out ecological cleaning of the cluttered territories of the uninhabited Vilkitsky Island in the Kara Sea. During four years of work on the island, the volunteers managed to extract more than 500 tons of scrap metal and other waste, collect more than 4,000 barrels of fuel and dismantle 6 km of pipeline.