Two years ago, the NOVA KAJOVKA Dam blast In Ukraine he filled pages and headlines. After a Russian attack “That Russia reproached the Ukrainian troops without evidence.” Some occurred floods without controlwhich affected as already damaged areas as Jersón and surroundings. The neighbors had to escape or resist as the arrival of floods could leave the environment without resources, such as.
Time passed and after human and material damage caused by the destruction of the dam, the nature found its own direction with the recovery of the lands of the background of the old dam.
International media have echoed the region transformationin what has been called a “great natural experiment in development.” The British newspaper The Guardian It indicates an immense forest that has emerged at the scene of the dam.
The problem, the newspaper adds, is that Said Forest of Sauces could disappear so fast as it appeared.
It is, by obvious logic, Young trees that despite their little time they have gained enough height. A radically different landscape from that at the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
“This is Veliki Luh, the great meadow,” acknowledges the neighbor Valeri BabkoExprophesor of History and Veteran Army. Talk about “one Ancient and mythical land of Ukrainian folklore. Think of all those Cossack galloping for their valleys so densely tree -lined that the sun could barely penetrate [la vegetación]”.
They are very past time memories. In 1956add the newspaper, everything changed, with the Construction by the USSR of the dam and the Kajovka hydroelectric power plant, which flooded the whole region and leaving the forested “memories’ underwater.
The researchers and neighbors remaining in one of the areas most beaten by Russia are concerned, however, the future of this renewed vegetation. Mainly because the bombings and mines They have devastated much of the environment, even among attacks.
Therefore, the Chemical and heavy metal pollution restless To control this problem, Plans are to restore up to 80% of the original ecosystem which was lost with the construction of the dam in the next five years. As long as the terrain ‘clean’ of the remains of a war that today remains without an end in sight.
