Karelian Humane Society
In addition, the signing of the Kyoto Protocol gives the State an opportunity to participate directly in discussions of global environmental problems on the forums international scale. Moscow enveloped with smoke from the incinerators in recent worldwide trend is the decline in household and industrial waste. The garbage crisis in Italy has once again made clear how urgent the problem for humanity. Think about it, and in Russia. By 2012, the government of the Russian capital plan to halve the amount of waste in Moscow, subject to landfills. For example, planned to reduce the disposal of municipal waste in landfills of non-residential sector from 81% to 20-38% of solid household waste and bulky waste from 80% to 27-37%, and the waste of medical institutions from 99 to 12.8%. In addition, the Russian Capital will soon become one of the world's centers of incineration, as will soon appear in Moscow on 6 more incinerators in addition to the already existing four. And it threatens the capital to environmental degradation, so as incineration plants daily to the atmosphere will be disposed of 60 million cubic meters gas from the combustion of solid waste.
Flue gases of waste incineration plants, even under current emissions standards, are enriched by harmful substances – heavy metals, dioxins and furans, sulfur oxides and nitrogen, which is very negative impact on the health of the citizens and guests of the capital. In Russia, celebrated the International Day for pups on March 15 in Russia, as in most of the world celebrated the International Day for pups. In many countries this day there were demonstrations and pickets against the killing of pups – baby seals. And, as a rule, look demonstrators had been sent to Russia – the only country in the world where not prohibited by this massive and inhumane killing of seal pups. Because of its beautiful white fur tens of thousands of pups are killed on the White Sea coast in the region.
It is in this region of Russia is a massive and bloody fish. Murder of pups is very cruel: pups slaughtered to death with iron dubinami.ECOportal.ru previously reported about the past in late February and early March, events and pickets in protect pups. Last week, Karelian Humane Society held in Petrozavodsk decade in protecting pups. But, unfortunately, numerous and regularly held shares and the pickets did not solve the problem fundamentally pups manner. This issue should be resolved at the highest level. However, last week the State Duma has postponed discussion on the bottomhole fishery pups. In the meantime, environmentalists and activists to protect animals continue to collect signatures in defense of pups. Since March 12, Deputy Oleg Mitvol received a collective appeal of citizens to ban catches of harp seal pups (pups), under which their signatures to put more than 335,000 Russians.