United Ecology

A rally in support of three “pain points” of Russian nature - the Khimki forest, Baikal and Utrish - will be held on October 22 at 16.00 on Bolotnaya Square. According to the organizers, the rally “For the Khimki Forest - Baikal - Utrish” is the beginning of a nationwide campaign to save nature; similar actions will be held in other cities of the country in the near future. The organizers are the Movement for the Protection of the Khimki Forest, Greenpeace, WWF, Socio-Ecological Union, Russian Bird Conservation Union, MSU Nature Conservation Team, Wildlife Conservation Center, and the “Save Utrish” movement. According to the organizers, if we do not defend Baikal, Utrish, and the Khimki forest today, tomorrow any valuable or simply important corner of nature for people can be destroyed at the whim of an official or oligarch. The experience of recent mass campaigns has shown that the authorities cannot simply brush aside the mass expression of the will of the people.

The Khimki forest, as we know, is threatened by the construction of the Moscow-St. the most valuable coastal areas of relict forest, which will make it possible to implement plans for the construction of an elite sports and recreational complex of the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation, while the reserved forest itself will cut through the network of roads necessary for this construction.