The Belovezhskaya Pushcha ? 21st Century Website

I recently found information abot the Initiative Group "Belovezhskaya Pushcha — XXI Century". It is a public project executed by the people who consider Belovezhskaya Pushcha as a natural and spiritual sanctity and who did not spare time and energy to contribute its preservation.

For more information please visit: pushcha-xxi@tut.by

Photo: Vyacheslav Aleshko

The Belovezhskaya Pushcha — 21^st Century Website

The Web-site "The Belovezhskaya Pushcha - 21^st Century" has begun its work. This site is dedicated to providing information about the problems of the protection and conservation of the Belovezhskaya Pushcha National Park - this unique nook of wilderness in the center of Europe.

At present, The Belovezhskaya Pushcha, which is a National Park, a Biosphere Reserve, and part of the World Heritage, is in danger. There has been intensive activity started in the unique wilderness complex using unsound economic and management methods that threaten to destroy this unique virgin forest.

If the current management policies of destroying this ancient relict forest are not stopped today, then tomorrow will be too late. In this scenario the Belovezhskaya Pushcha will be transformed into specialized forest management enterprise where, under the guise of "wilderness conservation" or "nature protection" the remnants of the primeval old-aged Belovezha forest, ancient flora and fauna species will be ruined. The huge tree stumps and steady unnatural lines of artificial forest regeneration will be all that is left to show to the tourists.

Consequently, anyone interested in the natural heritage of Belarus and the Belovezhskaya Pushcha Forest, and you would like to preserve it for future generations, we would like to ask you to support our efforts in protecting this unique part of Belorussian Nature.

Please read more on this beautiful website.

It also contains a lot of other information (links) to Bialowieski Park Narodowy