More than 6.5 thousand km of rivers in the Far East are polluted by gold miners

River monitoring was carried out from March 15 to October 15 this year in six regions of the Far East (FE

) organization “Rivers Without Borders” withsupport WWF Russia and the Presidential Grants Fund, as well as the project “People — nature." During the work, rivers were studied in Transbaikalia, the Amur region, the Jewish Autonomous Okrug, Khabarovsk, Primorsky and Kamchatka territories.

Based on the results of observations, 205 cases were discoveredpollution. More than half of them are in the Amur region: the total length of contaminated areas there is 3,921 thousand kilometers. 

In second place is Transbaikalia.50 cases of violations were identified there, and the length of contaminated areas exceeded 2 thousand kilometers. In the Khabarovsk Territory, gold miners polluted about 494 kilometers of rivers, in Kamchatka - 105 kilometers, in the Jewish Autonomous Region and in the Primorsky Territory, pollution spread over 70 and 20 kilometers, respectively.

Based on the results of observations, the perpetrators were dischargedfines for 3.6 million rubles. Of this amount, more than 2.1 million rubles fell on the Amur Region. Claims were also filed for compensation in the amount of almost 16.4 million rubles.

Read also:

Hidden gene responsible for pandemic found in genome of coronavirus

The Doomsday glacier turned out to be more dangerous than scientists thought. We tell the main thing

It turned out that the universe is heating up. Temperature has increased 10 times in 10 billion years