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Proposals for the Establishment of the System of Long-Term Environmental Monitoring in the Natural Reserves Located in the Dnipro Basin
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5. PROPOSALS FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE SYSTEM OF LONG-TERM ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING IN THE NATURAL RESERVES LOCATED IN THE DNIPRO BASIN
Judging by the experience gained as a result of project implementation and of monitoring assessment, it is possible to make the following proposal: it is necessary to create a system of long-term monitoring to control environmental changes of the natural reserves located in the Dnipro basin on a regular basis.
The program and parameters of monitoring can be significantly cut down at the expense of reduction of chemical research of the biota and environment components. To determine water quality it is only sufficient to measure several parameters, such as pH, BOD5, ammonium nitrogen, nitrate nitrogen, and content of oxygen, for times a year, by season. It is sufficient to carry a more profound chemical analysis can be carried out only once in five years for comparison with the available data.
It is necessary to discover the nature of higher concentrations of metals (iron, cooper, and manganese) in water samples according to a special research program.
To define the air quality in the administrative centers of the reserves, it is essential to take samples and analyze them by their basic ingredients (suspended substances, carbon oxide, nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide) on a daily basis.
It is sufficient to carry the analysis of bottom sediments and soils for heavy metals and radio nuclides once in five years.
Biodiversity assessment, registration of species and their numbers must be made on a daily basis.
We assume that the services of the reserves will make the basis for monitoring, especially in the part that concerns biodiversity.
Judging by the fact that monitoring of the environmental changes is poorly developed in the natural reserves under analysis, it is possible to infer that it is also underdeveloped in other Dnipro basin natural reserves. That is why it is necessary to expand the network of monitoring stations to other natural reserves located in the Dnipro basin. We propose to include the following projects in the Strategic Action Program:
- Setting up of the stations for long-term monitoring of the environmental changes in the Dnipro basin reserves on the basis of biological indicators;
- Setting up of joint Russian-Ukrainian protected areas (adjacent to “Nerusso-Desniansky Polesie” and the “Khotmyzhsky” national park) and organization of a long-term environmental monitoring there;
- Creation of “The Dnipro Source” natural reserve of international importance;
- Rehabilitation of the Upper Dnipro’s ecosystem based on data of environmental monitoring of the reserve as an essential stage of solving the problem of transboundary pollution in the river.
