A fire has been burning for five days in the most valuable steppe area of Dzharylhach National Nature Park, a zone of absolute protection established in 1974.
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The most valuable steppe area in Dzharylhach National Nature Park has been on fire for five days.
The area burning for five days is a zone of absolute protection in the national park, where even human visits are restricted.
The main part of all steppe ecosystems of the island is concentrated here, along with the population of all rare steppe animals on the island.
This area received the protection status as a reserve back in 1974.
Dzharylhach has been under Russian occupation since the first days of the full-scale invasion.
Farmers in occupied Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions are forced to sell wheat at fixed prices much lower than market rates.
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