Ecological Impacts of Ukraine's War: Threatened Species and Renewable Energy Setbacks

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In this video:
- Botanists at the Ukraine Nature Conservation Group have listed 20 steppe species that they believe may disappear due to the war. Most, they say, are endemic to the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea, “the largest centre of endemism on the territory of Ukraine,” with 44 plant species found nowhere else on Earth.
- A particular concern is the many coal mines abandoned after 2014. With the pumping of water halted, they have so far released some 650,000 acre-feet of polluted mine water into the environment, according to Serhii Ivaniuta of the National Institute for Strategic Studies in Kyiv.
Resource: Yale Environment360 data
- Much of Ukraine’s renewable power capacity is located in the South and East of the country, where active fighting is taking place. The Ukrainian NGO Ekodiya reports that more than half of Ukraine’s wind farms have already been shut down, along with other renewable energy installations.
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