Something with our country clearly wrong. Volga, one of the largest rivers in Europe, obmelela. Siberia burns so, it is necessary to put out already with the help of the military. And now catastrophically became shallow and Lena, the deepest Russian River. What is going on, and who is to blame - "liberals", Chinese, changing of the climate, or all together?
Lena River - the largest in Russia, It passes through Yakutia and the Irkutsk Region. Its tributaries originate in the Amur region and Buryatia, Krasnoyarsk, Khabarovsk and the Trans-Baikal territories. This is the main water artery of Yakutia, connecting it with the "mainland". The river passes the bulk of the "northern delivery". Lena is traditionally rich in fish resources, it live 37 species.
rather, It was rich. Now all of the above under the big question. Representative of the company, dedicated to river transport, Boris explains Stroyev, that the river became shallow critically:
Can not "Meteora" pass. Can not pass the tanker, know. large fleet, it costs, It can not pass because of the shallow water.
In the regional capital city of Yakutsk, where ships are just standing in the mud and sand, and the water receded. And the right to tankers, but problems even in small vessels, says the owner of the boat Sergey Arigin:
Who else is more or less small boats, can afford to raise their, and who has a bigger boat - still it is hard to. We can not raise the boat and get the same can not, there is less depth 30 centimeters.
And that we are talking about recently even the most affluent Russian River! At the moment, as a transport artery is the de facto ceased to exist. Together with water and fish disappeared naturally, local fishermen complain:
I start shallow river, and fish somewhere has got. How many did not come, I throw - no fish.
All this looks like a full environmental and economic disaster. But how was it possible? How much of what happened "human factor", as well as an irresistible force of nature?
Specially trained people explain to the population, that the case in the rapid climate change:
Yakutia - is one of the most sensitive regions, that react to such changes.
According to environmentalists, at 2013 , Lena also became shallow because of a strong anticyclone, which did not allow it to reach the precipitation. At the same time there is a gradual degradation of permafrost, which leads to the formation subsidence and karst lakes. Well, deny climate change and its impact on the environment would be foolish. But this is not the whole truth.
Unfortunately, clearly seen in the work of the catastrophic human shallowing of the Lena River. easy to see, that the upper reaches of the East Siberian river are precisely in those regions, where now annually terrible raging forest fires. As we previously told, fires are the result of illegal and barbarous deforestation. "Black loggers" demolished at the root of the taiga, than radically disrupt the water balance. Rivers loses water from marshes and rivers of small. Smoke from forest fires not only hinder breathing locals, but also erode the clouds, preventing precipitation. The few rains, that pass, picture does not change, as the water, without stopping, goes to ground.
As a result, even the great Lena turned into becoming dry creek. Blame everything on the climate comfortable, but unfair. An Inconvenient Truth is, Timber harvesting that rampant crime in Siberia became possible only after the adoption of 2006 year of the new Forest Code, who created all conditions for the arrival of "efficient owners". But instead of them "locusts" come, which lays at the root of hundreds of hectares of our forests. Some 13 s enough to ecological catastrophe, not only in the forest, but at once the most affluent Lena Russian River.
If a baker's dozen years, the authorities are not enough, to understand, again say. The woods, river, marsh - a single large body, wherein all interconnected with each other. An urgent need to amend the Forest Code of the Russian Federation, and to recreate the powerful federal forest protection structure, with tens of thousands of foresters, as it was before, with an appropriate budget, powers and material and technical equipment. Otherwise, continue to only get worse.
Author: Sergey Marzhetsky
