Deputy Director for the Protection of the Astrakhan Biosphere Reserve, Igor Kudryavtsev, said that the damage caused by the recent severe fire in the reserve amounted to 0.5 billion rubles. It has been reported TASS.
According to Kudryavtsev, the fire in the Obzhorovsky section of the reserve was the most devastating fire of the past few years. It was extinguished three days later.
He added that the reeds died due to the fire, but the most valuable parts of the forest, the places where the birds nest, were saved.
“Especially the Volga Delta and the Astrakhan Reserve have firmly established the name “Bird Hotel”, where more than 300 bird species live and migrate all year round. But the bird population has a malicious enemy – fire, always caused by human error, ”Shared Kudryavtsev.
Fire in the Astrakhan Reserve started March 15. The area of the fire was about 3 thousand hectares.