Duda is destroying Belovezhskaya Pushcha, Lukashenko is trying to save it

News 18.11.2024 | 09:47

MINSK, 18 November (BelTA) – They have decimated Belovezhskaya Pushcha, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko said commenting on the speech of Polish leader Andrzej Duda at the climate summit in Baku, BelTA has learned.

The Polish president spoke a lot about Poland’s efforts to protect animals and plants and about their commitment to nature conservation. Yet, for some reason Andrzej Duda chose to keep silent about the Polish fence in Belovezhskaya Pushcha - a fence that often kills animals and hinders their migration.

Belovezhskaya Pushcha is, by the way, a habitat for bison. If the Poles decided to reduce the already catastrophically low bison population, then the fence is an excellent solution. But why then tell others that Warsaw cares a lot about the animal and plant world?

And what about Belarus? The country’s policy towards this national park has remained unchanged for many years. Let's recall the visit of the Belarusian president to Belovezhskaya Pushcha in 2008. By the way, we showed this footage in the BelTA YouTube project “How It Was”.

While visiting Belovezhskaya Pushcha in spring, the president spoke with the park's employees. The conversation was about infrastructure development in the park and ecotourism in general. This visit, in fact, became a new milestone for the country’s nature conservation and tourism.

It is noteworthy that Aleksandr Lukashenko did not shout from the rooftops about Belarus’ nature conservation efforts. He simply took (and is taking) steps to protect it.

The president also visited the Residence of the Belarusian Father Frost, where he met with tourists. You can also watch this archive piece in our YouTube project “How It Was”. The conversation was full of humor.

We treat our natural resources with great care. And we do not brag about it, because taking care of our nature is par for the course for us. Our children will live here when we are gone. But what the Polish leadership will pass on to their descendants? The question is, as they say, open.

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