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The Impact of Conventional War on Natural Areas of the USSR

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Nicolai N. Smirnov
Nicolai N. Smirnov
Affiliation:
Institute of Evolutionary Morphology & Ecology of Animals, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Leninsky Prospekt 33, 117071 Moscow B-71, USSR.
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Military destruction by conventional arms of both terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems is described, with emphasis placed on the effects of World Wars I and II on the territory of the USSR (especially of Russia, Byelorussia, and Ukraine). It is shown that a wide range of serious damage is done in terrestrial natural areas: to forests which may be decimated, to mammals which are commonly killed, and to the land which is extensively disturbed and rendered infertile or even uncultivable. Inland waters, too, are widely disturbed, though numerous new bodies of water may be formed in various ways, while fisheries are commonly disturbed, though ‘Wartime military activities can greatly reduce fish catches, to the benefit of fish populations.’

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Environmental Conservation , Volume 16 , Issue 4 , Winter 1989 , pp. 317 - 321
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Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1989

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