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Last updated on February 23, 2001
The ENA's main activity is the dissemination of reliable information through newspapers and magazines. Kazakhstan has many environmental problems (e.g.. the Aral Sea). Almost all the regions of Kazakhstan are plagued by ecological problems and air, land or water pollution. In 1995 the Kazakhstan Human Development Report was compiled by Kazakhstan's experts with the technical assistance of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). The human development index showed that the regions of Kazakhstan have the some of the lowest development ratings. The most affected region is Southern Kazakhstan, which not only has high unemployment but also suffers from a critical ecological situation.
Kazakhstan's newspapers do publish information about ecological problems, but not regularly or systematically. The ENA hopes to correct this situation.
The Greenwomen ENA works with NGO Green groups and with school teachers who are active in environmental activity and education. The ENA cooperates with Green groups and newspapers throughout Central Asia. We also work with scientists and experts from governmental environmental organizations.
Several experienced ecological journalists work with Greenwomen, including:
1. Lydia Astanina
Head of the Greenwomen Ecological News Agency
Koktem 2, 2-73, Almaty, 480070 KAZAKHSTAN
Tel. and Fax: (7-3272) 47-45-37
Email: root@greenwomen.almaty.kz
2. Svetlana Yunusova
Home Tel. (7-3272) 61-96-82
3. Dana Akhylacova
st. Peace 59|2, 31, Karaganda, 470055,
Kazakhstan
4. Yriy Byruh
st. Gagarina, 19 - 105, Ust-Kamenogorsk, 492010
Kazakhstan
5. Ludmila Sapoznikova-Mann
Head of the (Kyrgyzstan branch) Greenwomen Ecological News Agency
Mikrorayon 8, 9 - 55,
Bishkek, 720075, Kyrgyzstan.
Tel. (7- 3312) 44-04-72, ( 7-3312) 47-53-69
6. Inna Byrova
Head of the (Turkmenistan branch) Greenwomen Ecological News Agency
7. Taniy Alimova
Head of the (Uzbekistan branch) Greenwomen Ecological News Agency
The Greenwomen Ecological News Agency was created in July 1995 on the initiative of women-journalists, specialists in ecological problems.
These women-journalists helped to start the first ecological newspaper in Kazakhstan in 1991. This newspaper was called Ecocourier. A small staff could make an original paper which was then sent through the whole Kazakh Republic. The Ecocourier had a circulation of more than twenty thousand and its readers liked it. The Ecocourier acquainted its readers with the many ecological problems not only in Kazakhstan but all over the world. For example, the Ecocourier supported the action in Republic Turkmenistan against killing the animals entered in the Red Book. A lot of articles on radioactive situation in Kazakhstan, about Aral Sea and Semipalatinsk nuclear test site problems were published in this newspaper.
Unfortunately the Ministry of Ecological and Bioresources of Kazakhstan, to which the Ecocourier was subordinated, didn't support it financially and women-journalists had to leave in 1994. They decided to develop the Greenwomen Ecological News Agency and to continue working in the area of environmental protection and ecology.
Today, the Greenwomen Ecological News Agency is the one and only independent organization in which professional journalists who specialize in ecological problems work. The current state of affairs
Greenwomen Ecological News Agency intends to take part in solving some of the problems shown below.
Greenwomen will publish information on ecological problems in the new newspapers and magazines opened in Kazakhstan after it had become independent.
Greenwomen will help eradicate the ecological illiteracy of Kazakhstan's peoples. According to some investigations one of the main problems of stable development in Kazakhstan is a shortage of text-books and special courses in elementary and higher schools.
Activities of the military and industrial complex of former Soviet Union caused a huge damage to the environment. Greenwomen intends to inform people all over the world about the results of air and underground explosions at the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site, and in Kustanay, Akmolinsk and Aktiubinsk regions.
One of the most serious problems in Kazakhstan is nuclear waste storage.. Besides being a well known cosmodrome, Baikonur is also an extremely dangerous site because of toxic emissions from rockets and missile launches.
The largest industrial enterprises in Kazakhstan had polluted air, soil and water for a long period. Now, a lot of regions such as Ust- Kamenogorsk, Shimkent, Zhambul, Aktiubinsk are polluted with various toxic ingredients, for example lead and zinc.
In addition, there is another huge ecological problem in Kazakhstan, namely the dramatic decline of the level of the Aral Sea. This phenomenon causes a lot of undesirable effects such as the diminution of the fisheries and increased soil salinity. It affects the population's health and the living conditions of plants, animals and birds.
This ecological situation calls for a wide distribution of full ecological information. This would help in the solution of the many ecological problems by attracting general attention to non-governmental groups activities and by involving new advocates of environmental protection. The mission of Greenwomen
The mission of our organization is to promote a new ecological mentality of the population through mass-media, publication of bulletins and reports on ecological subjects . Another area of work is the organization of workshops and round-table discussions on ecological and environmental protection themes.
Essential for the project is to create a special information center which will inform wide strata of population concerning ecological problems and environmental protection. This center is to be called the Town of the 21st Century. For this purpose there must be maintained contacts with the CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States) and other countries in order to obtain and exchange information with journalists from different states. Tasks of the project
1. Creation of the Center of Ecological Information called "The Town of 21 Century". It will be a database for wide strata of population. It will include various information such as municipal and liquid wastes; ecological education; conditions of the people migrating out of polluted areas; problems of cleaner production; air, water, soil and food pollution; emissions from traffic; desertification, nuclear waste, and many others.
2. Supporting a stable journalist network and exchanging information between environmental journalists from Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and many other countries around the world.
3. Organization of workshops concerning ecological education and distribution of ecological information.
4. Issue of bulletins, newspapers, reports on ecological problems and stable human development.
5. Developing contacts with journalists, scientists, NGOs from the CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States) and developed countries.
6. Developing a data base for journalists and other interested persons.
7. Publishing ecological information in newspapers, speaking on radio and TV.
8. Issuing bulletins, reports, newspapers on ecological subjects.
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