Description
The Kachkarsky Mar Ecopark is an urban park in Orenburg. It is located near the village of Rostoshi and is bounded by a country highway on the other side. Orienteering competitions are held here in summer and ski racing in winter. The predominant tree species are scots pine, green ash, and sparsely represented are pinnate elm, hanging birch, ash maple, and Siberian larch.
The Kachkarsky Mar tract is located on the territory of the city of Orenburg, bounded by Zagorodny Highway, Tselinnaya Street, Kostyukova Street, Gazpromovskaya Street in the village of Rostoshi.
The park's territory is shrinking year after year. According to some sources, today the entire ida occupies just over 600 hectares of land, according to others – about 500, according to others – less than 420 hectares. That is, the area of the Kachkarsky tract has been shortened by 150 hectares over the past ten years.
In February 2018, activists of the regional branch of the All-Russian Popular Front in the Orenburg Region launched an initiative to expand the area of the green forest belt around the regional center and to develop a sports and recreational area for skiing in the Kachkarsky Mar forest park complex. A round table was organized to discuss the creation of a "Green Shield" in Orenburg, a zone that will be under special protection. It is forbidden to cut down trees in forests on lands near settlements, develop deposits of natural resources, and place spontaneous and specialized landfills. Capital construction is also prohibited on the territory of the Green Shield, unless it concerns infrastructure facilities for healthcare, education, tourism, recreational and physical education activities. Orenburg's Green Shield should grow in size, and the surroundings of Kachkarka Mountain should become an equipped sports and recreation complex where you can relax and train. At the round table, a proposal was made to include the Kachkar Mar in the federal target program "Development of physical culture and Sports in the Russian Federation for 2016-2020".
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