As environmentalists inform, on the right bank of River Achipse, which is a part of the Caucasian Preserve, Gazprom company and its contractors in the framework of preparation for Olympics-2014 carry out large-scale construction works that damage natural sites of the world heritage.
      
      1.5 km of asphalted road, technological roads, and a capital bridge have been constructed in the preserve. Bank stabilizations works are turning the river into a channel, with its bottom and banks laid with gabions. The banks and the riverbed have become open-cast mines for extraction of stone for packing gabions.
      
      According to ecologists, the same destiny is prepared for another preserved river - Laura: in its downstream starting from the confluence with River Achipse, the channel is also dug all over and gabions are being laid.
      
      “Laura and Achipse have become a mud stream, in which hardly any fish can survive. Earlier these rivers were a spawning place for the Red Book trout. Now their spawning value has been lost. Probably, works are also carried out upstream Laura, but it was impossible to get there” — activists point out.
      
      Source: rosbalt.ru
Author: Vera Ivanova