Drainage will simply destroy this population. As a resalt, tens thousand differents ducks, corncrakes, thousands storks, which are still inhabiting the flood-lands of the river, will disappear. There is a correlation between the diversity of species, inhabited here and agricaltural traditions. The rare species are bred on the meadows, where the cattle pulled the grass out. In some places drainage work is being done already.
Every day buckets of excavators gnaw the land.
We can't but see that it will tel on the climate. If all the plans on the drinnage of half of marshed areas are realized, the result of peat mineralization, to atmosphere will be thown almost as much carbonic acid as it is thrown by all motorcars in Germany per year. Enlargement of agricultural areas in this way is nonsense both economically and ecologically. In Westen Europe people have realized it today. We and Byelorussian scientists, and conservationists try to prove that there are other ways.