Furthermore, the Oil Rehabilitation Projects means that donor nations will invest money to promote greenhouse gas emissions. The three smelters of the Norilsk Nickel Combine is the biggest single source of sulphur emission in the world. As a result of this enormous pollution more than 4,000 square kilometres of larch forest around Norilsk has died over the last 20 years, and another area of the same size is seriously affected. In addition, the poisonous air in Norisk causes severe health problems, including greatly reduced life expectancy for the population. All in all, this is by far the largest area in the world damaged by one single source of air pollution.
Platinum is, among other things, used in catalytic converters for automobiles.
There are problably links between Norisk to most other car producers as well, even if this has not been possible to confirm. The Bikin watershed contains the largest intact, western-slope forests along the Sikhote Alin mountain range. It has the greatest remaining stands of Korean pine and is habitat for the Amur tiger. The Bikin is not fully protected. The Samagara is threatened by the Nelma-Supkai logging road which is currently being built and will open up ancient forests and indigenous people's lands to exploitation.