Kyiv Ecological and Cultural Center

Founded in 1989, KECC is active in the fields of nature conservation, bio-diversity protection, and support to environmental NGOs. Its main project, Love of Nature, seeks to promote the development of an environmental ethic in Ukraine and the former USSR, similar to the ideology that was developed in America by such writers as John Muir, Henry Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson. It believes that environmental projects do not receive wide public support because they are presented in an overly scientific or economic manner. As part of the Love of Nature project, KECC has published and distributed a collection of books, including Ethical and Aesthetic Approach in Nature Conservation, Nature and People of Kyiv Rus, and Environmental Traditions, Beliefs, and Religious Views of Slavonic and Other Peoples, as well as translations of foreign literature. It has organized numerous seminars and workshops on environmental ethics for NGOs and schools and, in 1998, started publishing the e-mail bulletin Love of Nature.

KECC has also organized seminars for journalists and teachers, collected data on the environmental consequences of militarism, and started a program to promote public monitoring of acid rain. It has a staff of seven.

Last updated:    February 1999

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