Participant of ecological action

Participant of the explanatory action among drivers of jeeps of the trophy-raid UkraineTrophy-2011 holds a poster with picture of owl on Maydan Nezalezhnosti in Kiev, on Saturday, July 2, 2011. Activists of environmental organizations held the explanatory action with the presentation of commemorative booklets to the participants of the first international trophy-marathon on a route Kiev-Shatsk Ukraine Trophy, which starts on July 2. According to one participant, on the eve of the race participants presented to ecologists a new route, which bypasses the preserves and crosses Polesskiy preserve only once on the way of general importance. Participant of the action indicated that environmental activists are planning to go together with the participants of the race, to make sure that the jeeps will actually go around protected areas. Photo by Vladimir Gontar / UNIAN