"It is no mere chance that this action is taking place in the Donetsk botanical garden as the establishment is the leading organization which is engaged in the solution of environmental problems of Donbass. Today scientific and legal bases of environmental policy of the Donetsk People's Republic are being discussed here", - Svetlana Prikhodko opened the round table meeting.

"Representatives of legislative and executive power of the Donetsk People's Republic, scientific and pedagogical employees, representatives of nature protection and public organizations, foreign experts, as today the environmental problem is relevant more than ever, are taking part in work of the round table. Human intervention in the nature leads to irreversible consequences, it is significant to act together and in due time to find solutions of the arising environmental problems. In the Donetsk People's Republic environmental protection is given great value, and it is very important to keep at the same time system approach and interaction of all participants, continuing to involve actively science in this process", - Mikhail Kushakov stated, wishing to the audience productive work.

The Chairman of the State committee on environmental policy and natural resources at the Head of the DPR Roman Kishkan presented the report "State environmental policy: the theory and practice". He presented strategic objectives and target programs of environmental policy, designated the priority directions such as: non-hazardous work of environmental pollution sources, processing of industrial and municipal wastes, protection of the wild nature.

Scientific bases of biological diversity territorial protection of the Donetsk People's Republic were presented by the head of department of natural flora and reserve management and studies of the Donetsk botanical garden, professor Vladimir Ostapko. The speaker emphasized that today work on creation of the Green book of Donbass is being carried out, materials for the Red List (on flora) of the Donetsk People's Republic are being prepared,

The report of the Chairman of the Committee of National Council for agriculture and land resources Oleg Glebov was devoted to problems of restoration of broken ecosystems productivity, the report tells about the concept of ecological network and development of system of specially protected natural sites in the Donetsk People's Republic.

Further, need of soil fertility monitoring organization in the Donetsk People's Republic was emphasized by the head of the laboratory of soil and ecological researches at the Donetsk botanical garden Dmitry Syshchikov.

The vice-chairman of the State committee on environmental policy and natural resources under the Head of the DPR Alexey Bondarenko told about issues of management and development of specially protected natural sites of the Donetsk People's Republic.