Eco-Ethics International Union: EEIU Antartica Reports & Letter

We are grateful for your offer to accept active participation in the activity of the Eco-Ethics International Union. Concerning your offers, we wish to inform you of the following:

Unfortunately, due to the unstable economic situation in the Ukraine, we can not offer financial support to the organization.

We are ready to accept active participation in the development and perfection of the conceptual and terminological base of eco-ethics. We can promote these concepts in the fields of general biology, ecology and nature protection technologies. However, for effective work, we require direct contact to the experts in this area. We also need a list of the certificated and problematic (i.e. requiring development and specification) terms and concepts of the specified sphere.

Concerning the education of schoolboys, students and propagation of eco-ethics. In the Kiev Municipal Palace of Youth the schoolboys study the influence of stressful factors (heavy metals) on Antarctic soil microbial associations. In the Kiev Polytechnic Institute on Faculty of Technology and Technologies of Plant Polymers a video 'Biological methods of water purification' is shown, which focuses on the use of nature protection technology, i.e. the regulation of microbial metabolism on the ecologically safe treatment of solid food wastes at the Ukrainian Antarctic station 'Academician Vernadsky'. The same film is shown in special subjects for students of the National University of Food Technologies of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Ukraine.

In the Institute of Microbiology and Virology of the National Academy of Sciences of the Ukraine biotechnologies for the treatment of organic wastes are developing. These technologies can be implemented at the Antarctic stations of other countries. In the Institute of Microbiology and Virology the microorganisms of gen. Pseudomonas — active producents of antibiotics — are isolated and studied. These microorganisms are isolated from soils on Galindes Island near the station Academician Vernadsky. The results of these investigations are published in a scientific journal 'Microbiologichny zhurnal'. This, from our point of view, constitutes popularization among scientists of the information on the nature of the Antarctic.

In support of the Ukrainian Antarctic Center two ecological films about the Antarctic Region have been created. One of them is a film about the mentioned technology of regulation of microbial metabolism, and the second is about typical landscapes, natural bodies, and the biogeocenoses of the research polygon on Galindes Island. These films are used for the popularization of eco-ethics concerning the Antarctic region among scientists and wide layers of people in Kiev.

We once again want to confirm our desire to actively participate in the work of the Eco-Ethics International Union.

Best regards,
Director of the Ukrainian Antarctic Center

Valery Lytvynov

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Response, 12 January 2005

Dear Director Lytvynov,

Thank you for your letter of the 24th. It is always a pleasure to hear from colleagues pursuing similar aims.

Your efforts on educating the younger generation are to be commended. The key to a true paradigm shift to eco-ethics does indeed lie with these representatives of our future.

Concerning your questions on terms and concepts, I have forwarded a copy of your letter to Union Vice President Prof. Dr. Gennady Polikarpov for his assistance.

I look forward to working with you, and wish you all the best in your continued endeavors with the Center and the Station on Galindes Island.

Best regards,

Mary Batson

Update, 18 October 2004 (from Chair Dr. Sergei Gulin)

EEIU Antarctica: Ongoing Activities

During the last months, winterers at the Antarctic Station disseminated Union booklets among visitors. Chair Sergei Gulin will be visiting the Station soon, where he intends to give eco-ethic lectures and presentations of the EEIU and to raise the Union's flag (pictures will be provided at that time).

Letter, January 13, 2003

From: Dr. Sergei Gulin, Chair, EEIU Antarctica, Galindez Island, Antarctica
To: Prof. Otto Kinne, EEIU President, Headquarters, Germany

Dear Professor Kinne,

I am very grateful to you for the high honour of appointing me Chair of the Antarctic Chapter of the Eco-Ethics International Union! I am really happy to be a member of this global Union, playing such an important role in providing a better future for our small planet. And I will make every effort to hoist the Union's flag higher and higher over the Ice Continent. Thank you very much!

Dear Mary,

I very much appreciate your very kind cooperation and help with the establishing of the Antarctic Chapter! Cheers!!!

Cordially,
Sergei Gulin

Letter, January 13, 2003

From: Prof. Otto Kinne, EEIU President, Headquarters, Germany
To: Dr. Sergei Gulin, Chair, EEIU Antarctica, Galindez Island, Antarctica

Dear Dr. Gulin,

Welcome to the Union! We are very pleased to have a Chapter now also on the southern-most continent. I am looking forward to cooperating with you and your staff.

Warm regards from Headquarters!

Otto Kinne

Letter, January 7, 2003

From: Prof. Gennady Polikarpov, EEIU Vice President, General Office, Ukraine
To: Prof. Otto Kinne, EEIU President, and Mary Batson, EEIU Coordinator, Headquarters, Germany

Dear Prof. Kinne, EEIU President,
and Ms. Batson, EEIU Coordinator,

The EEIU Antarctic Chapter is ready to work officially under the aegis of EEIU! With the kind assistance of Helga Witt, EEIU Brochures in different languages have been sent to the Ukrainian Antarctic Centre (Kiev), and part of them already have been delivered to the Antarctic Continent - to the 'Ukrainian Antarctic Station "Akademik Vernadsky"'. My colleague Dr. Sergei Gulin, newly appointed Chair of the EEIU Antarctic Chapter, expects to visit the Antarctic Station again in the near future for the purpose (together with his research program in marine radiochemoecology) of coordinating the EEIU Antarctic activity in that region, including development of the respective contacts on this subject with his colleagues at the nearest British, USA, Italian, Polish and other Antarctic stations.

Warm regards,

Gennady Polikarpov

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