The "Pearl" Rehabilitation Center in Anapa is under threat of closure.

The "Pearl" Wild Animal Rehabilitation Center in Vityazevo reported that it is urgently looking for a new land plot and may close due to a lack of funds.

As reported by "Caucasian Knot", in April, more than 650 birds contaminated with oil products were delivered from the beaches of Anapa to the rehabilitation center on Pearl.

The "Pearl" Wild Animal Rehabilitation Center in Vityazevo (Anapa) reported on social media on August 9 that it is urgently looking for a new land plot. Activists suggest that due to a lack of funds for relocation, the center may close.

The family winery "Aratti" provided two hangars for the rehabilitation center free of charge after the oil spill in the Kerch Strait in December 2024. But now the owner needs to put the plot up for sale.

"There is almost no time left. We need to find a new place and manage to move everything we have created during this time. And where to get that much money?" - representatives of the center write.

Millions of volunteer funds have been invested in this private center, despite the fact that it is located on land designated for individual housing construction, writes ecologist Yevgeny Vitishko in his Telegram channel.

"One of the municipal officials responsible for agriculture in Anapa, Mr. Polyakov, suggested using it at the first stage. In fact, he knew that sooner or later both the neighbors and the municipal officials themselves would have to end this real volunteering and entrepreneurship. As they finished, but in fact did not finish cleaning the shore. And there are not many solutions in this direction, and the state has no money at all to save the lives of animals. If all this is moved a little further to the villages of Anapa or the Krymsky or Temryuk districts, then there will be no volunteers left," he pointed out.

Recall that on December 15, 2024, two tankers with fuel oil sank in the Kerch Strait. As a result, a crew member of one of the tankers died. In addition, there was an oil spill, which led to catastrophic environmental consequences, according to the "Caucasian Knot" report "Oil spill in the Kerch Strait".

Materials on the consequences of the oil spill have been collected by the "Caucasian Knot" on the page "Ecological disaster in Kuban".