In October 2026, the Ukrainian Nature Conservation Group (UNCG) took part in the 17th Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (COP17) in Yerevan.
The first issue of the Ukrainian Journal of Nature Conservation was published — a new scientific journal dedicated to nature conservation in Ukraine
The Ukrainian Nature Conservation Group has published more than one million records of plants, animals, and other organisms on GBIF.
A new local landscape reserve, “Khovrashyvia,” has been established in Vinnytsia Oblast to protect an important habitat of the European ground squirrel (Spermophilus citellus), a rare and endangered mammal species.
On 11 August 2026, the President of Ukraine signed a decree establishing Chornyi Lis National Nature Park in Kirovohrad Oblast.
we appealed to the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine and the National Commission of Ukraine for UNESCO to initiate the process of including the Velykyi Luh of the Lower Dnipro on the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List as a mixed cultural and natural property.
Pachosky’s cornflower is a truly remarkable botanical treasure. It is an endemic species found only on the sandy terraces of the lower Inhulets River. Its entire natural range is confined to a single municipality—the Kalynivka community in Kherson Region.
On 23 June 2026, the Head of the Kherson Regional Military Administration, Oleksandr Prokudin, signed Decrees No. 239 and 240 establishing five new protected areas.
In 2022, when the Askania-Nova Biosphere Reserve came under occupation, many believed that supporting it no longer made sense.
The protected zone has been established within the Orzhytsia Rural Community.