Environmental groups slate EU plans to weaken nature safeguards in the Western Balkans, Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia

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The European Commission must revise ill-advised plans to undermine nature protection rules for renewable energy projects – including hydropower and biomass – under the Energy Community Treaty (1), 40 civil society organisations today underlined in a joint letter. Following changes to the EU Renewable Energy Directive last year that weakened environmental safeguards for renewables, the…

We have conducted our “Environmental Communication” training courses

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We are sure that professional communication strengthens the activities of conservationists. So, we decided to hold an event where representatives of the nature reserve fund would be able to learn the development of communication strategies, implementation of information campaigns and work with changing the behavior of target audiences. We and our Czech partners delivered several…

New sanctuaries have been established in Odessa region on our application!

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The Odesa Regional Council has announced the establishment of 3 local landscape sanctuaries. Last year we submitted the application for their creation. The total area of the sanctuaries is over 635 hectares. Congratulations to everyone involved in this joyful achievement! There are some words about sanctuaries: Landscape sanctuary “Kolo Gleya” (45 hectares). The protected area…

We call on the US Government to include a ban on timber imports from Russia in the new sanctions package!

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Leading Ukrainian environmental NGOs have appealed to the US Government to include a ban on timber imports from Russia in the new sanctions package announced by President Biden. The text of the letter is below:   Expansion of US sanctions to Russian timber imports Dear Under-Secretary Nelson We, leading Ukrainian environmental NGOs, are writing to…