Contacts: Yehor Hrynyk, “Ukrainian Nature Conservation Group”, [email protected] War as a justification for more logging! ___ The EU and other countries should strengthen sanctions against Russian and Belarusian wood! An investigation by the British NGO Earthsight, published on November 25, shows that the largest furniture retailers in the EU continue to buy furniture produced in…
The recently published investigation by the British NGO Earthsight reveals shocking facts – the largest EU furniture retailers continue to buy furniture produced in Belarus. And it’s not just any furniture. According to the investigation, penal colonies are among the largest furniture producers in Belarus. Earthsight has managed to collect a lot of evidence that…
Together with all Ukrainians, we congratulate the incredible successes of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kherson region! The fact that the protected territories of the right-bank part of the Kherson region and the south-eastern part of the Mykolaiv region have been freed from the occupiers is also incredibly pleasing! What valuable protected areas…
The news about the liberation of the national park is extremely joyful, but the fact that during the 8 months of occupation the infrastructure of the park suffered a lot is saddening. The russians stole almost all the property of the national park: cars, boats, quadcopters, a thermal imager, and a weather station. And in…
Russian troops have begun construction of a powerful fortified area along the left bank of the Kherson region in Ukraine. An approximate scheme of the “defense lines” (Map of the russian defense lines being built on the right bank of the Dnieper 11/05/2022) posted the @COUPSURE channel on Twitter. Analysis of satellite images confirms this…
One of the hamsters hanging on the photo is a red book gray hamster. Until 2021, our colleague Mykhailo Rusin was engaged in preserving the gray hamster in the Kherson region and Zaporizhzhia… Recently, he received a photo from a position left by the russians somewhere in the Kherson region.
The south of the Kherson region is the place of the largest concentration of nature conservation areas in Ukraine. It is here that the most important areas for wetland birds in the entire northern Black Sea region are located. They are protected at the international level by the Ramsar Convention and are the part of…
Breaking up with Russia, we should finally break up with our common Soviet past, where myth-making was almost the basis of state policy. In this article, we would like to debunk one of the myths of Soviet propaganda without naming it. Instead, let us analyze what were the consequences of the implementation of Stalin’s plan…
On October 19, the President signed a decree according to which the decision of the National Security and Defense Council “On the application and amendment of personal special economic and other restrictive measures (sanctions)” comes into force. Our appeals to various authorities gave their result and Vladimir Krupchak – a Russian oligarch who has (had:))…
Roman Lysenko, Yehor Hrynyk Taking advantage of the war, Ukrainian authorities are increase the volume of logs. According to the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources of Ukraine and the State Forest Resources Agency of Ukraine, they plan to cut one and a half times more than usual. What do they plan to…