“Askania-Nova”: How the Experience of Occupation Changed the Fate of the Reserve
In 2022, when the Askania-Nova Biosphere Reserve came under occupation, many believed that supporting it no longer made sense.
Project STRATEGIC INVENTORY AND GAP ANALYSIS OF BIODIVERSITY ACTIONS IN UKRAINE
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Funded by the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Climate Action, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety and the International Climate Initiative (IKI), the project undertakes a comprehensive stocktake of biodiversity conservation and ecosystem restoration efforts in Ukraine. It maps current challenges, past and ongoing measures to identify gaps in biodiversity action. Using a…
IUCN World Conservation Congress 2025: Outcomes for Ukraine
This is a key global event, where major challenges in species and ecosystem conservation were discussed.
How Ukraine Is Losing Its Forests
Currently, the foresters are lobbying for legislative changes that would legalize new, almost unlimited, experimental logging.
It is time for Velykyi Luh to revive
Velykyi Luh (means Great Meadow) is one of the most important natural and historical landscapes of Ukraine. This area was flooded in 1955-1958 with construction of Kakhovske Reservoir, despite the fact that many monuments of Zaporizhzhian Sich were preserved here and a large number of rare animal and plant species were found here. For 70…
The Parliament of Ukraine called to strengthen sanctions on Russian and Belarussian timber and seafood!
Kyiv, May 8, 2023 Since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the EU, the US, Japan and other countries have imposed sanctions on wood and seafood from Russia and Belarus. However, such sanctions are often incomplete. In addition, Russian and Belarusian companies have learned to circumvent them, passing off their products…
The evacuation of the unique herbarium, which was collected by scientists of the Kherson State University for more than 50 years, took place!
The second operation to save the herbarium in 100 years was successful (the first, by the way, took place at Kharkiv University during the Second World War). This would not have happened without our colleagues from UNCG, professors of Kherson State University Ivan Moisienko and Oleksandr Khodosovtsev. “When we were still in occupied Kherson, in…
Saving scientific data during war: how is it possible and why it matters?
By Oleksii Marushchak Oleksii Marushchak is Chief Data Manager at Ukrainian Nature Conservation Group (UNCG). UWEC Work Group invited him to describe data management and security in wartime conditions. UNCG is actively involved not only in scientific research of Ukrainian biodiversity, creating and supporting Nature Reserve Fund sites, and environmental education on different levels, but…
News from Ukrainian forests Issue #3, 28.11.2022
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…
Defending themselves against the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the russians destroy nature reserves
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…