On June 6, 2023, at 2:30 am, Russian military forces detonated the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant, which they had mined back in late February 2022. This act of terrorism became the most significant impact on natural ecosystems since the events starting from February 24, 2022, in Ukraine. Some foreign publications have neutrally reported on this…
Today, the attention of all of us is focused on the damage to the Kakhovka dam. It is obvious that these events will lead to consequences for the environment: some areas will be flooded, in some places the bottom of the reservoir will be exposed. However, we will not be able to analyze the situation…
We are constantly working with the Kamianska Sich National Nature Park. Currently, the park is in a very difficult situation, both in terms of damage to natural complexes and the destruction of infrastructure and theft of vehicles and equipment. The frontline has passed through the Kamianska Sich National Nature Park twice – in spring and…
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…
In addition to helping wildlife during the war, UNCG employees are involved into the help to nature conservation institutions that are in the battles’ zone and members of our organization, natural scientists who are currently protecting Ukraine in the ranks of the Ukrainian armed forces. This job is done by the head of our expert…
In the international database of protected areas (WDPA), the Russian Federation entered data on “Russian protected areas” within Ukraine. For example, in this global database, information about the “Charivna Gavan” national natural park (please note that the name of the NPP is actually Ukrainian) looks like this: https://www.protectedplanet.net/555709807 In the same form, all caring people…
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…
Because of the war, the Ministry of Education and Science is able to finance only the educational process. So, in the Botanical Garden at the university there was talk of reducing the number of workers, who were already in short supply. The area of the garden is 27.5 hectares. All these hectares require constant care.…
The Drevlyan nature reserve is located in the Narodytska community on land contaminated by radionuclides after the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Two years ago, it suffered from large-scale forest fires, and this year – from the Russian invasion. -Due to shelling, 2,100 hectares of the reserve were burned. The pine trees planted…
There have already been attempts at encroachment. Take, for example, the Dniester hydroelectric station (Chernivtsky region), which was attacked by a missile on October 31. We escaped with little blood: only the electrical components of the dam were damaged. And although “there is no threat of flooding”, as the media reassured us, we are still…