For the last eight years, Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula and its unique biological diversity have been under occupation. Over that time, its landscape has been actively used for military training. Since February 2022, it has served as a springboard for the military invasion. All of these factors have had a negative impact on the environment. UWEC…
The Emerald Network is an apt name for a network of Areas of Special Conservation Interest (ASCI) in Europe. These areas were brought together and endowed with a single conservation status for the whole of Europe. In order to be granted this status, an area must provide an adequate level of protection for habitats and…
On November 5, after the latest updates in the Global biodiversity database, the number of records of animal, plant, and mushroom encounters on the territory of Ukraine exceeded 2,000,000. Free access to biodiversity data is important not only for the development of science, but also for the development of nature conservation. Open data is useful…
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…
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.