During the days of the military invasion of the Kyiv region, Russian troops deliberately set fire to forests within the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. The news was full of heavy fighting in the area of Gostomel, Irpen and Bucha, and the fire was mentioned only because the winds from it blew on Kyiv. The mentioned territory…
Petro Testov, our colleague, environmentalist, traveler: ⏪Before the war, I adapted Ukrainian ecological legislation to European. Just before the war, I was working on several resolutions that were to be adopted. And they would introduce new approaches to forest conservation, new logging rules that have made Ukraine’s forestry more environmentally friendly. But… I’m a volunteer…
Wars not only bring misery to people. The war completely destroys cultural values, historical evidences and, of course, scientific knowledge. Dozens of scientists from southern and eastern Ukraine have become refugees. Many of them have lost the scientific heritage of their lives forever. The achievements of many specialists who worked for decades in reserves and…
Attn: President of Ukraine Volodymyr ZELENSKYI Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys SHMYHAL Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Ruslan STEFANCHUK 7 URGENT STEPS FOR PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT IN TIMES OF WAR AND SUCCESSFUL EUROINTEGRATION We are representatives of the Ukrainian environmental community. Since the war started, we have been working to…
We believe in the quick victory of the Armed Forces of Ukraine over the russian invaders and in the full restoration of Ukraine’s sovereignty. We help the defenders of Ukraine every day and look forward to important news from the front for all Ukrainians. That is why we have already begun to think about the…
February 26 near the village Kozarovichy russian troops destroyed the dam that separated the Irpin River from the Kyiv Reservoir. In a month and a half, water from the reservoir flooded the Irpen floodplain up to Gorenka, which is more than 20 kilometers upstream. Now the water reservoir of the Dnieper tributary in its widest…
russian aggression continues through the financing from the export of goods and products.
The hostilities of 2022 led to the formation of a radically different picture during the spawning season.
Ukrainian Nature Conservation Group has launched a fundraising campaign to support national parks and reserves.
The footage appears online, showing Russian troops digging around the “redwood forest,” a burial site for trees that had absorbed maximum doses of radiation exposure from the Chernobyl accident.