News - Ukrainian Nature Conservation Group

The visit marked an important step in the exchange of experience between the two countries in the field of nature conservation.

Some regions did not create new protected areas due to russia full-scale war against Ukraine

Thanks to our appeals, we have managed to stop the illegal plowing of coastal zones and the unauthorized land occupation by farmers in four cases.

Currently, the foresters are lobbying for legislative changes that would legalize new, almost unlimited, experimental logging.

The first working meeting of the year on the establishment of the “Chornolissko-Bokovenkivskyi” National Nature Park was held.

The last time the parliamentary environmental committee adopted a similar decision was in 2008.

Among the saved areas were the floodplain of the Stubla River near the Bilivske and Novozhukivske ancient settlements.

russian timber imports to the United States are ongoing.

The total area of the proposed protected areas in these petitions amounts to over 5,000 hectares.

Based on our analysis, 13 land plots totaling about 26 hectares have been illegally privatized within the “Hrenivskyi” reserve.