Our First Million on GBIF: How Ukrainian Biodiversity Data Support Science and Conservation
The Ukrainian Nature Conservation Group has published more than one million records of plants, animals, and other organisms on GBIF.
A New Protected Area Established in Vinnytsia Oblast to Conserve the European Ground Squirrel
A new local landscape reserve, “Khovrashyvia,” has been established in Vinnytsia Oblast to protect an important habitat of the European ground squirrel (Spermophilus citellus), a rare and endangered mammal species.
A Cornflower Found in Only One Community in Ukraine: Scientists Check Whether It Survived the War
Pachosky’s cornflower is a truly remarkable botanical treasure. It is an endemic species found only on the sandy terraces of the lower Inhulets River. Its entire natural range is confined to a single municipality—the Kalynivka community in Kherson Region.
New Landscape Reserve Established in Vinnytsia Region to Protect European Ground Squirrel
This success is the result of a formal appeal and scientific justification prepared by the UNCG.
Ignoring the Evidence: State Foresters Blame Ecological Limits for Failures Cited by EU and Prosecutors
We want to believe that Oleksiy Sobolev, the new Minister of Economy, Environment, and Agricultural Policy, will not wish to go down in history as the one who destroyed Ukraine forests.
Ukrainian Scientists to Discuss Open Biodiversity Data at Kyiv Seminar
The seminar will focus on the establishment, use, and standardization of biodiversity databases in Ukraine.
Ministry of Economy: Deregulation at the Expense of Nature?
It appears the Ministry have forgotten that they are now officially the Ministry of Economy, Environment, and Agricultural Policy. Their mandate requires them to care also about environmental conservation.
Seminar Outcomes: Integrating Biodiversity into Local Community Planning Documents
The seminar “Strategic Planning Documents for Communities and Nature Protection. Theory and Practice” was successfully held at the Bohdan Khmelnytsky Cherkasy National University.
Ignoring Protected Areas: UNCG Calls for Accountability as Surveyors Greenlight Ecological Damage
We desperately want to see a genuine reaction from the professional land surveying community.
The Case for Protection: Survey Confirms Need to Establish 10 New Reserves in Kyiv Oblast
The research covered territories within the Obukhovychi Forestry, former collective farm forest tracts, and the floodplains of the Liubsha, Bolotna, Zbynka, and Bychok rivers.