We Submitted a Petition to Establish Protection Zones Around the “Yelanetsky Step” Nature Reserve
Establishing these Protection Zones is the key to defending biodiversity and preventing illegal land encroachment and unsustainable practices.
Establishing these Protection Zones is the key to defending biodiversity and preventing illegal land encroachment and unsustainable practices.
We consider gaining practical experience in habitat restoration to be one of the most important directions of our work, which is exactly what took place in the Lviv region recently.
This new designation ensures that 15.7 hectares of forest of the Dubno Forest Management Unit will now be protected from clear-cutting.
This effort directly aligns with the recommendations issued by the Parliamentary Committee on Environmental Policy and Nature Management.
Last week, the Ukrainian Nature Conservation Group (UNCG) conducted a field expedition to the Zviahel District (formerly Novohrad-Volynskyi) in the Zhytomyr region (Zhytomyrshchyna), located in the historical and natural area of Polissia (a large, forested swampy region). On one hand, we observed stunning natural landscapes. On the other, we concluded that if action isn’t taken…
Ministry officials had been effectively blocking attempts to auction off plots of land containing peat, amber, and sand if those plots fell within Protected Areas.
The only reliable way to protect natural territories is by granting them protected area status.
Court decisions being made under this new law now confirm our fears.
The territory proposed for the reserve is a valuable 85-hectare site of pine-oak open woodland on sandy soils, maintained in a near-natural state.
Buzkyi Hard is a crucial heartland of nature and Cossack history. It is part of the Granite-Steppe Pobuzhia Regional Landscape Park and is a key site within the Emerald Network of Europe.