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.
We desperately want to see a genuine reaction from the professional land surveying community.
Significant progress has been made in establishing new protected areas in Ukraine.
These newly established territories will now serve as secure environments for the long-term conservation of these rare plant species.
The research covered territories within the Obukhovychi Forestry, former collective farm forest tracts, and the floodplains of the Liubsha, Bolotna, Zbynka, and Bychok rivers.
This area is home to numerous populations of rare plant and animal species listed in the Red Data Book of Ukraine.
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…