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.
The six nature reserves we propose for establishment are well-known to scientists and already hold European conservation status.
Speaker to explain how nature conservation is organized in the European Union and why biodiversity data is so crucial for these countries.
What was excluded from the reserve? The old-growth beech forests on the Borzhava slopes facing the village of Volovets.
From February 26–28, 2025 experts and stakeholders discussed the restoration and maintenance of steppe biotopes.
The year 2024 proved to be challenging, yet highly productive across multiple fronts.