EPL has been awarded core support from Sigrid Rausing Trust for the period from 1 October 2026 till 30 September 2027. The project aims to implement the following goals: 1) To improve Ukrainian environmental policy and legislation promoting establishment of a new and effective environmental governance system in Ukraine. 2) To ensure justice for war-driven…

This compendium is based on up-to-date colelction of judgements of the Court of Justice of the EU in cases related to the operation of Natura 2000 network in European Union and compliance with the Birds and Habitats Directives by states-members of the EU. This publication covers the practical issues of creation, operation of Natura 2000…

This policy paper is devoted to the analysis of the regulatory, institutional and financial framework for biodiversity conservation in Ukraine in the context of harmonization of Ukrainian and European Union environmental legislation. The focus is on transposition and implementation of the requirements of the EU Birds and Habitats Directives, and on the prospect of converting…

LIFE Україна Conservation of Natural Heritage for Life in Ukraine, acronym ConNaturLIFE Ukraine (101148569 — LIFE23-PRE-CZ-ConNaturLIFE Ukraine – LIFE-2023-PLP)     Co-funded by the European Union   The Ministry of Environment Project number: 101148569 Project acronym: LIFE23-PRE-CZ-ConNaturLIFE Ukraine Call: LIFE-2023-PLP Topic: LIFE-2023-PLP-Bauhaus-Phoenix-Emerald Type of action: LIFE Project Grants Granting authority: European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive…

Consequences of blowing up the Kakhovskaya HPP for the ecosystems of southern Ukraine Walking along the bottom of the former reservoir, we saw thousands of shells from dead molluscs. They were scattered everywhere, among them lay the dried skeletons of crayfish, and sometimes there were remains of fish. Frogs croaked in the remaining lakes, surely,…

On 20 June 2022, the Verkhovna Rada adopted in the second reading the draft law on amendments to some legislative acts on forest conservation (registration № 5650) that was developed by members of the public in order to correct the environmental imbalance caused by the adoption of the draft law №2194 and to preserve self-seeding…

 EDI is a unique index measuring the extent of rights to participate in environmental decision making, which has no analogue. EDI measures the degree to which countries have enacted legally binding rules and adopted practices that provide for environmental information collection and disclosure; public participation across a range of environmental decisions; and fair, affordable,…

About 13 % of the Ukrainian forests are constantly being used by public enterprises. Compared to state forests, the efficiency of forest use and protection of large municipal forests is lower, which is caused by a chain of legal, administrative, and economic problems. Most municipal enterprises manage forests inefficiently, numerously violating the law. As a…

In recent months, state leaders have repeatedly demanded to punish the perpetrators guilty of illegal forest logging and “save Ukrainian forests.” In particular, the Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Hroisman ordered to conduct full inspections of all forestry companies to focus on their compliance with the law. According to EPL, no inspections can correct the…

FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) is a non-governmental non-commercial member organization, founded in 1993 by a group of nature conservation organizations, forestry enterprises, traders and forestry trade unions. The primary goal was to protect tropical forests from intensive logging. Nowadays FSC Forest Management Standard is widely spread among the world. Obtaining FSC Certificate enables enterprises to…

As it became known to EPL from the web-site of the Volyn Oblast State Forest and Hunting Administration, on March 15, 2018, the list of measures to improve the sanitary state of forests in Vorotniv Forestry and the State Enterprise “Kivertsi Forestry” was approved. The list of forest felling in “Vorotniv” reserve The area where…

About results of functioning of the Department of Environmental Protection of Kyiv Regional State Administration and State Environmental Academy in 2017 In January last year EPL released the article “How officials make profit on creation of protected areas» that wrote about the scheme used by the Department of Environmental Protection at Kyiv Regional State Administration,…