Ukraine’s prospects of the European Green Deal objectives implementation in forest management

Currently forest management in Ukraine is characterized by a number of systemic problems making it extremely inefficient and leading to the degradation of our forests. In fact, the State Forest Resources Agency of Ukraine concentrates excessive and contradictory powers, which contribute exclusively to the economic direction of both regulatory and supervisory activities, without due regard for the environmental and social functions of forests. Contradictory and imperfect felling rules lead to the gradual destruction of environmentally valuable forests due to felling and turning them into poor monocultures. At the same time, unaccounted forests are being destroyed rapidly, and forestry enterprises are planning to afforest valuable steppe areas, in particular, with invasive species.