Ukraine - Country Profile

Status and Trends of Biodiversity

Overview

Ukraine has a rich biodiversity, which consists of more than 25,000 plant species and fungi (including 6,086 vascular plants, more than 15,000 fungi and myxomycetes, more than 1,000 lichens, almost 800 mosses and 4,000 algae) and 45,000 animal species (more than 44,000 of which are invertebrates, including more than 35,000 insects, about 3,500 other arthropods, 1,800 protozoans, 1,600 round worms, 1,280 flatworms and 440 segmented worms)... More »

Number and Extent of Protected Areas

Ukraine has 7,243 protected areas of the Nature Conservation Fund, the whole extent of which is 2,916,158.5 ha (4.8% of the territory of Ukraine). Among those are: Nature reserves – 17; Biosphere Reserves – 4; Nature National Parks – 15; Game Reserves – 2,693, including 303 of national importance and 2,390 of local importance; Regional Landscape Parks – 46; Protected Sites – 793; Monuments of Nature – 3,057, including 132 of national importance and 2,925 of local importance; Botanical Gardens – 25; Zoological Gardens – 12; Dendroparks – 42; Parks-Monuments of garden and artificial parks – 539... More »

Percentage of Forest Cover

Ukraine has a total forest cover of 10, 5 million ha (~ 17 % of the territory).

National Biodiversity Strategy Action Plan

Major features of National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan

Ukraine approved the Concept (Strategy) for Conservation of Biological Diversity in 1997. The main goals identified in this strategy include: (a) conservation, improvement and restoration of natural and disturbed ecosystems, landscape components, and habitats of some species; (b) promoting a transition to sustainable, well-balanced use of natural resources; (c) minimizing any indirect negative influences on ecosystems, their components and ecological complexes; (d) strengthening public awareness, improving availability of information on biodiversity, involving more of local population in conservation activities; (e) defining and strengthening responsibility for biodiversity conservation, especially the responsibilities of institutions, organizations, land users, companies and individuals that use or affect natural resources... More »

Implementation of the Convention

Measures Taken to Achieve the 2010 Target

1) Legal steps: Ukraine has adopted several nature conservation programs and legal documents directed at biodiversity conservation. Since the year 2000 the following programmes were elaborated: Programme on Econet (2000), Programme “Forests of Ukraine” (2002), and Azov-Black Sea State Programme (2001). In addition, some legal acts aimed at the conservation of biodiversity were developed... More »

Initiatives in Protected Areas

Ukraine’s National EcoNetwork Formation Programme for the years 2000-2015 (Law of Ukraine, 2000) was developed in the context of requirements of CBD, Bern Convention and related to the further refinement and development of the Pan-European Biological and Landscape Diversity Strategy in respect of the development of a Pan-European EcoNetwork... More »

Initiatives in Access and Benefit Sharing

A few measures have been identified to regulate access to and benefit-sharing from the use of genetic resources, including creating a National Centre for Genetic Resources and establishing a register of existing genetic resources.

Initiatives for Article 8(j)

Implementation of traditional nature management for conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity components is indirectly encouraged by a number of regulatory and legislative acts. The socio-economic reform in Ukraine creates some conditions for the revival of traditional forms of nature management. A number of measures have been formally identified to support Ukraine’s efforts to preserve and apply traditional knowledge and experience in biodiversity conservation and sustainable use... More »

National Contacts

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Convention on Biological Diversity

Dr. Sergiy I. Gubar	CBD Primary NFP, SBSTTA NFP, ICNP ABS NFP (ONLY)
Mrs. Yuliya Bondarenko	CHM NFP
Dr. Sergiy Mosyakin	GTI NFP
Dr. Igor V. Dovgal	GTI NFP
Mr. Igor Ivanenko	Protected Areas NFP

Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

Dr. Sergiy I. Gubar

Cartagena Protocol Primary NFP, BCH NFP