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Covers representative steppe habitat in eastern Ukraine. The site has been a nature reserve since 1931, providing scientists with a long history of study of steppe ecological processes. It is known for its population of European Marmot. [11] It is a sub-unit of Luhansk Nature Reserve. 11 Medobory: Ternopil Oblast
National nature parks of Ukraine are preservation territories that are part of the Nature-Preservation Fund of Ukraine. The total area protected by national parks is approximately 1,111,600 hectares (11,116 km 2 ), for an average of 22,685 hectares (226.85 km 2 ) but a median of only 14,836 hectares (148.36 km 2 ) at Zalissia .
The Chernobyl Radiation and Ecological Biosphere Reserve, which was created by the President in 2016, [1] is a biosphere preserve (zapovidnyk) but not a UNESCO biosphere reserve. Since 2012 there are eight biosphere reserves in Ukraine from the original three that the country inherited from the Soviet Union ( Ukrainian SSR ).
A synopsis of Ukraine's faunal and flora history was noted in Stephen Rudnicki's Ukraine, the Land and Its People: An Introduction to Its Geography (1912): "Ukraine has a much more varied plant and animal geography than the proper Russian territory, despite the latter's much greater extent. In Ukraine, the borders of three main divisions of ...
Askania-Nova (Ukrainian: Асканія-Нова) is a biosphere reserve located in Kherson Oblast, Ukraine, within the dry Taurida steppe near Oleshky Sands.An active member of the UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Programme, the reserve maintains and conserves native steppe habitat and endemic species while also caring for rare and exotic animal species from around the world.
Main article: Protected areas of Ukraine Categories of Natural Environment Protected Areas of Ukraine were reestablished (redefined) by the Verkhovna Rada (national parliament of Ukraine) after the fall of the Soviet Union. On 16 June 1992 the President of Ukraine Leonid Kravchuk signed the law on the Nature-Preservation Fund of Ukraine. The law redefined already the established system of ...
Of all the different kinds of protected natural areas, the most important are considered to be nature preserves (zapovedniks), national nature parks, and nature reserves . The total area of the protected areas of Ukraine consists of 3,268,000 ha (8,080,000 acres), or around 5.4% of the total area of the country. [ 1 ]
The area of the reserve was 331.8 hectares (1.281 sq mi). At the same time, a forest reserve of the area of 14.9 hectares (0.058 sq mi) was created in the upper valley of the Uzh River. Between 1919 and 1938, the Transcarpathia belonged to Czechoslovakia, and both reserves were considerably