We are the Ukrainian team of the Frankfurt Zoological Society, an international conservation organisation that has supported conservation projects in Africa, South America, Southeast Asia and Europe for many decades. In 2001, our work in Ukraine began with a regional landscape park in Polissia, which had no team of its own and existed only on paper. Twenty-five years have passed, and today we are working to strengthen 21 protected areas, focusing on the unique ecosystems of Polissia and the Carpathians. Our goal is to preserve Ukraine’s wild nature by developing, transforming and improving the work of national parks and nature reserves.
Today, this is the largest programme of FZS in Europe, supporting protected areas across 11 areas of work — from operations to biodiversity monitoring.
Where do we operate
Where do we operate
What do we do
By combining international experience with local knowledge and expertise, we support the preservation of the large areas of pristine and near-pristine nature in Ukraine. We mainly do this by supporting projects in major protected areas such as national parks, biosphere reserves, and large nature reserves.
The Frankfurt Zoological Society systematically supports protected areas in their efforts to develop digital communication and share information about national parks and nature reserves. That’s why we created a series of photo books which, of course, cannot fully convey the depth and diversity of everything one can see and experience in the Carpathians, but they do allow you to get at least a little closer to them.
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…Gorgany
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…Uzhansky
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…Sineogora
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…Vyzhnytskyi
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…Synevyr
Over the years of the Frankfurt Zoological Society’s presence in Ukraine, we have already developed materials that can help improve the visual identity of nature conservation areas’ websites or their communication in digital channels.
After the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Carpathian protected areas faced new challenges. They have become a shelter for thousands of people fleeing conflict in the east of the country. At the same time they had to continue daily nature conservation activities in the face of significant funding cuts. FZS from the first days of full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine have been supporting the protected areas in this new reality.
