Management of the nature conservation areas of Ukraine’s Polissya region based on the international experience

Alina Yakymchuk,Taras Mykytyn,Andriy Valyukh

doi:10.21511/ppm.15(1-1).2017.05

Abstract

In ensuring sustainable development an important role belongs to natural preservation areas with different functions and modes of preservation, where an important place is occupied by natural conservation territories and natural conservation objects that form the natural reserve fund. A system of management of natural reserve fund of Ukraine is associated with many problems and shortcomings. The authors have studied the experience of efficient management of similar institutions in other countries, such as the national natural and regional landscape parks. They have outlined prospects for the development of natural reserves in Ukraine in accordance with international standards and requirements. They have also outlined innovative tools for the protection of biodiversity. They have offered a range of measures to improve the efficiency of the system of management of natural reserves based on the best international practices (establishing standard expenses of the state budgetary financing, insurance, the use of geoinformation technologies, grant projects and programs, adaptive management, restructuring of management, improvement of the organizational structure, effective system of paid services, etc.).

Highlights

Statement of the problem in general and its connection with important scientific and practical tasks
Ecological balance of the environment, reduction of pollution, preservation of biological and landscape diversity an important role belongs to natural reserves with different functions and types of protection, the most important of which are natural reserve areas and conservation objects, which together form the Nature Reserve Fund (NRF)
It should be noted that conservation of natural reserves and restrictions of certain types of economic activity should not be a mechanical “removal from economic circulation” of natural resources, but a transition to a more sustainable socially significant forms of environmental management accompanied by ecologically prudent commercial activities regarding the use of products of the nature reserve fund

Summary

Management of nature reserves and national parks

Management of nature reserves and national parks is carried out by special administrations under the leadership of a director. On the territory of the Polissya nature conservation area this group includes: the Rivne, Poleski and Cheremskyi nature reserves; the Shatsky and Desna-Starogutskiy natural parks; 10 regional and landscape parks (which have a potential for active management, because most of the management issues are still under development), the category of the park type that are recognized as legal entities, including the Kyiv, Rivne and Mensk zoos, 6 botanical gardens, 5 dendrological parks and 25 parks with monuments of landscape architecture) This group includes only 55 nature reserves (or 2.9 per cent of the total number). An important issue today is the introduction of a model of integrated management For this goal it is necessary to subordinate all natural conservation areas of national importance to the Ministry of Environmental Protection of Ukraine and provide them with adequate funding. GIS can reduce the time for the processing of information in making managerial decisions and help establish links between different parameters

Conclusions

Findings

26. Economic Values of Protected Areas