Seminar: Nature conservation and conflict in Ukraine

Mo, 22.05.2023 – Di, 23.05.2023

In this seminar, the Ukraine Nature team and partners from Ukraine, Poland, and Italy will present the interim results of the project 'Nature Conservation and Conflict in Ukraine: Determining War Damages to Nature Reserves in Ukraine'.

They will share valuable information about the damage to protected areas, biodiversity loss, and how combat operations are affecting ecosystems or will affect them in future. The event will also explore how the war has impacted employees' (including scientists') ability to perform their duties, as well as its impacts on human health.

The following speakers will be in attendance: Prof. Dr. Walter Leal, HAW Hamburg; Dr. João Henrique Paulino Pires Eustachio, HAW Hamburg; Dr. Anastasia Splodytel, National Academy of Sciences Ukraine; Vira Porieva, Recreation and Environmental Education Department Pryazov National Park; Valeria Kolodezhna, Ukrainian Nature Conservation Group; Dr. Oleh Chaskovsky, Ukrainian National Forestry University; Tomasso Orusa, University of Turin; Dr. Aleksandra Pawlaczyk, Lodz University of Technology; Dr. Anatoliy Smaliychuk, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv; Dr.Viktor Shparyk, Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University.

The event will take place over two days. The first day will be held online (see programme below), and the second day will consist of internal workshops, which will be held at HAW Hamburg's Bergedorf campus. For information about how to attend online, please contact maria.fedoruk (at) haw-hamburg (dot) de. A press conference will be held at the campus at 9:00 am on 23 May .

Seminar programme

 

Kontakt

Dr. Maria Fedoruk
Research associate
 
Sustainability and Climate Change Management Research and Transfer Centre
Faculty of Life Sciences
HAW Hamburg

maria.fedoruk (at) haw-hamburg (dot) de

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