EU-funded FLEG II Program has completed in February 2017. Learn more about the Program and its results, read the final reports, or contact us.

ADA-funded FLEG II Program has completed in December 2017. Learn more about the Program and its results, read the final reports, or contact us.

 

Ukraine

20/01/2017
Ukrainian Timber Export Ban: to be or not to be?

The proposal of the European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker at the Ukraine – EU summit in Brussels in November 2016 sparked a massive discussion in the Ukrainian society. He suggested that Ukraine lifts the 10-year ban on the export of unprocessed timber in exchange for getting EU tranche of 600 million euros. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko promised to lift the ban.



27/10/2016
Improving Communal Forest Management in Ukraine

FLEG II facilitates the dialogue between communal forestry enterprises and local authorities



26/10/2016
How Can Ukraine’s Forest Sector Overcome Crisis?

On September 28, National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine hosted a roundtable dedicated to the current situation in the forest sector of the country.



05/10/2016
FLEG Helps Assess Forest Management in Ukraine

To improve the institutional structure of the forest sector and forest management, FLEG II conducted an expert study titled “Overall assessment of the forest management in Ukraine”





28/06/2016
Our Voice Matters

Through dialogue and transparency IUCN, WWF and FSC improved the Ukrainian forestry sector reform



23/06/2016
FLEG encourages media attention to forestry problems

Annual contest “Every Year is Forest Year 2016” has helped make forestry sector more transparent, and improved public understanding of forestry problems and solutions.



14/06/2016
FLEG helps improve legal responsibility for forest-related violations in Ukraine

FLEG II Program held a round table in Kyiv, devoted to the improvement of the legal liability for infringement of the forest legislation.



04/04/2016
FLEG in Ukraine Launches Annual Journalism Contest: “Every Year is Forest Year. 2016”

A whole waterfall was destroyed in Chernivtsi Oblast of Ukraine to convert it into a road for transporting timber. This and many other urgent issues were raised in articles submitted for FLEG II forest journalism contest in Ukraine.



08/02/2016
New united forestry entity of Ukraine: what should it be?

Kiev, Ukraine – On January 18, FLEG II experts discussed the reform of the forest sector with the top management of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food and State Forestry Agency.




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