Environment & Ecosystem Science (EES)

Ukraine is on the path to integration into the European Union. The state and national community face many challenges. It is necessary to understand, develop, adapt and implement the European bases of sustainable development at the economic, social and environmental levels at the national level. The ambitious sustainable development goals that the EU wants to achieve are now focused on rural areas and everything that surrounds them, including the health and welfare of domestic and livestock animals and not just agricultural production. Animal welfare legislation is aligned with the most recent scientific evidence outlined in documents such as the European Green Deal, the From Farm to Fork strategy, Biodiversity Conservation Strategy. Since the beginning of the full-scale Russian aggression, due to military actions taking place mostly in the Steppe Zone of Ukraine, where four out of five biosphere reserves are located, this has negatively affected the balance in local ecosystems due to the reduction in the number of large and small ruminants raised on pastures and the disappearance of wild fauna, the existence of which depends on the presence of farm animals.