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Chornohora Wilderness Candidate

Chornohora Wilderness Candidate

Chornohora Wilderness Candidate

September 282021

Chornohora Wilderness

The 1 130 ha Chornohora Wilderness Candidate is embedded into the Carpathian Biosphere Reserve. The Reserve is in the Ukrainian part of Carpathian Mountain. The Carpathian Biosphere Reserve already hosts the certified Uholka – Shyrokyy Luh Wilderness, Kuziy-Trybushany WILDForest and Maramarosh Wilderness. The Reserve further includes additional, large area with Wilderness potential: Svydovec

Chornohora Wilderness represents an outstanding example of undisturbed old-growth mixed forest (beech, fir and spruce), tree line with mugo pine and rare fragments of subalpine and alpine habitats (composition of mugo pine, juniper, alder and rhododendron). Sub-alpine meadows used to be intensively grazed in the past but currently, grazing is very limited and the area has many signs of natural succession.  There are also several wild streams, such as the Ozirnyi, Bilyi, Skopeshchyk and Keveliv Streams.

The area contains a large genetic reservoir on which many species depend and can be associated with this wide spectrum of habitats. Parts of Chornohora Wilderness are part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site – Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe.

European Wilderness Quality Standard Audit System

The 1 130 ha Chornohora Wilderness was subject to a Pre-Audit in spring 2019 and meets the Bronze Wilderness

Quality Standard. After finalising the Quick-Audit, there is a large potential to expand Chornohora Wilderness to the size of approx. 15 000 ha and increase its Wilderness Quality Standard.

Wilderness information

  • Protected area: Carpathian Biosphere Reserve
  • Wilderness: Chornohora Wilderness
  • Wilderness Quality Standard: Bronze
  • Country: Ukraine
  • Size of the protected area: 57 880 ha
  • Size of the Wilderness: 1 130 ha (with a potential for enlargement to 16 992 ha)
  • European Wilderness Quality Standard Pre-Audit: 2019
  • Wilderness Uniqueness: Large area of old-growth beech and mixed forest with wild rivers and rare fragments of subalpine and alpine habitats, favourable habitat for wolf, bear and many other rare species
  • Number of visitors per year to the protected area: approx. 20 000
  • Number of visitors per year to the Wilderness: approx. 2 000

Biodiversity

The Chornohora Wilderness is a large area with old-growth beech and mixed beech-spruce-fir forests. It is an area of great international importance and a local hotspot for biodiversity which depends on spontaneous natural processes and ecosystem dynamics. It contains representatives of flora and fauna typical for old-growth Carpathian beech and mixed forests, tree line and subalpine meadows. Tree line and subalpine meadows were used in the past for intensive grazing. The striking and impressive features of this area are the big trees; broken tree stems covered with a variety of fungi and fragments of wild undamaged tree line. The area has a permanent small population of brown bears, wolves and lynxes. Typical bird dwellers in the area are the black stork and eagle-owl.

Wilderness Tourism Experience

Chornohora Wilderness can be accessed using several marked trails. The most popular trail goes along the northern border following the ridge between Carpathian Biosphere Reserve and Carpathian National Nature Park. This trail is intensively used as it leads to the highest point of the Carpathian Mountains in Ukraine – Hoverla (2 061 m) and gives the possibility to continue to Petros (2 020 m).

Chornohora Wilderness is located approx. 210 km from Uzhhorod and approx. 90 km from Ivano Frankivsk. The starting point for hikers is usually Rachiv town or Kvasy village. The marked trails provide a unique experience in Chornohora Wilderness leading through primeval beech and mixed forest, tree line and pass through traditionally used alpine meadows (poloniny).

Contact details

  • Chornohora Wilderness – Candidate
  • Carpathian Biosphere Reserve
  • Address street: Krasne Pleso Street, 77,
  • Postal code city: 90600, Rakhiv, Ukraine
  • Phone: +380 3132 22193
  • Website: www.cbr.nature.org.ua/main.htm

 

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Bonarivske wetland Wilderness

Bonarivske wetland Wilderness

Bondarivske wetland Wilderness Candidate

February 22021

Bondarivske Wetland Wilderness – Candidate

The 1 300 ha Bondarivske Wetland Wilderness Candidate is embedded into the Mizhrichynskyy Regional Landscape Park, Ukraine.  The park is situated between the Dnieper and Desna rivers.

Bondarivske Wetland Wilderness is a massive wetland of the great hydrological, geomorphological and landscape importance. The unique landscapes also includes taiga-type moss swamps and floodplains. This area hosts a number of rare animal and plant species.

European Wilderness Quality Standard Audit System

The 1 300 ha Bondarivske Wetland Wilderness was the subject to the Wilderness Pre-Audit in June 2019 and meets the Bronze Wilderness Quality Standard. A European Wilderness Quality Standard Full-Audit is scheduled for 2021.

Wilderness information

  • Protected area: Mizhrichynskyy Regional Landscape Park
  • Wilderness: Bondarivske Wetland Wilderness Candidate
  • Wilderness Quality Standard: Bronze
  • Country: Ukraine
  • Size of the protected area: 78 753,95 ha
  • Size of the Wilderness: 1 300 ha (two parcels of 500 ha and 800 ha)
  • European Wilderness Quality Standard Pre-Audit: 2019
  • Wilderness Uniqueness: Large wetland between Dnieper and Desna rivers. The area includes several lakes and fragments of natural forests, favourable habitat for wolf, lynx, elk, beaver, grey crane and black grouse
  • Number of visitors per year to the protected area: 20 000
  • Number of visitors per year to the Wilderness: To be verified

Biodiversity

Bondarivske Wetland Wilderness has a scattered islands of pine forests, glacial sand dunes and impassable marshes located between the Dnieper and Desna rivers. It contains representatives of flora and fauna typical for undisturbed wetlands. It is home to two packs of wolves, lynx, eagles, and populations of approximately 130 , 30 black grouse six pairs of grey cranes and ten beavers.

The area is adjacent to the Chernobyl Radiation and Ecological Biosphere Reserve and provides an important habitat for migrating species. In 1950, people were removed from this area, for military purposes. The Ministry of Defence controls access to the area for military operations. There has been no public fishing or hunting since the 1980’s. Bondarivske Wetland Wilderness is split by a concrete road that is used rarely by local forest and park managers and militaries.

Wilderness Tourism Experience

Mizhrichynskyy Regional Landscape Park is well known and frequently visited tourism destination. Proximity to Kiev makes this one of Ukraine’s most popular Regional Landscape Park. The park offers a wide spectrum of experiences. Access to the Bondarivske Wetland Wilderness is restricted by the Ministry of Defence, but guided tours to the vicinity of Bondarivske Wetland are offered by a local organisation.

Contact details

  • Bondarivske Wetland Wilderness – Candidate
  • Mizhrichynskyy Regional Landscape Park
  • Address: Otrochi village, Kozeletsky district
  • Postal code city: Chernihiv region, Ukraine
  • Phone: + 380 67 327 06 26
  • Website: http://dniprodesna.org.ua
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Darvaika Wilderness

Darvaika Wilderness

Darvaika Wilderness

October 172018

The 1 450 ha Darvaika Wilderness is embedded in Synevyr National Nature Park, Ukraine. The Darvaika Wilderness is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site – Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe. The Wilderness represents an example of undisturbed old-growth mixed forests (beech, maple, fir, spruce and remnants of mugo pine), and provides a safe refuge for populations of all Carpathian carnivores such as brown bear, wolf, wildcat and lynx.

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Maramarosh Wilderness

Maramarosh Wilderness

Maramarosh Wilderness

October 152018

Maramarosh Wilderness represents an outstanding example of undisturbed old-growth mixed forest (beech, fir and spruce) and rare fragments of subalpine and alpine habitats (tree line with mugo pine, alder and rhododendron), which are characteristic for the natural state of the Carpathian mountain landscapes. It is an area of great international importance and a local hotspot for biodiversity, which is dependent on spontaneous natural processes and ecosystem dynamics.

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Chornyy Dil Wilderness

Chornyy Dil Wilderness

Chornyy Dil Wilderness

September 172018

Chornyy Dil Wilderness is embedded in the Synevyr National Nature Park, Ukraine. Chornyy Dil Wilderness preserves large areas of unique old-growth broadleaf and conifer forest and a natural state of the Carpathian mountain landscapes. The Synevyr National Nature Park has good potential to expand Chornyy Dil Wilderness, which is an area with no roads and is without any management intervention.

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Uholka-Shyrokyy Luh Wilderness

Uholka-Shyrokyy Luh Wilderness

Uholka-Shyrokyy Luh Wilderness

December 172017

The Uholka-Shyrokyy Luh Wilderness is part of the Carpathian Biosphere Reserve. The area preserves the largest area of unique old-growth beech forest of Europe and the natural state of the Carpathian mountain landscapes. Uholka-Shyrokyy Luh Wilderness represents an outstanding example of undisturbed temperate beech forests and provides a sample of the pure stands of European beech.

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Velyka Uholka WILDRiver

Velyka Uholka WILDRiver

Velyka Uholka WILDRiver

December 172017

The Velyka Uholka WILDRiver is embedded in the Uholka-Shyrokyy Luh Wilderness, Ukraine. The Velyka Uholka WILDRiver, together with the small tributary Yavoronskyy Stream, is a typical mountain river with the extraordinary scenery and is surrounded by undisturbed temperate beech forests. 

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Velyka Uholka WILDRiver

Mala Uholka WILDRiver

Mala Uholka WILDRiver

December 172017

The Mala Uholka WILDRiver spans over a length of 7 kilometres and is embedded in the Uholka-Shyrokyy Luh Wilderness, Ukraine. The Mala Uholka WILDRiver, together with the small tributaries Buchmonskyy Stream and Plosnyy Stream, is a mountain river with the typical extraordinary scenery and is surrounded by undisturbed temperate beech forests.

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Gorgany Wilderness

Gorgany Wilderness

Gorgany Wilderness

December 142017

The Gorgany Wilderness is part of the Gorgany Nature Reserve. This area preserves the natural state of the Carpathian mountain landscapes, typical natural complexes, unique primeval beech forests, and in particular forest with Swiss pine (Pinus cembra).

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Shyrokyy Luh WILDRiver

Shyrokyy Luh WILDRiver

Shyrokyy Luh WILDRiver

December 102017

The Shyrokyy Luh WILDRiver is embedded in the Uholka-Shyrokyy Luh Wilderness, Ukraine. The Shyrokyy Luh WILDRiver, together with the tributary Tarsovskyy Stream, Polonskyy Stream and Bradul Stream, is a mountain river with an extraordinary scenery and is surrounded by undisturbed temperate beech forests.

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Hoverla Wilderness

Hoverla Wilderness

Hoverla Wilderness

December 102017

The Hoverla Wilderness is part of Carpathian National Nature Park. The area preserves the natural state of the Carpathian mountain landscapes and large complexes of unique mixed and conifer forests with presence of the large carnivores (bear, wolf and lynx). Carpathian National Nature Park includes 3 large Wilderness, which qualify to become a member of European Wilderness Network: Hoverla Wilderness, Pip Ivan Wilderness and Siniak Wilderness.

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Zacharovanyy Kray WILDForest

Zacharovanyy Kray WILDForest

Zacharovanyy kray WILDForest

December 102017

The Zacharovanyy kray WILDForest is partially embedded in the Zacharovanyy kray Wilderness and in Zacharovanyy kray National Nature Park, Ukraine. Zacharovanyy kray WILDForest preserves the natural state of the beech forest in the central part of the Ukrainian Carpathian Mountains. Zacharovanyy kray WILDForest is committed to protect self-regulated natural processes, and has been for several years.

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Zacharovanyy Kray Wilderness

Zacharovanyy Kray Wilderness

Zacharovanyy kray Wilderness

December 102017

The Zacharovanyy kray Wilderness is embedded in the Zacharovanyy kray National Nature Park, Ukraine. Ukraine contains excellent examples of Wilderness. Zacharovanyy kray Wilderness preserves the natural state of the beech forest in the central part of the Ukrainian Carpathian Mountains and is committed to protect self-regulated natural processes for several years.

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Kuziy-Trybushany WILDForest

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Kuziy-Trybushany WILDForest

November 162017

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  • Chornohora Wilderness Candidate

    Chornohora Wilderness Candidate

    Candidate, Wilderness

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  • Bonarivske wetland Wilderness

    Bonarivske wetland Wilderness

    Candidate, Wilderness

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  • Darvaika Wilderness

    Darvaika Wilderness

    Wilderness

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  • Maramarosh Wilderness

    Maramarosh Wilderness

    Wilderness

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  • Chornyy Dil Wilderness

    Chornyy Dil Wilderness

    Wilderness

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  • Uholka-Shyrokyy Luh Wilderness

    Uholka-Shyrokyy Luh Wilderness

    Wilderness

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  • Velyka Uholka WILDRiver

    Velyka Uholka WILDRiver

    WILDRiver

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  • Mala Uholka WILDRiver

    Mala Uholka WILDRiver

    WILDRiver

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  • Gorgany Wilderness

    Gorgany Wilderness

    Wilderness

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  • Shyrokyy Luh WILDRiver

    Shyrokyy Luh WILDRiver

    WILDRiver

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  • Hoverla Wilderness

    Hoverla Wilderness

    Wilderness

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  • Zacharovanyy Kray WILDForest

    Zacharovanyy Kray WILDForest

    WILDForest

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  • Zacharovanyy Kray Wilderness

    Zacharovanyy Kray Wilderness

    Wilderness

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  • Uholka-Shyrokyy Luh WILDForest

    Uholka-Shyrokyy Luh WILDForest

    WILDForest

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  • Kuziy-Trybushany WILDForest

    Kuziy-Trybushany WILDForest

    WILDForest

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