+6,500 Hectares: “Forests of Ukraine” Registers Property Rights to Self-Sown Forests and New Areas for Afforestation!

The state-owned enterprise “Forests of Ukraine” continues its systematic work on preserving self-sown forests and increasing the state forest fund.

Virtually all areas for afforestation under the permanent use of the enterprise are already forested. At the same time, our strategic goal remains to implement the President’s “Green Country” program, not only in terms of planting a billion trees but also in increasing Ukraine’s forest cover percentage.

That’s why we constantly work with communities and regional authorities, submitting requests to transfer reserve lands and identified self-forested territories for the enterprise’s use.

The communities of Mykolaiv, Odesa, Chernihiv, Vinnytsia, Poltava, Dnipropetrovsk, and Zaporizhzhia regions have been the most responsive to our requests.

Overall, since the beginning of the year, SE “Forests of Ukraine” has completed the registration of property rights for almost 6.5 thousand hectares of new territories!

All of them will be forested in the future.

Among the latest transfers is a self-forested plot in the territory of the Truskavets city council.

Growing and preserving a forest is a long and painstaking process. By transferring territories to SE “Forests of Ukraine,” communities transfer the costs and responsibility to the state enterprise. However, they benefit from all the advantages of afforestation (clean ecology, biodiversity, tourist attractiveness, timber, and ecosystem services).

The procedure for transferring plots to the state forest fund is not complicated and does not require any costs from the community.

We have provided detailed instructions on how this is done: https://tinyurl.com/2crty9st