Using Natural Attractions Located on the Transcarpathian region Nature Reserve Fund Territory: Problems and Prospects for Ecotourism

2018 ◽  
Vol 89 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-15
Author(s):  
Lidiia Dubis ◽  
Nataliia Habchak
Keyword(s):  
Nature Reserve ◽  
Biosphere Reserve ◽  
Mineral Waters ◽  
Educational Support ◽  
Natural Park ◽  
Middle Mountains ◽  
Tourist Infrastructure ◽  
Regional Landscape ◽  
Reserve Fund ◽  
River Valleys

This research highlights the main natural attractions of the nature reserve fund of the Transcarpathian region: the Synevir, Uzhansky and Zacharovanyi Kray national natural parks, the Prytysiansky and Synyak regional landscape parks, and the Carpathian Biosphere Reserve. These include, in particular, mountain ridges and peaks, fragments of river valleys, outcrops of rocks and rocky recrements, traces of the glacier (kars, glacier clay), mountain lakes, high moors, numerous springs (including mineral waters), waterfalls (cascading and single-stage), typical and rare species of flora and fauna, as well as valuable forest, subalpine, meadow, flood, etc. ecosystems. Every researched natural reserve territory has its own composition of natural attractions because of location in different natural regions in Ukrainian Carpathians: national natural park "Synevir" demonstrates massif Gorgany in Vododilno-Verhovynski Carpathians; Uzhansky national natural park is fragments of Vododilny middle-mountains highland massif (Vododilno-Verhovynski Carpathians) and Polonynsky massif of Polonynsko-Chornogirski Carpathians; national natural park "Zacharovanyi Kray" is central part of Vygorlat-Gutynsky volcanic strand of Ukrainian Carpathians; regional landscape park "Synyak" – part of mountainstrand of Vygorlat-Gutynsky volcanic strand; regional landscape park "Prytysyansky" – the most valuable natural territories of Prytysyansky alluvial lowland plain (part of Chop-Mukachivska plain). The Carpathian Biosphere Reserve is unique beyond others – it includes six separate massifes (Chornogirsky, Svydovecky, Marmarosky, Kuziysky, Ugolsko-Shyrokoluzansky, Valley of daffodils) and two national botanical reserves ("Chorna Gora" and "Julivska Gora"), which are located on heights from 180 to 2061 m above sea level in west, central and east parts of Ukrainian Carpathians. The most famous of these natural attractions are ecotourist paths and routes operating on the protected nature reserves, near recreational facilities and recreational areas. The biggest problem is the considerable (sometimes excessive) tourist load on these objects, insufficient control over tourist flows, intensive development of tourist infrastructure close to natural attractions and insufficient information and education provision. Some fo the ways to solve these problems are strengthening control over the tourist movement; introducing new types of ecotourism aimed at reducing the simultaneous tourist load on objects and, at the same time, increasing the number of visitors; improving informational and educational support; monitoring of the quality (compliance with environmental standards) of the tourist infrastructure.

scholarly journals Modern situation and perspectives of reserving and geotouristic utilization of Zbarazhsky Tovtry geologic-geomorphologic objects

2015 ◽  
pp. 25-35
Author(s):  
Vitaliy Brusak ◽  
Kateryna Moskalyuk
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Nature Reserve ◽  
River Valley ◽  
Barrier Reef ◽  
Natural Reserve ◽  
Nature Park ◽  
Regional Landscape ◽  
Reserve Fund ◽  
Surrounding Areas

Tovtry is a complex of Miocene fossils reef buildups that rise in a scenic ridge and hills above the surrounding plains of Podillya region. The Tovtry zone consists of main ridge (the late Baden barrier reef), isolated Tovtry hills (the late Baden bioherms, located east of the ridge), isolated tovtry (the early Sarmat bioherms, located west of the main ridge), the territories of the former channels, lagoons and passes between hills, where the modern rivers flows. The correlation and form of relief of Tovtry zone elements are the basis of detailed geomorphologic zoning. Within geomorphological area of Podillian Tovtry distinguish three subdistricts – Zbarazh, Medobory and Kamenec-Podolsky regions. The Zbarazhky Tovtry is stretching from Pidkamin village (Lviv region) to the valley of Gnizna river and includes Mylnivskyy, Zbarazhsky and Lub’yanetskyy hills of Tovtry. Within Podillian Tovtry are 85 objects of nature reserve fund (NRF), dominated by the number of botanical (20) and geological (19) natural monuments. The largest area is occupied by National Nature Park “Podilski Tovtry” (261 316,0 ha) and nature reserve “Medobory” (9 516,7 ha) and 7 landscape reserves (2 423,2 ha). The structure of NRF of Zbarazhsky Tovtry dominated by the number of botanical (6) and geological (6) natural monuments, and the largest area is occupied by 2 zoological reserves (6 041,0 ha). The particularly valuable geologic-geomorphologic objects of Tovtry have been identified (the Tovtry main ridge areas and isolated tovtry hills, the outcrops of reef sediments, rocks, canyon sections of the river valley, waterfalls etc.), they are protected in the form of geological nature monuments “Kydanetski rocks”, “Podillian Tovtry outliers”, “Sarmat sea outliers”, “Big Saddle” and into botanic reserve “Acute grave”. Share of environmental protection objects aimed at the protection of geological and geomorphological Tovtry formations in the Zbarazhsky Tovtry NRF is less than 2 %. The creations of the regional landscape park (RLP) “Zbarazhsky Tovtry” in the territory f the main ridge and surrounding areas with isolated tovtry hills from Left Seret river valley to Stryyovetski stream valley has been proposed. The park administration should be placed in the Zbarazh, where in 1994 the historical and architectural reserve “Zbrazh” has been created. Into RLP reserve zone should be included the most outstanding areas of main ridge (natural landmark Pozharnytsya, mount Hontova, mount Zubova) and isolated tovtry hills (Lub’yanetski Tovtry). The RLP will include “MilneBlihivskyy” (3 488,0 ha) and “Maloberezovytsko-Ivanchanskyy” (2 553,0 ha) zoological reserves, 4 botanical reserves, 5 geological and 2 hydrological reserves, 4 botanical nature monuments. Two circular routes from Zbarazh for the tourism development into regional landscape park “Zbarazhsky Tovtry” have been developed. The first route includes unique historical and architectural monuments and objects of inanimate nature, and the second – botanical and zoological objects and nature monuments. The landscape reserves “Tovtry steppe” and “Stryyovetski Mountains”, geological nature monuments “Fold bordering in the reef limestones in Bilokrynytsya village”, “Kolodiyivski giants”, “Hontva Mountain” and natural landmark “Zaluzhanskyy forest” are proposed to create in Zbarazhsky Tovtry. The chain of nature reserve objects will preserve the unique geological and geomorphological formation of Zbarazhsky Tovtry region. Key words: Zbarazhsky Tovtry, main ridge, isolated tovtry hills, natural reserve fund, outstanding geology-geomorphologic objects, geotourism.

USE OF VARIOUS SATELLITE IMAGERY TO MONITOR HYDROGRAPHIC CONDITIONS IN THE DANUBE DELTA

2020 ◽  
pp. 30-38
Author(s):  
E.S. Petrushenko ◽  
V.K. Khilchevskyi ◽  
M.S. Lubskyi ◽  
M.R Zabokrytska ◽  
M.R Zabokrytska
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Satellite Imagery ◽  
Nature Reserve ◽  
Biosphere Reserve ◽  
Global Network ◽  
Danube Delta ◽  
Biosphere Reserves ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Hydrographic Conditions ◽  
Reserve Fund

The Danube Delta, the second largest river delta in Europe, is the center of global biodiversity. The Danube Delta plays an important role in the self-purification of the Danube water and the binding of pollutants. But over the past 100 years, human intervention has begun in natural processes in the estuary of the Danube, a change in the hydrography of the delta. To ensure the protection of natural complexes of the Danube region, in accordance with the Decree of the President of Ukraine in 1998. The Danube Biosphere Reserve, subordinate to the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, was created on the basis of the Danube Plavni Nature Reserve. By the decision of the International Coordinating Committee of the UNESCO Program “Man and the Biosphere” in 1999 The Danube Biosphere Reserve is included in the global network of biosphere reserves as part of the bilateral Romanian-Ukrainian biosphere reserve “Danube Delta”. According to Article 18 of the Law of Ukraine “On the Nature Reserve Fund of Ukraine” (1992), the legal regime of protected areas of biosphere reserves provides for the limited use of this territory, in particular the prohibition of the construction of structures, roads, linear and other transport and communication facilities not related to the activity of the reserve, as well as the passage and passage of unauthorized persons, the movement of mechanical vehicles. A promising approach in obtaining relevant information for monitoring hydrographic conditions and other environmental components on the territory of the Danube Delta is the use of remote sensing methods of the Earth (ERS). First of all, this is a thematic analysis of images in various spectral ranges obtained by an onboard special complex of remote sensing spacecraft. With their help, you can track changes in the water area of water bodies. After analyzing the results of satellite imagery research for 1987 and 2017, we can conclude that in a fairly short period of time (30 years), significant changes occurred on the territory of the Danube Delta: 1) old lake formed in almost every channel, or the river changed its way; 2) also tangible economic activity of a person – the outlines of the shores have changed, drainage reclamation has been carried out in some wetlands and they have been converted into farmland; 3) part of the territory is untouched – probably refers to the reserve fund. The coastline has changed, which can be explained by the creation of fish farms there, or the flooding of land, since they coincide spectrally with the water surface. As for the technique of working with satellite images, it is better to use the NIR (near infrared) channel, which is in the wavelength range from 0.76 to 0.9 μm with a discontinuity of 30 meters, to determine objects.

scholarly journals The objects of Nature Reserve Fund of Poltava oblast as a factor of ecological tourism development

2020 ◽  
pp. 48-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tetiana Alekseeva
Keyword(s):  
Nature Reserve ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Nature Management ◽  
Recreational Activity ◽  
Ecological Balance ◽  
Environmental Objects ◽  
Natural Reserve ◽  
Regional Landscape ◽  
Reserve Fund ◽  
Ecological Tourism

The feature of present time is a sharp deterioration of environmental quality, so it is important to form the population with careful attitude to nature. The efficient approach of influence on the people’s consciousness is ecological tourism that is spreading in many countries. Its development in Ukraine is closely connected to environmental areas. That’s why the Nature Reserve Fund for ecological tourism development question is interesting and socially important. At one time, the contribution to the development of ecological tourism was made by domestic and foreign scientists. In this way works of A. S. Kuskov considered the main tasks of ecological tourism and requirements for work. O. Dmytruk defined principles, functions, and integration foundations of ecological tourism. V. V. Khrabovchenko studied the question of origin and development of ecological tourism and analyzed the phenomena of ecological tourism as a factor of stable development. General theoretical and practical aspects of recreational nature management in Ukraine were covered by K. Y. Kilinska, V. M. Rudenko, N. P. Anipko, N. S. Andrusiak, N. I. Konovalova. The foreign scientists B. Dzhons, R. Bakli, H. Lofman developed the conception of ecological tourism. The each region has its own specific conditionals of development of ecological tourism. Among them is the Natural Reserve Fund. The aim of this work is to study the objects of Poltava Regional Natural Reserve Fund as factors of ecological tourism development. The paper used the domestic and foreign geographical sources and methods: descriptive, analytical, synthesis, comparison, deduction, graphic, cartographic and others. Nowadays there are in existence several definitions of the concept ecological tourism. The Ukrainian scientist O. Beidyk thinks ecotourism is a recreational activity which has the least impact on the natural environment. The ecological routes are applied for different purposes: recreational, educational and upbringing, gaining the emotional impressions from communication with nature etc. The Nature Reserve Fund – is a territories and objects which have a special protective, scientific, recreational and other value. They are created for saving the natural diversity, maintaining the general ecological balance and environmental monitoring. Ukraine has 11 categories of nature-reserved objects. All of them differ in potential needed for ecological tourism development. There are 384 objects in Poltava oblast. They make up 4,95% of a the total area of the region. Among them there are 178 partial reserves, 2 national natural parks, 5 regional landscape parks, 137 natural monuments, 2 dendrological parks, 1 botanic garden. The partial reserves are one among the most numerous environmental objects of Poltava oblast. They are created to maintain the ecological balance and to save biological kinds and natural complexes. Botanical, landscape, geological, hydrological, forest partial reserves of Poltava oblast are picturesque areas around coasts of rivers where the plants are well preserved. The environmental legislation still has not provided them for recreational use. Natural monuments are a big category of environmental objects that have protective, scientific, cognitive, cultural, and recreational value. The most promising for tourism developing are complex, botanical, geological and hydrological natural monuments. They can be attracted to make ecological routes, or be used for educational and upbringing purposes. A large value for ecological tourism development has regional landscape parks that are created to save natural complexes and objects to provide the conditions for rest of population. The main functions of regional landscape parks are protective, defense the culture and history memorabilia, recreational and educational. Among of such objects Dykan regional landscape park that saves age-old broadleaf forests. The regional landscapes Kremenchuk Plains park is located within the floodplain and island of Dnipro (Zelenyi and Shalamai) has a lot of opportunities for making of ecologically oriented routes, organizing excursions for pupils and students. Protect tracts are characterized by considerable potential for development of ecological tourism, but the legislative mechanism to use them are still unregulated. The dendrological parks are made to save different kinds of trees and shrubs for the most efficient scientific, cultural, recreational, educational use. So their resources are actively attracted to organization of tourist activity. In this way, the ecological tours are done in the Ustimov dendrological park, where visitors can become familiar with its interesting history and variety of plants. So, environmental territories and objects play a big role for development of ecological tourism in Poltava oblast. The resource of national landscape parks are attracted to the most to recreational activity. The cognitive direction of ecological tourism is the most important for dendrological parks, natural monuments, botanical gardens of Poltava oblast. This gives them special educational and upbringing value. The organization of tourist activities within the protected tracts and environmental areas can still be considered (with some exceptions) as a potential task.

THE NETWORK AND THE STRUCTURE OF COMPLEX, GEOLOGICAL AND HYDROLOGICAL MONUMENTS OF NON-LIVING NATURE OF LVIV OBLAST, UKRAINE

2020 ◽  
pp. 3-17
Keyword(s):  
Nature Reserve ◽  
Mineral Waters ◽  
Complex Nature ◽  
Conservation Value ◽  
Cultural Importance ◽  
National Importance ◽  
River Outflow ◽  
Reserve Fund ◽  
Living Nature ◽  
Current List

This article presents the current list and designed maps of monuments of non-living nature of Lviv region in Ukraine as well as some recommendations and suggestions for its improvement. The list of monuments of non-living nature is the most numerous category in the structure of the nature reserve fund of Ukraine in general and Lviv region in particular. There are 199 monuments of non-living nature in the Lviv region up to 2019: 2 objects of national importance and 197 of local importance. Depending on the object of protection, the monuments of non-living nature of Lviv region can be divided into botanical (122), hydrological (34), complex (20), geological (19) and forest (4). The majority of complex nature monuments cover specific forms of relief (individual hills, rocks, caves) with the complex nature conservation value and often historical and cultural importance. The large number of complex monuments of non-living nature is located in Skole and Zolochiv raions, a few in Brody and Yavoriv raions, and just a monument in each of Staryi Sambir, Turka, Drohobych, Kamianka-Buzka, Stryi and Mykolaiv raions. Geological monuments of non-living nature are organized for the preserve caves, rocks, geological outcrops, erosion deposits, and glacial formations. These natural monuments are distributed in ten administrative raions and in Lviv, generally related to the mountains in Lviv region, the Precarpathian plain and the Podolian upland. Hydrologic monuments of non-living nature include 29 springs and wells, 3 waterfalls, the peatland and the river outflow. The springs and wells of the mineral waters of the resorts of Morshyn (7), Truskavets (4), Schklo (6), Rozluch (4) and Velykyi Liubin (1) have a special reserved status. A majority of hydrological monuments are located in Stryi (7), Drohobych (6), Yavoriv (6) and Turka (5) raions. It is proposed to add the following geological monuments of non-living nature such as complex of rocks with caves in Mykolaiv raion, the butte of Chervona Gora in the Zhovkva raion and the complex of rocks in Skole raion to the list of monuments of non-living nature. Further research in the region should include the following objects such as abandoned mining objects, wells and springs of Skhidnytsia resort, drainage of the river Styr. Key words: monuments of non-living nature; geological monuments; hydrological monuments; Lviv oblast.

scholarly journals GEOECOLOGICAL STATE OF BISTRIZA-TLUMACH’S AND PRYDNIESTER-POKUTSKIY HIGHLIGHTS

2019 ◽  
pp. 21-33
Author(s):  
Oleg Adamenko ◽  
Denis Zorin ◽  
Natalia Zorina ◽  
Kateryna Radlovska
Keyword(s):  
Nature Reserve ◽  
Environmental Changes ◽  
Ecological Status ◽  
Ecological Assessment ◽  
Anthropogenic Influence ◽  
Natural Landscapes ◽  
Nature Park ◽  
Regional Landscape ◽  
Reserve Fund ◽  
The Right

Abstract. The anthropogenic environmental changes over the past decade have become global for the entire globe. They deeply penetrate into all components of the environment - the lithosphere, the geomorphosphere, the hydropower and the atmosphere, the soil and vegetation, alter the physical fields of the Earth and the Cosmos, transforming the original natural landscapes into natural and human-made geosystems and endangering human health and life. Especially sensitive to changes are the least protected natural landscapes on the territories of the nature reserve fund - natural monuments, nature reserves, regional parks, national natural parks, natural and biosphere reserves. The article deals with the issues of technogenic influence on the part of the territory of the Dniester Regional Landscape Park - Bistriza-Tlumach’s and Prydniester-Pokutskiy hills of the Prut-Dniester interfluve in Ivano-Frankivsk region. The authors carried out an ecological assessment of the environmental components of the specified territory - geological environment, relief, hydro- and atmosphere, soil and vegetation cover. Recommendations on the reduction of anthropogenic influence by introducing geoinformation technology of environmental protection, its modeling and forecasting are offered. Most of the study area has a generally normal ecological status. There are favorable conditions along the Dniester Canyon, where the oxygen content in the atmospheric air is higher than the average. Within a short distance of the Dniester Canyon from the north-west to the southeast, lanes of satisfactory condition stretch. Within them, five sites of complex ecological status have been identified. The comparison of the obtained data of the ecological assessment of the heights on the right riverside with the adjacent territory on the left riverside of the Dniester – located there National Nature Park “Dniester Canyon” showed that practically all geo-ecological structures of the right bank have their continuation on the left riverside. It follows that the Dnistrovsky Regional Landscape Park should be transferred to the category of nature reserve fund “National Nature Park” and be combined with the National Park “Dnistrovsky Canyon”. Keywords: environmental assessment; geoecological state; environmental components; inter-rivers; hills; anthropogenic influence; GIS-technologies.

SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH IN THE VISIM NATURE RESERVE: FROM THE VISIM RESERVE TO THE BIOSPHERE RESERVE

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.Y. FEDOROV ◽  
◽  
I.A. KUZNETSOVA ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Nature Reserve ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Biosphere Reserve ◽  
Metallurgical Industry ◽  
Southern Taiga ◽  
Joint Research ◽  
Educational Tourism ◽  
Nature Preservation ◽  
Recreational Pressure ◽  
Taiga Forests

This article presents a historical analysis of human impact and further step-by-step nature reserve creation within the territory of the current Visimsky State Biosphere Reserve. From the end of XVII to the middle of XX centuries the ecosystem of low-mountain southern taiga forests in the Middle Ural region was strongly exploited by a local mining and metallurgical industry. The establishment of the Visim State Reserve in 1946 did not provide sustainable results but initiated research studies that laid a foundation for a subsequent preservation and the studies of the endemic taiga forests of the Middle Ural in the framework of the modern Visimsky State Biosphere Reserve. Since 1975 the science department of the reserve has conducted regular observations of the nature processes. The reserve has established long-term and efficient collaboration with the Institute of Ecology of Animals and Plants, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The joint research findings are used in practical solutions of the nature preservation in the region. This collaboration is also focused on the monitoring of the recreational pressure caused by the educational tourism.

scholarly journals Aligning the social, environmental, and economic interests of “green growth” of the Ukrainian nature reserve fund objects

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-104
Author(s):  
Natalya Andryeyeva ◽  
Nina Khumarova ◽  
Tatiana Nikolaychuk
Keyword(s):  
Nature Reserve ◽  
Green Growth ◽  
Economic Interests ◽  
Monitoring Method ◽  
The Social ◽  
Strategic Monitoring ◽  
Reserve Fund ◽  
Social Environmental ◽  
Management Functions ◽  
Institutional Traps

The article is devoted to the issues of forming the institutional basis for “green growth” of the Ukrainian Nature Reserve Fund territories in the context of aligning the society’s social, environmental, and economic interests. The methodological approaches to forming the institutional basis for “green growth” of the Ukrainian Nature Reserve Fund territories in conditions of the need to transform the approaches regarding the interaction with small and medium-sized businesses were developed. The main focus is on the issues of studying the existing institutional risks, institutional “traps,” and ensuring the stakeholders’ functional interaction. The proposed scheme for managing and planning the spatial development of the Nature Reserve Fund territories is based on business planning, “micro-K modeling” method, strategic monitoring method. Based on the complex combination of ecosystemic and polyfunctional approaches, the typology of Nature Reserve Fund territories management functions and “green growth” indicators system was defined. The institutional framework was formed, which enables to ensure aligning the society’s social, environmental, and economic interests.

From war zone to biosphere reserve: the Korean DMZ as a Scientific Landscape

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa M. Brady
Keyword(s):  
Environmental History ◽  
Nature Reserve ◽  
Conservation Status ◽  
Biosphere Reserve ◽  
Border Regions ◽  
War Zone ◽  
History Of ◽  
Land Use Policies ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Scientific Value

The Korean DMZ—at once a war zone, a historical landscape and a living laboratory—offers a compelling example of how scientific fieldwork can alter the definition of place. This article explores how scientists introduced new layers of meaning to the region, thereby contributing to shifts in perspective about the border area and to changes in land-use policies there. As early as the mid 1960s, scientists described the DMZ as a scientifically unique and valuable place and argued for setting it aside as a nature reserve; by the late 1990s, the vision of the DMZ as a scientific landscape gained currency both within Korea and internationally and has become central to discussions about the zone's future. This article draws from published and unpublished scientific reports whose authors directly argue for assigning official conservation status to all or part of the DMZ and its border regions; it aims to demonstrate the important role scientists have played in redefining the DMZ through highlighting its environmental and scientific value. The article places these developments within the larger environmental history of Korea, suggesting links between changing emphases in environmental activism and policy-making and evolving ideas about the value and purpose of the DMZ.

Alien species in the flora of the nature reserve fund of the flatland part of Ukraine

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. I. Burda ◽  
M. A. Golivets ◽  
O. Z. Petrovych
Keyword(s):  
Alien Species ◽  
Nature Reserve ◽  
Reserve Fund
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