This decision was made during a session of the regional council at the request of the Lviv Regional State Administration.
Unique virgin forest areas with a total area of over 378 hectares within the Slavske Forestry and Sambir Forestry branches have become virgin forest natural monuments of local significance.
At the request of the Lviv Regional State Administration, the Lviv Regional Council has decided to declare the following nature conservation sites at its session today:
- Valechnyna-Berdo, a virgin forest natural monument of local significance;
- Gostylivska virgin forest natural monument of local significance;
- a virgin forest natural monument of local significance “Pid Plai”;
- Terlivska virgin forest natural monument of local significance;
- Kulparkiv, a park-monument of landscape art of local significance.
Granting nature protection status will help to ensure a proper environmental protection regime, maintain the ecological balance of the territory, raise environmental awareness of the population and allow to limit activities that could damage or destroy the environment, and thus preserve it for future generations.
It should also be noted that the Kulparkiv Park, a park-monument of landscape art of local importance, which was formed by the famous nineteenth-century city gardeners Karl Bauer and Arnold Roehring, was declared with the aim of preserving and restoring the landscape-therapeutic environment, elements of landscape compositions and age-old dendrological communities on Kulparkivska Street in Lviv.
“The announcement of the new primeval forest nature monuments and the park monument of landscape art in Lviv region is an important step towards environmental protection and maintaining ecological balance. Thanks to the efforts of scientists, the regional state administration and the support of the regional council, these areas have been granted nature protection status, which will help preserve our Carpathian beech and fir forests and the park for future generations. I hope that such initiatives will be supported in the future,” said Oksana Viytyk, Acting Director of the Department of Ecology and Natural Resources of Lviv Regional State Administration.
The Department would like to thank the scientists of the Danube-Carpathian Programme and Lviv Polytechnic National University who conducted a survey of the currently protected areas of Lviv region and contributed to the creation of nature reserves in accordance with the Law of Ukraine “On the Nature Reserve Fund of Ukraine”.