Eugene is an environmental activist, journalist and researcher, focusing on freshwater ecosystem conservation, impacts of globalization on environment and empowering civil society to protect nature across borders. For 35 years he has participated in global environmental movement, while living in Russia, USA, China, Mongolia, Israel and now resides in Australia, pursuing PhD research at University of New South Wales. He holds Master’s degree in Environmental Studies from Yale School of Environment (US) and Professional Doctorate in Nature Conservation from Northeast Forestry University (PRC). For conservation achievements he was awarded Whitley Award (UK) in 2013 and Misha Jones Award (Russia-USA) in 2015. For his efforts to protect Lake Baikal and boreal rivers in 2014 Eugene was banned from returning to Mongolia and in 2021 inсscribed on the List of Foreign Agents by the Government of Russia.
Eugene’s email: esimonovster@gmail.com
Articles at UWEC:
- Military oil spill (2): Scale and consequences of the catastrophe for flora and fauna and the region’s ecosystems
- Military oil spill: How the Kerch Strait tanker disaster is linked to Russia’s ‘shadow fleet’ oil exports
- Distributed electricity generation in Ukraine: the risks and opportunities
- Ukraine’s UNESCO World Heritage sites at risk as war goes on
- The thirsty peninsula: How much water will Crimea need in the future?
- How restoration of Ukraine’s ecosystems is being discussed at European conferences
- After the deluge: One year on, can the ecosystems disrupted by the destruction of the Kakhovka Dam recover?
- Sanctions against Russia: the Australian mining connection
- ‘А la guerre comme à la guerre’: Military geopolitics see return of controversial megaprojects
- International banking projects and restoring Lower Dnipro’s ecosystems
- UNESCO condemns construction of border fences
- Gas intrigues: Pipelines, nature reserves, NGOs and the war
- Does Russia have a “green” future?
- Greenpeace. Instead of an epilogue ‘
- “Under the guise of defending nature… they tried to influence government decision-making”
- Moscow turns rocket sights on its own heritage
- Seals: Victims of war, greenhouse gasses, or asphyxiation caused by commercial fishing?
- Defense ministry declares war on forests?
- If not by sword then by plowshare: the ecological impacts of a war-induced food crisis
- Does REPowerEU Reinforce or Contradict the Green Deal?
- Environmental lawlessness during wartime
- War-time gold rush
- Restoring nature on agricultural lands: a comparative analysis of legislative innovation in Ukraine and Russia
- Lake Baikal at War
- War and Rivers: a conversation with Eugene Simonov
- Plans to rebuild Ukraine shaped by solutions for Irpin
- First wartime agreement in jeopardy?
- Hydroelectric dams as weapons: virtual and actual
- Polar Bear vs. Military Monsters