Oleksii Vasyliuk is a Ukrainian environmentalist specializing in protected areas and biodiversity conservation. He graduated from Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv with a zoology degree. Since 2004, Oleksii has served in the Animal Monitoring and Conservation program at the Institute of Zoology (Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences). He participates actively in the work of several professional community organizations, including past cooperation with Students’ Nature Conservation Group, National Ecological Center of Ukraine, and Environment-People-Law. Since 2014, Oleksii has led Ukrainian Nature Conservation Group, a biologist experts organization. He is the author of more than 700 publications related to environmental conservation, largely in popular science. He has also co-authored 20 articles and four books about the environmental impacts of Russia’s invasion of eastern Ukraine and annexation of the Crimean Peninsula in 2014. He has initiated the creation of more than 60 new protected areas in Ukraine. Oleksii is an assistant to deputies of the Supreme Council of Ukraine, defending interests of nature protection. His interests include biodiversity monitoring, protected areas, and the history of environmental conservation.
Articles at UWEC:
- Beyond scrutiny: How the war is hampering civil environmental monitoring in Ukraine
- The toxic legacy of the Kakhovka Reservoir
- Caution, mines! The future of mined landscapes
- Danger! Mines! The terrible environmental and human cost of Ukraine’s minefields
- Protected areas and war: two years of humanitarian aid
- Military fortifications in Ukraine – what comes next?
- International banking projects and restoring Lower Dnipro’s ecosystems
- Restoring Ukraine’s nature post-war: Hopes and risks
- The Crimean Bridge. Environmental impact of Russia’s “project of the century”
- Military combat impacts on ecosystem services in Ukraine
- Askania Nova Biosphere Reserve captured by invaders
- Environmental fakes: How false environmental news is used in the information war
- Unregulated coal mining destroys Donbas nature
- Nine years after Crimea’s annexation: militarization’s environmental consequences
- Should the Oskil Reservoir be rebuilt after the war?
- “Nature’s biggest challenges could begin after the war’s end”
- Future of munitions-damaged Ukrainian lands
- 20 plants that could disappear because of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
- Restoring nature on agricultural lands: a comparative analysis of legislative innovation in Ukraine and Russia
- Can the Iron Curtain Be Green? Europe’s nature is being divided by fences and fortifications
- Mass dolphin mortality in the Black Sea: a military perspective
- Plans to rebuild Ukraine shaped by solutions for Irpin
- Pollution of the Bug estuary following damage to Mykolaiv’s main wastewater treatment facility
- War-torn river basins?
- Protected areas and border zones in Ukraine: How to harmonize them?
- Hydroelectric dams as weapons: virtual and actual
- Biology in Bomb Shelters
- Flames of war: How Ukraine lost over 1,000 square kilometers of forest
- After the deluge: One year on, can the ecosystems disrupted by the destruction of the Kakhovka Dam recover?
- Distributed electricity generation in Ukraine: the risks and opportunities
- Spontaneous recovery in wartime: How Ukraine can become a testing ground for unique environmental projects