Biosphere reserve A nature reserve (also known as a wildlife refuge, wildlife sanctuary, biosphere reserve or bioreserve, natural or nature preserve, or nature conservation area) is a protected area of importance for flora, fauna, or features of geological or ...

s of

Ukraine Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inva ...

( uk, Біосферні резервати України, translit=Biosferni rezervaty Ukrayiny) are preservation territories of international importance that are part of the Nature-Preservation Fund of Ukraine.

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The Ukrainian legislation has its own regulations about biosphere reserves which differs slightly from international. Nonetheless Ukraine recognizes the International designation for natural conservation as well. Thus in Ukraine exist two concepts biosphere reserve and biosphere preserves ( uk, біосферних заповідники, translit=biosferni zapovidnyky, link=no). Biosphere preserves existed in the

Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nationa ...

before establishment of the

UNESCO The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a List of specialized agencies of the United Nations, specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) aimed at promoting world peace and security through international coope ...

's Man and the Biosphere Programme in 1971. Particularly in Ukraine,

Carpathian Biosphere Reserve Carpathian Biosphere Reserve ( uk, Карпатський біосферний заповідник) is a biosphere reserve that was established as a nature reserve in 1968 and became part of the World Network of Biosphere Reserves of UNESCO in 1 ...

was created in 1968, but was admitted to the MAB programme only after

fall of the Soviet Union The dissolution of the Soviet Union, also negatively connoted as rus, Разва́л Сове́тского Сою́за, r=Razvál Sovétskogo Soyúza, ''Ruining of the Soviet Union''. was the process of internal disintegration within the Sov ...

in 1992. Since 2012 there are eight biosphere reserves in Ukraine from the original three that the country inherited from the Soviet Union (

Ukrainian SSR The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic ( uk, Украї́нська Радя́нська Соціалісти́чна Респу́бліка, ; russian: Украи́нская Сове́тская Социалисти́ческая Респ ...

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