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Ecostation Hlyboki Balyky
Research, preserve and restore Rzishchiv community biodiversity
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Rzishchiv, Kyiv region, Ukraine
2022 - ongoing
Client
Hlyboki Balyky, Bogdan Popov
Beneficiaries
Hlyboki Balyky Staff, Rzishchiv Family Eco club, refugees during the Russian invasion, around 1’000 guests visiting the ecostation every year (i.a. scientists, students and children of school age)
Key Partners
Kyiv Mohila Academy University
National University of Life Sciences
Ecostation Hlyboki Balyky (part of the Ukrainian Ecostation Network) is a leading Ukrainian ecological research, education and demonstration centre that works at the local level at Rzishchiv community 80 km south from Kyiv capital of Ukraine. It was founded in 2018 with the goal to be a major scientific base for inventory and monitoring of biodiversity in the local community and make a practical replicable case. During the last years of the Russian invasion Hlyboki Balyky experienced many challenges associated with the war. The lack of funding, blackouts and fuel shortages, the need for supporting the refugees who found shelter at the ecostation and the whole array of other difficulties.
The Ecostation pursues six key projects:
- Biodiversity gardens: Creating a demonstration and research garden model with diverse plant species that attract insects and thus create high biodiversity.
- Family Eco club: Creating a community of people at the local level in the Rzishchiv community interested in learning about nature.
- Biochar: Developing a replicable economic model for producing biochar on local level from the wood waste material and using the obtained biochar for different purposes.
- Sky Water: Developing replicable models for rainwater collection and utilising and promoting this at the community level as a way to cope with water deficiency caused by climate change.
- Eco Sanitation: Developing replicable models for decentralised wastewater treatment at community scale involving closed loop approach, treating wastewater as a resource for agriculture.
- Holistic planned pasture management: Developing replicable models for restoring biodiversity in the landscape through pasture animals impact.
We provided Hlyboki Balyky with funding and support for the organisation of the event, which made it possible to carry out the basic functions of the eco-station and also:
Empower
- With our funding support, we helped Hlyboki Balyky to provide salaries for staff guaranteeing the basic functioning of the ecostation even during war times.
Reach and connect
- We organized and co-hosted two national conferences on Biochar and Regenerative Agriculture in Kiev and Lviv as well as a workshop on Ecological Engineering in partnership with Hlyboki Balyky.
Links to publications
- Scientific articles (in Ukrainian) of the Hlyboki Balyky ecostation in the book Biodiversity of the Rzhyshchivska urban amalgamated territorial community.
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