General information about UCEBA

UCEBA was based in 1995 as one ow working nets of the Theriological School - one of sections of the Ukrainian Theriological Society of NAS of Ukraine (UTS). Among initiators of UCEBA creation there were researchers from Institute of zoology of NASU, Ministry of Ecology and Carpathian biosphere reserve: Igor Zagorodhiuk, Volodymyr Domashlinets and Vasyl Pokynchereda. First name for the centre was "UChC - Ukrainian chiropterological Centre", report on the work of which is included in the book "European bat night' 98 in Ukraine".

UCEBA activity is directed at energization of research of bats' current state in Ukraine and at development of initiatives on conservation of bats, at debugging of the monitoring net's work, at at information interchange between Ukrainian chiropterologists. An important UCEBA task is scientific support for implantation of Agreement on the Conservation of Bats in Europe in Ukraine. Daily work is carried out in the mode of teleconference. Once a year the general meeting takes place ("Bat night") which is carried out in borders of annual meeting of theriologists.

Regional UCEBA nodes

Polissya Region Node — Borys Kedrov (Nizhyn pedagogical university), Sergiy Gaschak (Slavutych).
Podillya-Dnieper Region Node — Volodymyr Tyschenko (National Agricultural University), Nadiya Ruzhilenko (Kaniv natural reserve), Negoda Vadym (Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology).
Eastern Node — Anton Vlaschenko (Kharkiv national university).
Precarpathians-Volyn' Node — Evgenia Srebrodolska, Igor Dykyi, Volodymyr Mysiuk (Lviv national university).
Southern Node — Polischuk Igor ("Askania-Nova" biosphere reserve ), Dulytskyi Alfred (Crimean unplague station of Ukraine).
Transcarpathians Node — Vasyl Pokynchereda (Carpathian biosphere reserve), Robert Vargovych (Mukachevo, Ukrainian Speleological Association)
Central Node — Igor Zagorodniuk, Yaroslav petrushenko, Lena Godlevska (Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology), Volodymyr Domashlynets (Ministry of Ecology of Ukraine).