The German Government, through the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), has provided a grant of up to 14 million EUR for the implementation of the project “Support to Nature Protected Areas in Ukraine”. The project is conducted within the framework of the German Financial Cooperation and financed by KfW Development Bank. The Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources (MENR) of Ukraine assumes overall responsibility for the implementation and execution of the project. AHT GROUP AG (AHT) in association with the WWF International Danube-Carpathian Programme and Frankfurt Zoological Society (FZS) were awarded the contract by KfW on behalf of MENR to carry out this project as implementation consultant.