PRELIMINARY EVALUATION OF THE IMPACT OF PROBLEM ANIMAL SPECIES ON ECOSYSTEMS AND POPULATION OF THE DOWNSTREAM OF THE SULA RIVER REGION

Abstract

Animals are a significant component of the biodiversity of the National Park and the surrounding region, playing a crucial role in the functioning of ecosystems, particularly protected ones. Some animal species are capable, at certain periods of their life cycle, of negatively affecting ecosystems, habitats, and other species of flora and fauna, of posing a danger to visitors to the National Park and the local population – such animal species are classified as problematic. The Biosafety and Biological Protection Strategy provides, in particular, for the development and implementation of practical measures to prevent the penetration, control the spread, and mitigate the consequences of the spread of biological agents and invasive alien species at the state and local levels. The first stage of this important direction of scientific and technical activity, which should be developed in the National Park, is the inventory, study of the territorial distribution and assessment of the number of invasive alien species of animals.