To protect forests and support the development of sustainable forestry, the Danube-Carpathian Program works in the following areas

• support the conservation management of UNESCO's Natural Heritage Sites as well as protected areas of Ukraine;

• provide support for Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) on forests;

• survey the forest areas to identify virgin and old-growth forests (national legislation categories like “virgin forests”, “quasi-virgin forests” and “natural forests”); prepares materials on granting conservation status to particularly valuable forest areas both in Ukraine and internationally;

• cooperate with the authorities and forest users to support the sustainable forest management in Ukraine, supports the certification of forest areas and their restoration;

• support the law enforcement in the forest sector, as well as the development of the Forest Watch civil society movement to fight corruption in forestry and nature conservation, learning how to keep forests from illegal logging, working with authorities and local communities to reduce these cases.