The most numerous animals on Earth are insects, exceeding one million species distributed in the most diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Currently, 20% of the known insect species are butterflies, and about 40% – beetles. Approximately 1000 species of macrolepidoptera and 2550 species of beetles are known in the Republic of Moldova, the number of which is increasing every year due to research conducted by entomologists. 

The employees of the Institute of Zoology donate financial means equivalent to the salary for 1 working day in support of refugees from Ukraine.

The Board of Directors of the Research Institutes, on behalf of all employees of the public law organizations in the field of research and innovation they lead, expresses its full solidarity with the heroic struggle of the Ukrainian people for the right to decide sovereignly their destiny and achieve their European vocation. The cause of the Ukrainian people is right and legitimate, as sovereignty, territorial integrity and independence of the state are being threatened.

Methodological guide for monitoring the hydropower impact on transboundary river ecosystems was elaborated in the frame of the international project eMS BSB 165 Creating a system of innovative transboundary monitoring of the Black Sea river ecosystems transformation under impacts of hydropower development and climate change – HydroEcoNex (Joint Operational Program Black Sea Basin 2014-2020, financed by the European Union).

During the period January 3 to 28, 2022, the Institute of Zoology was visited by Laëtitia Demay, a Doctor of Prehistoric Archeology and scientific researcher of the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, France.

The edition of the show ”Between YES and NO"” from 9 February 2022, which is broadcasted by the radio station Eco FM, had as guests corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova Elena Zubcov, head of the Center of Research of Hydrobiocenoses and Ecotoxicology, dr.hab. Dumitru Bulat, head of the Laboratory of Ichthyology and Aquaculture, and Ion Gologan, scientific researcher in the Laboratory of Parasitology and Helminthology.

On 11 February, the scientific community celebrates the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, as result of the United Nations General Assembly resolution A/RES/70/212 adopted in December 2015. The initiative had the aim to promote the employment of women and girls in the sciences, to encourage the career development and participation in the decision-making processes in science, to recognize the achievements of women in science.

Monograph „Parasitofauna, the impact of parasitoses on the main species of hunting importance, prevention and treatment”, author – dr. assoc.prof.

Guidance on the monitoring of water quality and assessment of the ecological status of aquatic ecosystems (editors: dr. Lucia Biletchi, corr.mem. Elena Zubcov) was elaborated by the researchers of the Laboratory of Hydrobiology and Ecotoxicology and the Laboratory of Ichthyology and Aquaculture in the frame of the project no. 20.80009.7007.06 AQUABIO, State Program (2020-2023).

At the meeting from 12 January 2022, in order to streamline the process of preparing scientific personnel by PhD programs, motivate the young people to engage in research, development and innovation, the Government of the Republic of Moldova approved the Government Decision on awarding the Government Scholarship of Excellence and Scholarship on scientific fields for PhD students for 2022.