Olga Krever, expert adviser for the Upper Environmental Council of the Committee for Natural Resources, Nature Use and Ecology, Russian Federal Parliament, spoke during the Saturday (7 November) WILD9 plenary on Global Wilderness commitments, specifically on "Russia's Contribution to Conserving Globally-Significant Wilderness."
6. The Russian National System of Protected Areas 101 Strict Nature Reserves / Zapovedniks (IUCN Ia, Ib) - 33,8 mln . ha 41 National Parks (IUCN II) - 7, 8 mln. ha 69 federal-level Refuges / Zakazniks - 12,7 mln . ha 50 Natural Parks - 15,28 mln . ha 4276 regional-level Refuges / Zakazniks - 101,4 mln . ha 9235 Natural Monuments - 4,1 mln . ha
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9. GAP analysis of federal-level PAs in Russia Priority areas for federal-level PAs designation geographical representativeness biodiversity representativeness habitat of threatened species areas of international importance existing federal PAs
12. Main threats : poaching, habitat degradation ( shrinkin g sea ice due to climate change ) Polar Bear
13. Far Eastern Leopard P opulation - no more than 30 individuals Main threats : fragmentation of habitat from economic development, deforestation, roads
14. Main threats : declining numbers of Caprinae (main food of Snow Leopard) due to poaching Snow Leopard N umber of population – 150-200 individuals
15. Species was extinct in the wild in the 1920s and was conserved only ex situ in breeding centers. At present two wild herds were reintroduced in central part of Russia. Conservation of European Bison Success and results in endangered species conservation
16. Conservation of Amur Tiger Through joint efforts of governmental structures and NGOs the number of Amur Tigers in Russia has stabilized at level of 450 individuals
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18. Conservation of Amur Tiger 3 new National Parks (2007) Existing Tiger PAs ~ 25% of Tiger habitat now under protection 22
Russia is the largest country in the world and provides the chance to conserve biological diversity at large scales. Russia covers 9 time zones and has a variety of landscapes. To give you an idea of its sheer size, a flight traveling the nearly 4000 mile distance from Moscow to Kamchatka takes nine hours (click). If you were to draw a line the same distance south from Moscow, you would end up in South Africa. A line to the west would take you beyond New York City.
All the biomes of the northern hemisphere can be found in Russia: arctic deserts, tundra, coniferous forests, mixed and deciduous, forest steppe, steppe, deserts V irgin forests have importance for g lobal ecology comparable to rain forests (click) Intact areas of wilderness allow large-scale animal migrations (click) 3 of the world’s nine major migratory bird routes extend across Russia
Темно зеленые – это как далеко лосось проникает на суше – The dark green represents how far salmon penetrate into land, while the dark blue is the marine range. One of the few species that links terrestrial and marine ecosystems