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Protected Area Resources

Websites

Wild Russia
The only comprehensive English-language website on Russia’s protected areas, produced by the Center for Russian Nature Conservation.  Igor and wife Laura are major contributors.

Biodiversity Conservation Center 
A comprehensive Russian-language website on Russia’s protected areas system, including history of the zapovednik system and current issues.  

Russian Conservation News
The quarterly journal RCN, produced by the Center for Russian Nature Conservation, publishes up-to-date information in English on protected areas in Russia and Eurasia.

Zapovedniks Environmental Education Centre   
Run by zapovednik activist Natalia Danilina, the Zapovedniks Centre promotes environmental education and public awareness on Russia’s protected areas.

Dersu Uzala Ecotourism Development Fund 
The NGO Dersua Uzala coordinates ecotours to Russia’s zapovedniks and national parks.

World Wide Fund for Nature-Russia   WWF has been active in Russia since the early 1990s, playing an important role in supporting the protected areas system.

Articles

Russia’s Global Treasure, by Laura Williams, E magazine, Sept/Oct 2003

The Wild Wild East, by Paul Webster, The Ecologist, Jan 2003

Where Nature Reigns, by Fred Strebeigh, Sierra Magazine, March/April 2002

Across the Russian Wilds, by Fred Strebeigh, Smithsonian Magazine, June 2001