Kastyan Island,
the White Sea ©M.Blinnikov
Biodiversity Conservation Center (BCC) supports nature conservation throughout the former Soviet Union. BCC is a non-profit, non-governmental organization developing its own innovative programs and assisting other conservation groups in information exchange, project design, education, legal issues, research and fundraising.
Dear friends:
Today we have our last chance to save the wild nature of
Northern
Eurasia , also known as
the former Soviet Union.
The greatest ecological assets of this region are its vast and wild ecosystems, which comprise one quarter of the world's forests and approximately sixty percent of the world's peat bogs. Because most of these naturally evolving ecosystems still remain in their pristine state, they are able to serve as enormous natural laboratories, indicating the condition of the biosphere as a whole and helping to maintain global ecological balance. Here we have our last chance to protect wild nature in all its integrity on a scale which is large enough to allow for natural fluctuations and evolution of biota.
In the last five years radical political and economic changes in the FSU have drastically altered the decades-old methods of conservation work in this part of the world. Our Center supports all initiatives aimed at protecting wild Eurasian nature in these precarious times.
Northern Eurasia is fortunate to have scientists and conservation activists who are highly skilled at handling the region's urgent conservation issues. Their work, however, deserves a great deal more support than their governments are able to provide. We hope that as you become familiar with some of our projects described here you will want to join us in our efforts to save the last wild places on our planet.
Sincerely,
Evgeny Shvarts, Ph.D.
Chairman of BCC Board.
BCC Executive Director: Dmitrii Aksenov
BCC was created in Moscow in November of 1992 by members of the Socio-Ecological Union, the largest environmental network in the former Soviet Union. Over the past five years BCC has grown from a group of five individuals into a mature organization with 10 employees and dozens of volunteers. BCC is governed by a Board, called the "BCC Council". BCC runs a number of programs with many projects. The group also operates an Information and Publication Service, as well as a Conservation Finance Service. The BCC office is located in Moscow, Russia.
Most BCC programs are implemented in close cooperation with other organizations active in nature conservation in Northern Eurasia. In addition, BCC has two affiliate partner organizations - the Center for Russian Nature Conservation (CRNC) in the United States, and Kiev Ecological and Cultural Center in the Ukraine.
Attention! Note address and phone change in 1998!
To contact BCC, please write to our Moscow address:
Russia, 117312, Moscow, Ul.
Vavilova, 41, Office 2
Biodiversity Conservation Center
Yulia Kuleshova, Program and Communications Officer
Phone: +7(095)124-7178
or e-mail us at: biodivers@glasnet.ru
To find the BCC office in Moscow, take the Metro (Orange Line) to "Leninski Prospect" station, then take any southbound tramway going on Vavilova street to "Ul. Gubkina". The office is located in a two-storey yellow building across the street. We look forward to hearing from you!
Director: Vladimir Boreiko
In 1996 this leading Ukrainian conservation group joined BCC as an affiliate partner. The group is widely known for its innovative programs, including:
Vladimir Boreiko, Director
252218, Ukraine, Kiev
ul. Raduzhnaya 31, kv. 48
Phone: (044)442-3846
E-mail: vladimir@kekz.freenet.viaduk.net