VOICE FROM THE WILD:
BCC- Who are we?

PROTECTED AREAS

• Leaders of Russia's protected areas take desperate measures in a desperate situation
• The ministry is ready to suppress the opposition
• Sports in conservation news
• Crisis in one of Russia's Nature Reserves
• National Parks in the News
• Vodlozerski National Parks- laeding the way in ranger training
• Student internship in ethnography, ecology, and history in a Russian national park

CONFLICT RESOLUTION AND CONSERVATION

• The Peipsi (Chudskoye) lake project, seen through the eyes of a conflictologist
• The Arctic- once a challenge to conquer, now a challenge to conserve
• USAID's Russian Far East sustainable natural resources management project

FAR EASTERN FOREST FOCUS

• Evolving concerns of Russian environmentalists
• Underlying threats

RARE AND ENDANGERED SPECIES

• The Arctic foxes of Mednyi (Copper) Island

CONSERVATION LEGISLATION

CONSERVATION NGOs

• Environmental educators pool resources, share ideas
• Nature should have her own people
• WWF in Russia- World Wild Fund for nature
• Ecological traditions of the Kola Pomori people
• Russian "Conservation training team" takes to the road.... in the USA with TNC
• Russian government takes up dialogue on sustainable development

CONSERVATION CONTACTS

CONSERVATION CONFERENCE CALENDAR