Protected Areas

• Russia adopts new federal law on protected areas
• Rangers’ disappearance from Sayano
• Shushenski zapovednik remains a mystery
• IUCN commission’s on national parks and protected areas in Northern Eurasia
• High-speed railroad threatens wilderness of central Russia
• A new national park is organized in Russia
• Russians make a show of support for national parks on earth day
• Mass media in environmental education
• Topic at Russian Ukrainian seminar

FOCUS

• Investing in the future of Russia’s biodiversity immediate action plan for Russia’s protected areas
• National parks of Russia today and tomorrow

RARE AND ENDANGERED SPECIES

• Menzbier’s marmot the rarest marmot of Eurasia

ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION

• Educating the future environmentalists of the Former Soviet Union an ecosystem approach

CONFLICTS IN CONSERVATION

• Development threatens Svalbard arctic wilderness in Norway
• Do we really need eco-funds?

CONSERVATION LEGISLATION

• Participation of Russia in international conventions on nature conservation

CONSERVATION FINANCE

• Financing of biodiversity conservation in the Russian federation

CONSERVATION NGOS

• Operation "snowdrop": a mission to save rare spring flowers
• Preserving forests of the Kola peninsula from fields to forests, rags to riches restoring biodiversity
• Russia office for Traffic Europe is established
• Conference to confront conservation problems in post-USSR Turkmenistan
• News from the conservation of arctic flora and fauna (CAFF) group
• National parks and Zapovedniki form associations
• Russian Bird Conservation Union

CONSERVATION LIBRARY

BULLETIN BOARD

• Conference in Northern Turkmenistan
• Corrections from last issue

CONSERVATION CONTACTS