PROTECTED AREAS

• A national park for the Jewish Autonomous Region: Conserving cultural and biological diversity
• Endangered ecosystems: Meadow Steppe
• After thirty years, Amur region gets a new Zapovednik
• Ancient sites gain new status: Ugra national park
• Conserving culture and forests in the Russian north II: Kenozerski National park

FOCUS: BOREAL FOREST UNDER THREAT

• Prime Minister Chernomyrdin signs away Karelia’s forests
• The green belt of Karelia: the last stand
• The Russian- Finnish border zone: preserving valuable western Taiga

NEWS OF THE DAY

• Russian congress protected areas on nature conservation: Agony or promise of a dialogue?
• ECOFORUM’95
• ECOFORUM’95: Environmental groups from the Former Soviet Union gather in Kiev for a second "discovery of America"
• New biological station established in the Arctic: Willem Barents’ biological station

CONSERVATION LEGISLATION

• A new law is passed in the Russian federation "on animal world"

ENDANGERED SPECIES

• Elusive and endangered: the snow leopard of Central Asia
• From Steppe to store: the trade in Saiga antelope horn
• Northern Sakhalin: unique zone of biodiversity in danger
• Not just a thistle...
• The status of the Mediterranean tortoise (Testudo Graeca nikolskii) in the northern Caucasus

BULLETIN BOARD

• Corrections from last issue:
• Know Your Metrics?

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