VOICE FROM THE WILD (Letter from the editors)

PROTECTED AREAS

• Russian parliament hears about Zapovedniki and national parks
• At the forefront and warfront of protected areas management in Russia
• The Russian north forests and people of Pinezhski Reserve
• The epic lands of "Vepski Les": their past and future
• Spring and the animal kingdom of Ussuriski Zapovednik

LEGISLATION

• Moldovian forests fall to economic changes
• World bank Russian lederation forest policy review
• World bank in the Russian forestry sector - Russian NGO’s point of view

FOCUS: THE WOLF IN RUSSIA

• Wolf - predator or victim?
• The wolf in Russia caught between hunters and environmentalists
• Poisons vs knowledge?

MANAGEMENT

• The ecological consequences of modern land reform problems and new opporiunities
• The Kirpichevs’ Capercaillie
• Saving game birds in Turkmenistan

NGOS

• A biodiversity atlas of Northern Eurasia
• Exploration, protection and the transformation of minds by the Ryazan laboratory on environmental problems
• The Tver ecological cult listening to our hearts - saving our land

CONSERVATION FINANCE

• Notes from a roundtable on biodiversity conservation in the Former Soviet Union
• Fund to assist fish and wildlife protection

ENDANGERED SPECIES

• Jankowskis bunting and the free economic zone
• The Caspian Seal and the legal status of the Caspian Sea
• "Death’s heads" in Kedrovaya Pad Zapovednikin Russia (and news of other silkworm moths in southern Primorye)
• New botanical rarity from Sarepta

CALENDAR

CONSERVATION CONTACTS