Concept of development of protected areas of the Russian Federation until 2020

Probably 11%+3.2%

"you can't teach people to appreciate and love nature just from books or photos, and therefore people should be able to see everything with their own eyes."



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Again, all for the sake of entertainment...

Most of these protected areas exist only on paper. None of the so-called nature conservationists know what is happening there in real time. They don't want to know. Because if they find out, the problems will have to be solved somehow. As it is, everything is fine - on paper, we are approaching the global level.

I agree that many protected areas exist only on paper and no security regime is observed there. This is especially true for nature reserves and monuments. Moreover, even local authorities (using our example) do not know how many natural monuments are located on the territory they manage and where they are located. We don't have an accurate inventory of natural monuments in our region. Almost no one monitors their condition and does not know whether these protected areas have been preserved or have already been destroyed. And in nature reserves and even some nature reserves (with the knowledge of the director) they cut down the forest. For example, at the southernmost bend of the Amur River, the Churki Nature Reserve is located, protecting unique southern-type ecosystems located on the Bolshye Churki ridge. So, I personally saw how the "black loggers" removed the forest from the protected area. In addition, local residents have organized cannabis plantations there. The situation is better in nature reserves (and not all of them), where the territory is more or less protected. Although there is a shortage of personnel, especially qualified ones – few people go to work on such a meager salary. Therefore, it is necessary to first solve the personnel issue in protected areas by improving, first of all, financial conditions, and then organize new protected areas. Although I am glad that Putin on September 2 this year signed a decree on the organization of the Utrish Nature Reserve south of Anapa, where the only section of dry juniper and pistachio forests of the Mediterranean type is located in Russia. The places are wonderful, I was lucky enough to visit there this year. That's just a strange thing-a large dacha complex is being built there to manage the affairs of the President of the Russian Federation. And so, the construction was not banned, and this site (one of the most valuable!) they were taken out of the reserve. It turns out that in some way the reserve was created to cover up these dirty deeds – they hinted to the public that we will make a reserve here, but don't stop us from building the complex… Unfortunately, there are more questions in the activities of protected areas than answers...

In my opinion, the situation in the Far East with the protection of protected areas is still better than in the European part of Russia. Although maybe I have this opinion based on outdated data. We do not have any system of protection of regional protected areas. In principle, no. That is, in principle, there is no one to control what is being done there. Restrictions on economic activity are very conditional. And there is no one to check them...

In my opinion, the situation in the Far East with the protection of protected areas is still better than in the European part of Russia. Although maybe I have this opinion based on outdated data. We do not have any system of protection of regional protected areas. In principle, no. That is, in principle, there is no one to control what is being done there. Restrictions on economic activity are very conditional. And there is no one to check them...

Every reserve in Russia has a conservation department. Another issue is that they do not work adequately everywhere. And with regional protected areas (nature reserves, natural monuments), our situation is no better than yours – as I have already written, there is no protection at all, as they say, do what you want there and no one will stop you. And there is no state at regional protected areas.

Best of all, we have “protected” nature reserves in the north of the Khabarovsk Territory. Examples are Bureinsky and Dzhugdzhursky nature reserves. They are located in remote mountains, very far from populated areas, in almost uninhabited areas with no transport infrastructure. Therefore, people do not go there and there are practically no violations of the security regime. Sometimes, in 5 years, not a single violator is caught. Such nature reserves are protected by nature itself...

I agree that many protected areas exist only on paper and no security regime is observed there. This is especially true for nature reserves and monuments. Moreover, even local authorities (using our example) do not know how many natural monuments are located on the territory they manage and where they are located.

We have the same problem. For this reason, part of the PP was recently destroyed on paper. As it turned out, there was no one to go around the region, search for and evaluate the condition.

We have specialists who want to monitor natural monuments, but the authorities do not need it. It is necessary to allocate transport, at least, and even then they do not want to do this. The situation is better in the Jewish Autonomous Region, where they try to monitor natural monuments, but enthusiastic scientists do this on their own, hardly finding opportunities for this. And this year we conducted such a “raid”, having visited several settlements of the Jewish Autonomous Region. It turned out that in the best condition are those PP, which are located in the border zone, behind the “thorn”. Locals are not allowed in there, so there is no household service. there is no activity, especially fires and fires. So border guards make a significant contribution to the protection of natural monuments, for this they are respected.

This post was edited by Ekos-02.11.2010 14: 06

With the summer fires in the European part of Russia, the situation with protected areas, nature reserves and nature reserves naturally only worsened...

In our region, for example, the most interesting protected area - "Nikonovsky Bor" located on the right root bank of the Sura River (upper reaches) - was severely damaged by fire. What kind of insects we found there, you will get tired of listing... And in July, someone-perhaps even from a passing passenger train-threw an un-extinguished cigarette and a fire broke out in the lowland part of the forest. They began to extinguish, since there are large settlements nearby - the passenger train is moving at speed and the flame is thrown across the railway by an air stream-the upper part of the forest also begins to burn!? Recently, specialists in botany, zoology and nature reserve workers were invited to the fire. The question was what to do with the still standing burnt forest!? It falls from the wind and most importantly next summer there will trample all sorts of bark beetles and barbels! They decided to cut down and sold everything on the vine at a cheap price...The unique shrub and feather grass steppe (what butterflies used to fly there, just imagine-apollonians, ausonians, terzamons, etc.) that was located on the wasteland of the island disappeared. Nikonovo, and only 4 out of 20 houses remain...

In the reserve, too, the forest burned well - but no one will allow cutting "dead wood" there, it is a protected area. With horror, I think that it will start there in the summer... Specially reread Sakharov's book (1947) "Harmful insects of the Lower Volga region, how in the 30s of the last century in our Penza pine forests they fought against foci of bark beetles - they made so - called "traps" - they felled healthy trees and let the bark beetles "infect" the forest floor and drove people to strip the bark from fallen trees. And so on several times...

There are a lot of examples of carelessness, so recently some of our protected areas were removed from those by "de facto" - when they practically ceased to exist in nature. An example? Please - "Salovsky bor" (left bank of the Sura river just upstream from the village). Nikonovo). A new section of the federal road M-5 "Ural" was laid through the forest - the road cut the forest in half like a "knife butter". The ground water level has fallen, blueberries have disappeared, and with them the local population of the rare boreal peat pigeon (P. optilete). Together with the broom edge of the forest, the Boisduval pigeon disappeared... etc. etc. You can't trample on progress - only insects disappear with it...

The situation with massive and regular fires in Russia is a "litmus test" for assessing the real attitude of the authorities to nature protection.
They complain about the abnormal heat. However, forests that have not burned for 50-70 years are burning out. Why didn't they burn before? Because, at the top, I don't care about them... protecting the forests will not bring profit, and even more so any kickbacks.
In the 21st century, in a "democratic" state, forests cannot burn on such a large scale!
Toli will still be there.

Here are some photos of Penza protected areas. They were created mainly by botanists - but we entomologists also found the most interesting insects in these places:
1). Meadow steppe in the Big Elan gully, May.
2). Steppe foreheads "Bolshaya Endova", August (by the way, one of the populations of golubyanka P. elena - the base of the slopes-lives here).
3). Windbreaker in the burned-out protected area "Nikonovsky Bor", August (Polumordvinov and Sergey Shibaev).
4). Feather grass steppe "Big Elan", May.
5). Shuro-Siran natural area (Belaya Gora), July (deer beetles on komla).
6). Remnants of the Nikolsky forest near the protected area "Nikolskoye Boloto", July. School tent ecological camp "Visiting nature". How beautiful it is there on a starry night...

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I recently talked to the reserve staff - they have an unsolvable dilemma... As you remember, Putin promised and fulfilled the promise! Each reserve offers 5 million rubles for the creation of eco-routes!? Several problems immediately arose - nothing can be cut down or laid in the reserve... Payment for this case is provided for scanty, so who will work hard for nothing now? And the temptation is great... start everything... I wonder how all this will end??

According to the mind - so laying a tourist trail along the inner side of the fence or just the border (often there is such a path even without ecotourism), without introducing it deep into the territory, and let both the authorities and tourists choke... We went on this side of the fence, it doesn't matter, if they are similar on the other side. In addition, "ecomar route" someone has to control, one-time money is really not enough here. You also need to pay salaries to employees who will beat their feet on these routes, accompanying groups, so that people on the sides do not swindle. Over at the PTZ, the eco-routes that used to exist were canceled long ago in the settled zone, only the zubryatnik is shown over the fence, and the ticket price is considerable.

And then, the nature reserve is different from the nature reserve. It's one thing - the PTZ, somewhere 7x7 km, and the steppe site is generally so small that it won't take long to trample it down, but the Caucasian Nature Reserve is another thing, there are routes there from time immemorial and permits are issued, even for individual hikes, and without any Putin's promises. People walk from the direction of Lago Naki, and from the direction of the Clearing, and you never know where. True, there are enough thug latifundia on the territory, and a lot of other anti-Western things.

In my opinion, it will be a cross between the Panama Canal and the fight against traffic jams.

I read it at the beginning of the topic:

He was particularly moved by his words:"it is impossible to teach people to appreciate and love nature only from books or photographs, and therefore people should be able to see everything with their own eyes."

Yes, exactly. You can love nature only by communicating with it and seeing its best sights and objects. And I like the idea of ecotourism in nature reserves , at least in their buffer zone. The quality of ecological tours will improve: people will see places of pristine nature, and accordingly the number of ecotourists will increase ("quality product - more demand"). And the more ecotourists, the fewer "ecobandits", the better the knowledge of society about nature; plus, nature reserves will earn additional money for development and transition to self-sufficiency.
Nature conservation, education, not "reserves for scientists". Tours in buffer zones-balance of "didactics and protection"... I don't see any serious flaws in the idea. There are more pluses!

what stupidity... don't you see what that means in reality? Take off your rose-colored glasses! or do you live in Europe?
Here, take a look at what's being prepared for us... with a touching concern for nature.
http://democrator.ru/problem/3649

The above to me? I only commented on one phrase of Penzyak and the topic of ecotourism development. We need to develop it! And, by the way, it has been developing for a long time - Laovsky Reserve, Kedrovaya Pad, has been conducting eco-tours for 10 years... By the way, there are no fewer tigers and other protected objects there, on the contrary.
Speaking about inconsistencies in other provisions of the project , we should criticize and discuss them... This is just a project. As a result of the discussion, the optimal solution will be found. And it will not be worse for nature than it is. And it is necessary to develop ecotourism (see my previous passage).

It turns out interesting-I talked to several people who work or worked in nature reserves (different - the former USSR and Russia), and so, the absolute majority of them speak out against laying "ecological trails"on the territory of nature reserves or along their borders!?? Argumentation - " We wanted the best - it turned out as always." That is, they are directly afraid that tourists will harm nature more than they will contribute to its protection... Now all nature reserves (especially in the European part of Russia) are concerned with a more urgent problem - the purchase of fire-fighting equipment for the upcoming summer. Personally, I am "FOR" the competent laying of ecological trails through protected areas, and if not only tourists but also URBAN schoolchildren are led along them, then at least something may change in the future...

There and they have disputes... He himself worked in the Voronezh Nature Reserve. Views on ecotourism were often contradictory. At the same time, in Soviet times, general hunts were held. Now there are excursions to the beaver farm, to the living area, but no one wants to take you to the forest. Everyone is busy with their scientific work and" for nothing " they are not in a hurry to sacrifice time. Employees should be paid for conducting excursions! Or get a full-time tour guide. Originally received in the Lazovsky Nature Reserve. Recreation on sea beaches in the buffer zone is allowed. Lots of people... A little to the side - full house: "Reserve. Passage and passage are prohibited. Fine..." No one is there, the seats are luxury, so everyone comes in. They grow up as if from under the ground huntsmen and fine them. Good income. And they don't care about ecotourism!..

On Sunday I was in one of the districts of the region. Well, over a glass of tea with young hunters and fishermen, we talked about nature and the animals that inhabit it.
Awful. Soon in the Red Book of regions it will be possible to enter most of the animal world that lives (partly ALREADY lived) on its territory. Complete poaching-knock out everything that moves. Now in the fields and forests of the Penza region (and the Middle Volga region as a whole), except for mouse and fox tracks, you will not see anything!!? Marriages are brought on the trailer "Buran" and on "safari". They beat everything that is possible and impossible. They don't care if this territory is protected or not (I wonder what's going on in the reserve). In the summer, the fields with beet plantings were poisoned with herbicides - so many birds, bees, etc. died. And it's modern (!!?) technologies of France and England (co-tenants of crops). In the rivers, fish are caught by everyone who is not lazy and with anything-just to grab, and after them let the Chinese catch frogs... Complete darkness and indifference. I told the chief (a field zoologist and hunter), he smiled wryly and said through his teeth-these are the fruits of modern "Rational Nature Management"...

This post was edited by Penzyak - 27.01.2011 10: 15

In half of the cases, the interests of the prosecutor's office as well as people's deputies of the capital are viewed for the owners of land plots in the forest.

Oh my God!!! What a nightmare is going on!!! We need to catch everything that's left faster...and then soon there will be nothing to catch...

cockroaches will remain

Well, some insects are quite adapted/adapted to co-existence with humans in its urban and agro-cenoses. But I'm sure you won't be interested in Banales Vulgaris...

cockroaches will remain

Judging by the posts in the topic-mostly in the heads...

In our country, it is forbidden to cut down the forest at all, since it remains less than 7% of the country's territory. But if you look at Google Ads, you can see that we have almost no forests left, and those that are in the "patches" are widespread deforestation. Moreover, they are most often responsible for the foresters themselves, who are responsible for these areas of the forest.
Well, they will declare the zones reserved, and this will be of little use. But nevertheless it is a good cause, at least it will give you some protection.
In general, we need to declare every untilled area a protected area, and anyone who touches or decides to set fire to it, chop off their fingers for prevention. And then there are craftsmen-who will plant corn in the forest on a clearing that will not rise, who will decide to set fire to a dry area of virgin steppe, who walks their cows and sheep in protected areas every day. And you can't put guards to watch. Unless a couple of reserves are still good for something and the foresters there are harsh - they immediately calculate and expel, but there are very few such places, so we lose insect populations faster than entomologists have time to get there. It's an old song about a dacha plot in the nogella population, but they asked me to make a micro-order, but they ignored everyone.
What is most strange is that in the CIS, if they do something , it's only for show and cover, and the government doesn't care when it comes to real actions.

In deforestation is not to blame foresters they switchmen and the very corruption. To allow logging, you need to collect 3-4 signatures and bend around high offices, including in ecology.

Previously, at least in the water protection zone of rivers and large reservoirs, it was forbidden to cut wood! Now we have commissioned Ikea to cut down the floodplain forests of the Sura River near the village of Lunino. Then, after drying and sawing, they are loaded into wagons and sent to Rostov for wood chips. Here are my photos from their warehouse - where I was looking for barbels on occasion. The scale is impressive...

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And if we take into account that over the past century the volume of the Sura River flow fell by 2 times and as a result of chemical pollution in the 1970s, the Sura sterlet, the most famous in Russia, almost completely disappeared - what went to the royal table ! Then with such a large scale of deforestation in the floodplain - the river level will fall even more...

In deforestation is not to blame foresters they switchmen and the very corruption. To allow logging, you need to collect 3-4 signatures and bend around high offices, including in ecology.

and pay everywhere with wrappers

In the summer, I was in an interesting place near the village of Narovchaty (Kuprin's birthplace) and collected insects with students along the right root bank of the Moksha River (see photo). So I was struck by the huge size of the chalk pit - I asked the locals and was blown away, it turned out that there was a whole chalk mountain here at one time!! Which in Soviet times for the needs of agriculture was dug up and taken to agricultural fields... Interesting and the fact that it did not have time to examine the botanists and entomologists-how???
A on R. In the Penza region, the Chinese are currently building a cement plant - the unique cretaceous rocks with flora and entomofauna will probably disappear here as well... And protected areas won't help...

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funny... As the dispute arose, what is primary and what is secondary-a rare insect or the biotope in which it lives !??

In early May, I surveyed one of the most interesting protected areas in the south-east of the region-the Shuro-Siran tract. Spring this year was very late and the weather was almost not happy with the sun. But, to my delight, we managed to find a nest of a new ant species for our region - the steppe runner!

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Awesome! I found two more spots in the Penza region where steppe runner ants live! And according to the article (Zryanin, Zryanina, 2007), only 4 points were known in the Middle Volga region!

In an online second-hand book store Alib.ru there is a very interesting book on our topic on sale (maybe there is an electronic version of it or a cheap copy???):

Specially protected natural territories of Russia: current state and prospects of development. Compiled by V. G. Krever, M. S. Stishov, and I. A. Onufrenya, Moscow, WWF Russia 2009, 455 p. + 1 color map-incl. Hard (glossy) binding, enlarged format. The price is 3000 rubles
(BS-Orion).
The book is prepared in accordance with the obligations of the Russian Federation to implement the Program of Work on Specially Protected Natural Areas of the Convention on Biological Diversity and is the first analytical review in Russia of the representativeness of the federal protected areas system and its role in the conservation of rare and especially valuable species of animals and plants. The book deals with the classification of protected areas in Russia, optimization of their categories and forms of management. Based on the analysis of the representativeness and completeness of the system of protected areas in Russia, the ways of its further development are proposed. Separate chapters of the book are devoted to the analysis of the current state and prospects for the development of the Russian marine protected areas system. Circulation of 1500 copies.
Condition: Perfect

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Awesome! I found two more spots in the Penza region where steppe runner ants live! And according to the article (Zryanin, Zryanina, 2007), only 4 points were known in the Middle Volga region!

Who is the "steppe runner"? We have yellow tailwings flying in the area over there and mottled brown wings-why be surprised...

Stas see the top post from Bikmurzino. And your expert on ants Zryanin said that for the Penza region, pharaoh ants (runners) are exotic!!!
Yes, they didn't arrive! Their females and males do not fly but run during mating games... so these are local relics. The main range is very far to the south...

This post was edited by Penzyak - 11.08.2011 18: 27

We were very pleased with this year's trips to the" lost corners " of the Penza region!
We managed to visit and find new places where not only an entomologist, but also a BOTANIST did not set foot before us!??
It turned out that interesting places for an entomologist (preserved biotopes) should first of all be rich in floristics - so for botanists we found them as NEW (Adonis volzhsky...) and very rare plants (Illyrian buttercup, large-flowered onosma...) which have not been found in our area for 60-170 years!! First of all, these places should be protected and given the status of protected areas! You will ask me what exactly you found interesting from insects, please: Mantispa sp., Isophya sp., steppe runner (Cataglyphis aenescens) and much more...

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