Protected areas of Russia
Protected areas of Russia,(official Russian title:Russian:Особо охраняемые природные территории,literally "Specially Protected Natural Areas" ), is governed by the corresponding 1995 law of theRussian Federation.[1]
Categories[edit]
The law establishes the following categories ofprotected areas:
- State naturezapovedniks,includingBiosphere reserves(biosphere zapovedniks)[2]
- National Parks
- Nature parks
- State naturezakazniks
- Natural Monuments
- Dendrologicalparks andbotanical gardens
- Health recuperation areas andhealth resorts
Other areas[edit]
Other areas that are protected in Russia include:
- UNESCOWorld Heritage Sites.
- city and regional parks.
- Ramsar sites—wetlandsof international significance.
- Russian Cultural heritage monuments.
- Historic buildings and gardens —e.g.: Imperial Russian palaces and their landscape parks.
Total Land Area[edit]
On May 21, 2019, theMoscow Timescited aWorld Wildlife Fundreport indicating that Russia now ranks first in the world for its amount of protected natural areas[3]with 63.3 million hectares of specially protected natural areas. However, the article did not contain a link to WWF's report and it may be based on previously gathered data.
See also[edit]
- List of national parks of Russia
- List of zapovedniks of Russia
- Territory of Traditional Natural Resource Use
References[edit]
- ^"About Special Protected Nature Areas".The Russian Federation federal law of March 14, 1995.(in Russian)
- ^Alexey Sobisevich, Valerian Snytko, Vera SavenkovaThe role of biosphere reserves in the enviromental [sic] protection at the Soviet Union// Prossedings of International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference (Pre-print)
- ^"Russia Has Most Protected Natural Areas in the World, WWF Says".The Moscow Times.Retrieved21 May2019.
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