Red Data Book of Nature of the Leningrad Region

Volume 3 of the Red Data Book of the Leningrad region – Animals, St. Petersburg, 2002, 480 pages, has been published in October 2002. This is the last volume of the bilingual edition with parallel texts in Russian and English. Volume 3 comprises a list of 602 vertebrates and invertebrates that require protection. Detailed description, including drawings, distribution maps, appearance, ecological characteristics, limiting factors and recommended conservation measures, is given for 298 species.


Volume 1 – Protected Areas, St. Petersburg, 1999, 400 pages, contains data on 56 nature protected areas established in the Leningrad region and in Saint-Petersburg, as well as on 60 projected and proposed nature protected areas. The descriptions of every protected area include landscape maps, nature sites, reference to the relevant Nature Protection Acts and decisions taken by the authorities. Also included in Vol. 1 is a brief outline of thirty geological sites proposed for conservation.

Volume 2 – Plants and Fungi, St. Petersburg, 2000, 672 pages, contains data of 528 plants and fungi that require protection. The descriptions of every species include pictures, maps, appearance, environmental characteristics, limiting factors and recommended protection measures.

Red Data Book of Nature of the Leningrad Region is a normative document, because the statute based on it is approved by the Leningrad Region Government. Red Data Book is an important tool for conservation of biological diversity and support of ecological development.
The book is also designed to serve biologists, ecologists, college teachers and youth environmentalist clubs, nature protection experts, university students, all friends of Nature.

The book has been prepared and printed with the financial support from the Ecological Fund of the Leningrad Region and the Finnish Ministry of the Environment.

Editor-in-Chief : Professor Georgy Noskov, Institute of Biology, University of Saint-Petersburg, email: gnoskov@area.usr.pu.ru

Please send your book orders to the following bookstores,
in Finland:
* Akateeminen kirjakauppa, Keskuskatu 1- Pohjoisesplanadi 39, FIN-00100 Helsinki, www.akateeminen.com

in Russia:
* St. Petersburg Dom Knigi, 191186 St. Petersburg, Nevskij prospect, d. 28
* Akadem Kniga, 191104 St. Petersburg, Liteinij prospekt, 57
* St. Petersburg State University, "Knizhnyi salon", 199034 St. Petersburg, Universitetskaya nab. 11

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