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Three Decades of Nature Conservation Cooperation between Finland and Russia

Authorities, scientific institutions and other actors in Finland and Russia have cooperated within nature conservation for already 30 years. The various forms of this cooperation are presented in the recently published booklet "Finnish-Russian Nature Conservation Cooperation". The geographical area covered by this cooperation has extended and at the moment Finland has been involved in the process of establishing 10 new nature reserves in addition to all ready established 12 ones.

Biological Diversity in Karelia: Formation, Biological Communities and Species

The Karelian Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) has been implementing the Biological Diversity Inventory and Study Project in the Republic of Karelia since 1997 within the Finnish-Russian Development Programme on Sustainable Forest Management and Conservation of Biological Diversity in Northwest Russia. Approximately 75 scientists representing more than 20 different specialities from the Forest Institute, the Institutes of Biology, Geology and Aquatic Problems of the North take part in this project. The research activities are co-ordinated by the Forest Institute (by the Research Managers V.I. Krutov, Doctor of Biological Science, and A.N. Gromtsev, Doctor of Agricultural Science). The project is being financed by the Finnish Ministry of the Environment.

Biodiversity and conservation of boreal nature – Proceedings of the 10-year anniversary symposium of the Nature Reserve Friendship

The Red Data Book of the Murmask Region

The Red Data Book project of the Murmansk Region was initiated by the Murmansk Region Environmental Committee in 1997. Two brief publications had already been published earlier: “Rare and Conservation-Dependent Animals and Plants of the Murmansk Region” was published in 1979, and the second edition of this book came out in 1990 with a slightly altered name: “Rare and Conservation-Dependent Plants and Animals of the Murmansk Region”. These books were compiled under the leadership of the Murmansk Regional Council of the All-Russian Nature Conservation Society, and all scientific organisations of the region also took part in the project. Thanks to the enthusiasm of the most active scientists and specialists taking part in this project, this rather complicated task could be fulfilled.

New Book about Moss Flora of Central European Russia Published

Internet-service for Russian Forestry
www.idanmetsatieto.info

Information about Russian forest sector and wood trade can be obtained concentratedly from the internet-service ”www.idanmetsatieto.info”. Service has been developed in the project “Expertise in Russian Forestry” coordinated by the Joensuu Research Centre of the Finnish Forest Research Institute.

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