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 the Russian Federation.[1]
Categories
editThe law establishes the following categories of protected areas:
- State nature zapovedniks, including Biosphere reserves (biosphere preserve)[2]
- National Parks
- Nature parks
- State nature zakazniks
- Natural Monuments
- Dendrological parks and botanical gardens
- Health recuperation areas and health resorts
Other areas
editOther areas that are protected in Russia include:
- UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
- city and regional parks.
- Ramsar sites — wetlands of international significance.
- Russian Cultural heritage monuments.
- Historic buildings and gardens — e.g.: Imperial Russian palaces and their landscape parks.
Total Land Area
editOn May 21, 2019, the Moscow Times cited a World Wildlife Fund report 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
editReferences
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- ^ "About Special Protected Nature Areas". The Russian Federation federal law of March 14, 1995.(in Russian)
- ^ Alexey Sobisevich, Valerian Snytko, Vera Savenkova The 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. Retrieved 21 May 2019.
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