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Designing and construction of Eastern Siberia-Pacific Ocean pipeline will be taken under control in Amurskaya province

Amurskii province administration has supported the initiative of WWF and other grassroots to control the process of documents preparation to be used in the second stage of the pipeline construction...

WWF invites all interested parties to take part in analyzing documentation on Eastern Siberia-Pacific Ocean pipeline construction

TRANSNEFT` has started preliminary public discussions on the second stage of the pipeline construction. On May 16, public information center was open in Vladivostok...

How to organize wildlife protection when authorities are being transferred from federal to regional level – this question was discussed during a seminar organized with WWF support...

At the meeting in Naryan-Mar, Nenets Autonomous Region, experts discussed environmental risks related to intensified oil fields development...

On May 15 Pogranichny District court of Primorye announced a verdict for smuggling of two big seizures of Wild ginseng (Panax ginseng). 4 years of imprisonment is the punishment given to the criminal group leader...

Korean pine came back in the Reineke island forests

WWF together with salsa club “Barrio Latino” planted 1000 seedlings of Korean pine on the Reineke island during May holidays...

Vaccination of wild boars finished in Primorye

From March till May 2008, in Primorskii province wild boars vaccination against hog plug was being held with support from WWF. These measures are aimed to conserve wild ungulates and thus help the Amur tiger to sustain...

WWF will finance the reparation of old visit-center, the construction of three cognitive grounds and the purchase of modern equipment for ecological education activities..

On May 5, WWF announced beginning of a two-year TACIS program aimed at supporting the Nanai and Udege tribes living in Krasnyi Yar in the Russian Far East...

The revision of hunting policy is necessary for reducing poaching in the Altai-Sayans

Project “Local perspectives on hunting and poaching” finished in the Altai-Sayan Ecoregion. Preliminary findings allowed to make some recommendations for conservation activities optimization..

The director of the OXFAM-Russia Nicolas Colloff and the expert of the Small Business Fund (Russia) Viktor Glushkov visited Republic of Tuva under joint project with WWF Russia..

Logging in the Zov Tigra National Park

WWF states that loggers of Chuguevskii district in “saying their farewell” to the Zov Tigra national park have cut in its territory ever biggest amount of timber leaving “ugly scars” that will stay unhealed for decades...

Russian-Mongolian commission on environment protection has supported the idea of creation transboundary reserve Istoki Amura...

Zov Tigra got Presents from Local Kids

17 school environmental groups acting in Chuguevskii district of Primorye congratulated the Zov Tigra national park with its first birthday and participated in the contest on the park’s logo...

WWF: 10 years in the Altai-Sayans!

On 28th April 1998 first WWF Russia project in the Altai-Sayan Ecoregion started. For 10 years of work more than $2,5 millions were invested in the nature conservation of this beautiful place of Earth!..

On April 26, in Chuguevka village which is in the north of Primorye an unusual event took place – the birthday of the Zov Tigra national park declared last year...

Krai-wide Environmental Conference opened in Vladivostok

“From Earth Day to Earth Epoch” – such is the name for the krai-wide conference of research papers and conservation projects – will be held in Vladivostok from April 24-25 with WWF’s support...

The Amur branch of WWF-Russia is awaiting proposals from journalists of the Far East, Kamchatka and Transbaikalia to participate in the second round of the Far Eastern Journalism Contest Living Taiga...

Investigation of tiger and leopard in Primorye goes on

Precisely a year ago WWF informed the public about the killing of a young female leopard in the Barsovyi wildlife refuge. Six months earlier, in Khasanskii district a tiger was killed by poachers. Have the guilty persons..

The argali population monitoring is under way in the Altai-Sayans

Two inspectors of the “Ubsunurskaya lowland” reserve (Republic of Tyva) sallied out to the near-border Uvs aimaq of Mongolia to take part in the altaian wild sheep population monitoring..

How to protect the livestock from the snow leopard attacks?

This and the other questions were discussed during the trip of Chaizu Kyrgys, the Altai-Sayan project leader, and the “Ubsunurskaya lowland” reserve staff to the far Mongun-Taiga district (kozuun) of Tyva Republic..

The Altaiski State Nature Reserve will get 4 more visit-centers by November 2008!

WWF Russia will finance the construction of the visit-center in Artybash village and three visit-points within the Teletskoe Lake basin..

Arctic Suffers From Illegal Fishing

New WWF Report highlights the negative effects of poaching and overall IUU fishing on the strategically important Cod stocks in the Barents Sea and Pollock in the Sea of Okhotsk and Bering Sea...

Eight Far Eastern leopards have left their portraits during camera-trap census this year done by WWF-Russia and Institute for Sustainable Use of Nature Resources near Kedrovaya Pad` nature reserve...

Kids from Japan and Russia Discover Each Other

Photo-project “Wonder Eyes” done in Primorye in cooperation with WWF-Russia and WWF-Japan will tell Japanese kids about their Russian age mates living side by side with the Far Eastern leopard...

What made Steller Sea Lions move away from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky private pier?

For almost 30 years threatened Steller Sea Lions were coming back to the city pier, arriving from the Kuriles and the Commander Islands, from coasts of Magadan and Alaska. The reasons they left it now stay with people...

Public got another chance to defend Gray Whales

Exxon Neftegaz Ltd. Company – Sakhalin-I Project operator – extended public discussions on pipeline construction across the Piltun Bay...

This spring waterfowl hunting could be regarded as a trial period for the Primorskii province Department on Hunting Supervision which is the newly formed structure responsible for order in hunting grounds...

WWF supports ecotourism development in Chupa settlement

Remote North-Karelian rural community got another chance to develop better life...

Drift-net marine salmon fishing in the form it exists now in Russia shall be completely banned

WWF supports this opinion by the Chairman of Kamchatka State Duma Fisheries Committee Mr. R.G. Granatov, as such drift-net salmon fishing leads to mortality of seabirds and marine mammals...