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Protected areas
Protected areas or conservation areas are locations which receive protection because of their recognized natural, ecological or cultural values. There are several kinds of protected areas, which vary by level of protection depending on the enabling laws of each country or the regulations of the international organisations involved. The term "protected area" also includes Marine Protected Areas, the boundaries of which will include some area of ocean, and Transboundary Protected Areas that overlap multiple countries which remove the borders inside the area for conservation and economic purposes.
Protected areas cover 11,7% of the Amur Ecoregion territory: 7,3 million hectares of federal PAs and 7,6 million hectares of provincial PAs including 17 strictly protected areas, 7 national parks, 8 federal and 78 provincial wildlife refuges, 6 nature parks, 6 ecological corridors, and 2 wetlands. Sikhote-Alin Nature Reserve is the UNESCO World Heritage site. Five more nature reserves are UNESCO biosphere reserves: Sokhondinsky NR, Far Eastern Marine NR, Dauria NR, Kedrovaya Pad NR and Khankaisky Nature Reserve. Six territories are included in the list of the Wetlands of International Importance (Ramsar sites): Khanka Lake, Torey Lakes, Khingan-Arkharinskaya Lowland, Zeya-Bureya Plain, Bolon Lake and Udyl Lake.
Protected areas cover 11,7% of the Amur Ecoregion territory: 7,3 million hectares of federal PAs and 7,6 million hectares of provincial PAs including 17 strictly protected areas, 7 national parks, 8 federal and 78 provincial wildlife refuges, 6 nature parks, 6 ecological corridors, and 2 wetlands. Sikhote-Alin Nature Reserve is the UNESCO World Heritage site. Five more nature reserves are UNESCO biosphere reserves: Sokhondinsky NR, Far Eastern Marine NR, Dauria NR, Kedrovaya Pad NR and Khankaisky Nature Reserve. Six territories are included in the list of the Wetlands of International Importance (Ramsar sites): Khanka Lake, Torey Lakes, Khingan-Arkharinskaya Lowland, Zeya-Bureya Plain, Bolon Lake and Udyl Lake.
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1 Amur Green Belt – the network of protected areas in the Amur River Basin 16 December 2016 | 622 Shows
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- Yuri Darman, Eugene Simonov
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2 Implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity in the Russian Federation 27 January 2017 | 527 Shows
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- Programme of work on protected areas, 2010
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3 National protected areas of the Russian Federation: GAP analysis and perspective framework 27 January 2017 | 520 Shows
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- Vladimir Krever, Mikhail Stishov, Irina Onufrenya, 2009
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- Edited by A.S. Shestakov, 2003
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- Amur WWF
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- WWF Mongolia, 2021
Buir Lake and its surrounding wetlands was officially listed as the Ramsar site on March 22, 2004 as they met the first six out of nine criteria for designation and inclusion of areas in the Ramsar Convention List.
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- WWF Mongolia, 2021
The wet Daurian steppe and wetlands comprised of lakes, ponds, rivers, and streams are specific with that they provide the important stopover sites to numerous species of birds migrating from South East Asia to Arctic Ocean and the nesting grounds to numerous species of the waterbirds and shorebirds from tropical countries on their migration flyways. Thus, the wetlands are important not only nationwide but also regionwide and worldwide.
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- WWF Mongolia, 2021
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- WWF Mongolia, 2021
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The booklet describes the main traits of biological diversity and socio-economic conditions of Southwest Primorye as a part of internationally supported regional development project: TREDA (Tumen River Economic Development Area). The project covers northeast Asia’s most diverse biological, geographical, social, economic and national conditions. Protection of the environment of this portion of Northeast Asia can be achieved only with a shift to sustainable regional development that accounts for the interests of the countries involved.
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The booklet was published specially for the 5th World Park Congress in Durban, South Africa, and illustrate work done by WWF to introduce new concept of the protected areas system, methodology to plan econets based on the analysis of satellite image and concrete case studies in several Global 200 ecoregions in Russia and Central Asia. For specialists.
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12 Methodology of assessment of conservation effectiveness of protected areas and their regional systems 30 January 2023 | 28 Shows
The proposed methodology is aimed at the evaluation of conservation effectiveness of protected areas (PAs), their individual conservation
functions, and entire regional PA systems, including planned ones, with the purpose of identifying the need, opportunities, and priority
areas for the optimization of PAs, their regional systems, and management approaches. Conservation effectiveness is viewed as the degree to what a PA of a regional PA system is successful in fulfilling its conservation objectives arising from its natural peculiarities. Conservation effectiveness depends not only on the management of individual PAs and their systems, but on all other circumstances affecting PAs – their layout, geographic location, surroundings etc.