Welcome to our website!

Welcome to the website of the Russian Programme of Wetlands International, the only global NGO dedicated to sustaining and restoring wetlands. This is the subsite for Russia of the global website. This site is maintained by our Russia Programme office in Moscow.

This site presents you all our projects, including a clickable map. It also presents all our publications; often free to download.

Feel free to contact us for further information.

 

Onega Bay of the White Sea in northwestern Russia, southwest of Arkhangelsk (V. Semashko)

Our latest publications

Wetlands of International Importance in Russia / Водно-болотные угодья России, имеющие международное значение
 This book contains basic information on the 35 wetland sites designated by the Government of the Russian Federation for the List of Wetlands of International Importance under the Convention on Wetlands (Ramsar, Iran, 1971). Read more...
Peatland biodiversity and climate change
It is shown that peatlands are characterized by specific biological diversity on the genetic, species, ecosystem, and landscape levels. They often present the best preserved areas, habitats, and shelters for biological species... Read more...
Strategic Intent 2011-2020
The Strategic Intent 2011-2020 is the ten year outlook for our organisation and the overarching strategy for the organisation worldwide. It reflects the new challenges for wetland conservation and the increasing relevance of ... Read more...
Annual Review 2010
Our annual review provides a great and global overview of all our achievements, our projects, our publications and other products, our donors and our financial situation.       Read more...

Go to the Library for all our publications.

 

Malkachanskaya tundra (V. Forstmayer)

Our latest news

Workshop on Wetland CEPA planning for the network of wetland centres took place at the Vorobyi Bird Park, Kaluga Region from 14–15 May 2013

 

The workshop was organized by the Wetlands International–Russia Programme in cooperation with the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation under the Project “Establishing a network of educational wetland centres in European Russia to promote wetland conservation through the development and implementation of a СЕРА (Communication, Education, Participation and Awareness) Action Plan” with financial support from the Matra Programme of the Royal Netherlands Embassy in the Russian Federation.

 

New publication: "Wetlands of International Importance in Russia"

 New Publication: Sirin, A. A. (ed.). 2013. Wetlands of International Importance in Russia. Moscow: Wetlands International Russia Programme Publication. 48 pp.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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WMBD event in Arkhangelsk, Russia

Educational seminar to celebrate the World Migratory Bird Day was held on 14 May 2012 in Arkhangelsk (NW Russia) in Museum of Nature and History.

  

On April 20th, 2012 the seminar, “Oil and gas sector and wetlands conservation” took place at the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation.

The seminar was organized in the lead up to the 11th Conference of the Contracting Parties to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, which will be held in July 2012. During the Conference of Parties at least three resolutions will be discussed which propose regulation measures for the conservation of wetlands during subsurface management.

Translation of key Ramsar documents into Russian

The Secretariat is pleased to announce the completion of translation of a set of key Ramsar documents into Russian, in response to requests by, and in consultation with our focal points in the Russian Federation and other Contracting Parties that were members of the Former Soviet Union, and where Russian is still a widely used language.

More information on the Ramsar site