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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 site. 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.

Our latest projects

Creation of a Wetland Centre at the Sebezhsky National Park as a platform for management and public awareness activities

The project is aimed to increase awareness (locally and regionally) of the ecological and socio-economic functions and values of wetlands, their conservation needs and sustainable management options, through the establishment of a wetland center at the Sebezhsky National Park and the creation and publication of educational and awareness materials.

Development of a programme for transboundary wetland conservation along the border of the Russian Federation with Belarus and Ukraine

Project objective is to stimulate transboundary wetland management and econet development in the border regions of the Russian Federation, Belarus and Ukraine. This project will establish the basis for cooperation, panning and ultimately conservation and management in this transboundary region. It will approach this through a bottom-up networking approach involving key local stakeholders in and around already identified important wetland areas in the region; here the needs and challenges to transboundary cooperation will be explored through practical activities.

Promotion of wetland biodiversity conservation in the Moscow region of the Russian Federation through the development of a Regional Strategy and Action Plan for Wetlands Wise Use

The objective of this project is to support the sustainable use of water resources in the Moscow Region by establishing the technical, legal and social conditions for the implementation of an integrated approach to land-use planning based on wetland wise use.

Study on mires in the Baltic ecoregion

The aim of this project is to provide informational background for conserving biodiversity and freshwater quality in the Baltic ecoregion.

Conservation of peatlands of Central Russia

The aim of this project is to demonstrate implementation of the ‘wise use’ approach for peatland ecosystems in Central and European Russia.

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

New on the website of the Wetlands International Russia Programme

Malkachanskaya tundra (V. Forstmayer)

Our latest publications

Conservation of Transboundary Belarusian-Russian and Russian-Ukrainian Wetlands
 This CD-ROM represents the results of activities carried out under the Wetlands International’s Project on Development of a programme for transboundary wetland conservation along the border of the Russian Federation with Belarus and U... Read more...
A Quick Scan of Peatlands in Central and Eastern Europe
A Quick Scan of Peatlands in Central and Eastern Europe reviews the status, conservation and use of peatlands in the countries participating in the BBIMatra Programme (Belarus, Russian Federation, Ukraine, Moldova, Geo... Read more...
Торговый путь купца Новинского / Merchant Novinsky’s Trade Route
Иллюстрированный буклет содержит описание нового туристического маршрута, который пройдет по территории российского национального парка «Себежский» и белорусского заказника «Освейский», связанных единой озерной системой. This illustrated bo... Read more...
Экскурсии на болото. Материалы в помощь учителям. (Excursions to Wetlands: Manual for Teachers.)
Книга содержит информацию о болотах: их свойствах, животном и растительном мире, необходимых условиях для сохранения их функций. Приводятся примеры экскурсий и даются материалы, которые могут быть использованы как на уроках в школе, так ... Read more...

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