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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 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.
| Establishing a network of educational wetland centres in European Russia |
Wetlands, in particular peatlands, being a characteristic feature of Russian landscapes, provide real and essential benefits to a wide range of interest groups. However, it is evident that the high biodiversity and socio-economic values of wetlands have not been adequately communicated to decision-makers, users and the public at large. | | Restoring peatlands in Russia | Many peatlands in Russia were drained for agriculture, forestry and peat mining in the past and then left abandoned. Now they are subject to wind and water erosion, major fires and cause large amounts of carbon dioxide emissions. Given the significant economic, environmental and social impacts of these degraded peatlands, Wetlands International has recently initiated the restoration project of Russia's degraded peatlands. | | Arctic wetlands: reducing the impact of the oil and gas sector | The nature in the Arctic region is fragile, recovery is slow. The impact of just a new road in the permafrost marshes may impact a much wider area, for decades. Wetlands International aims to minimise the impacts of the oil and gas sector on the onshore and coastal Arctic wetlands by working with Shell on guidelines. | | Wetland Centre at the Sebezhsky National Park | The project was 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. | | 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 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. |
Onega Bay of the White Sea in northwestern Russia, southwest of Arkhangelsk (V. Semashko)
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.
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State of World's Waterbirds 2010
This booklet summarises what is known about the status of waterbird populations in different parts of the world. It shows how numbers and population trends compare from region to region, and how they changed between the 1970s and the 2000s. Read more...
Go to the Library for all our publications.
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Malkachanskaya tundra (V. Forstmayer)
| 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 | | Russia’s fires: worsened by peatland drainage | |
August 4, 2010. The disastrous forest fires that are currently raging in Russia have led to significant fires in the drained and degraded peatlands. These occur close to Moscow and densely populated areas in Central European Russia. They are causing huge air pollution problems as well as direct risks for the people in the region.
| | The Sebezhsky Wetland Centre opened on 25 May 2010 |
This visitor and education centre was developed with the financial support of the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Moscow through the project on Creation of a Wetland Centre at the Sebezhsky National Park as a platform for management and public awareness activities. | | International workshop on "A programme for transboundary wetland conservation along the border area between the Russian Federation, Belarus and Ukraine" was held in Moscow, on 20 April 2010 | |
The workshop was organized by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation and the Wetlands International–Russia Programme.The workshop was prepared and held with the financial support of the Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality of the Netherlands through the BBI Matra Project on Development of a programme for transboundary wetland conservation along the border of the Russian Federation with Belarus and Ukraine.
| | Peatlands as objects in education, awareness, environment tourism | On the 24-26 of august in Central Forest Biosphere Nature reserve the seminar “Peatlands as objects in education, awareness, environment tourism” took place. It was organized by the reserve itself and International bureau for conservation of wetlands - Wetlands International in the network of the project “Development and introduction of complex management approaches and protection of Russian peatlands” of the program BBI MATRA of Ministry of nature, agriculture and quality of food supplies in Netherlands (LNV).
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