BIODIVERSITY PROTECTION:

• environmental pollution monitoring (by the Station of integrated background

monitoring)

• the study of climate change

and the responses of the biota

Biodiversity in the BR: Vascular plants – 1039, Lichens – 163, Mosses – 134, Insects – 6000, Fishes – 39, Amphibious – 9, Reptiles – 7, Birds – 217, Mammals - 60

SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH ACTIVITIES:

ECOLOGICAL EDUCATION:

STUDENT AND VOLUNTEER PROGRAMS:

In 1923 the reserve was organized as the Beaver Zapovednik. From this time and up to now it protects the Usmansky pine forest - the island wood in forest-steppe zone of the European Russia. For many years this reserve was the leading USSR organization for European beaver and deer protection and restoration their numbers in natural habitats in Europe and Asia

In 1985 it was Included into the World network of biosphere reserves

• prevention and suppression of forest fires • fight against poaching • patrolling the area to detect and prevent violations

• winter feeding of wild animals

• the regulation of

number of animals

•monitoring of biodiversity and

dynamics of natural

communities

• investigation of rare species

core area – 17039 ha

buffer zone – 14014 ha

transition zone – 30912 ha

• veterinary monitoring

• the study of anthropogenic

impacts on the natural

environment

Scientific contacts

with the Academy of

Sciences of Moldova,

Research Institutes

of Ukraine and

Mongolia

INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION:

•working out of

recommendations for the

protection and management

of territory

ECOLOGICAL TOURISM •ecological lessons

and excursions in

the BR Nature

Museum, Visit

center, Beaver

farm, ecological

camps for school

children

• ecological

tourism

project was

started in 2011

WORKING WITH THE MASS MEDIA:

•publications on

environmental

protection

Biosphere Reserve