Khakassky Reserve sets goals for 2017

Members of Scientific and Technical Council

Members of Scientific and Technical Council

Representatives of the Khakassky Reserve’s departments and specialists from other organizations gathered today at the Khakassky Reserve’s office for a meeting of Scientific and Technical Council. The agenda included setting the main goals for 2017.

At the meeting, heads of the reserve’s departments made reports on key activities that will be undertaken in 2017. This year is announced as the Year of Protected Areas in Russia, which sets the tone for activities of all environmental organizations.

For example, the Khakassky Reserve’s state inspectors will be more often engaged in the reserve’s events as participants. One of such events—the final part of the Best in Profession all-Russian contest for state inspectors—will take place in summer. “At the moment, a program of a contest is being developed and technical preparations are being made,” reported Khakassky Reserve’s deputy director for security Igor Prokudin.

Igor Prokudin, the Khakassky Reserve's deputy director for security

Igor Prokudin, the Khakassky Reserve’s deputy director for security

The reserve’s Research Department has scheduled 40 expeditions with total duration of about 200–210 days in 2017. During the expeditions to the reserve’s areas, the researchers will evaluate the condition of Siberian pine forests, study the dynamics of rare and endangered species populations, and take inventory of algal flora and vascular plants.

Khakassky Reserve will also continue its work on the Biodiversity Monitoring in Specially Protected Areas of Altai-Sayan Ecoregion project sponsored by the RUSAL company, En+ Group and Volnoe Delo Foundation, and supported by the Khakass branch of the Russian Geographical Society.

Viktoria Shurkina, the Khakassky Reserve's deputy director for research

Viktoria Shurkina, the Khakassky Reserve’s deputy director for research

As reported by Viktoria Shurkina—the Khakassky Reserve’s deputy director for research—by the beginning of the year, the reserve’s researchers have submitted 6 applications for grant funding to the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, Russian Geographical Society, World Wide Fund for Nature, and Mikhail Prokhorov Foundation. Besides, the Research Department plans to publish several research works, such as “Field Guide to Cat Species of Siberia: Pallas’s Cat, Eurasian Lynx, Snow Leopard”, “Siberian Ibex” popular science publication, and a series of publications in scientific journals and conference proceedings.

The reserve’s Tourism Department plans to create new ecotrails and expand the existing routes to achieve the total length of 3 kilometers (about 1.9 miles). The reserve will also upgrade the museum exhibits and build new observation points. Tour operators will continue to collaborate with Khakassky Reserve and organize tours to the reserve’s areas. Opening of a new tourist destination in the Oglahty area that will consist of recreated houses of people who lived there years ago—Village of Ancestors museum complex—will take place in the middle of summer.

Members of Scientific and Technical Council

Members of Scientific and Technical Council

For the reserve’s Environmental Education Department the Year of Protected Areas in Russia will begin with opening of upgraded expositions at the Abakan Museum of Nature. As before, Khakassky Reserve will continue to work closely with fellow organizations, engage new participants in conservation activities, and co-organize environmental campaigns and events. At the moment, the reserve’s team makes preparations for the All-Russian Children’s Ecological Forum that will take place in Khakassky Reserve and gather over 300 children from various regions of our country.

Victor Nepomnyaschy, a head of Khakassky Reserve, concluded the meeting of Scientific and Technical Council by thanking all participants for their contributions and wishing everyone a successful year.

For information

Scientific and Technical Council functions as a consultative and coordinating body and includes experts from the Khakassky Reserve’s Research Department, and representatives of other reserve’s departments, research institutions and conservation organizations.

The Scientific and Technical Council deals with the following questions:

  • Regulation and maintenance of the reserve’s protection activities
  • Planning of conservation activities
  • Regulation of limited industrial activities in protected areas
  • Developing plans and programs of environmental education promotion
  • Providing reports on results of reserve’s activities
  • Building connections with state and public conservation organizations
  • Developing relations with foreign organizations
  • Managing the construction processes in the reserve’s areas

All resolutions of the Scientific and Technical Council come info force after approval by the head of Khakassky Reserve who also provides further control over implementation of the resolutions.

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