Additional information

Additional information on biodiversity in Russia and its conservation can be found on the following websites:

Special programmes and projects:
Children’s Telecommunication project <www.ecocoop.ru>
BioDat project <www.biodat.ru>
Biological Diversity project <www.zin.ru/BioDiv>

Ministries and agencies of Russia:
Ministry of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation <www.mnr.gov.ru> and Federal Natural Resource Management Supervisory Service (Rosprirodonadzor)
Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation <www.mcx.ru>

Institutes, universities,PNAs, and research organisations
Ugra National Park <parkugra.forest.ru>
Botanical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) <www.binran.spb.ru>;
Zoological Institute of RAS <www.zin.ru>
Institute of Ecology and Evolution, RAS <www.sevin.ru>
Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology, RAS <www.ipae.uran.ru> in Yekaterinburg
Institute of Forest, RAS <forest.akadem.ru> in Krasnoyarsk
Institute of Taxonomy and Ecology of Animals <www.eco.nsc.ru> in Novosibirsk
Main Botanical Garden <www.gbsad.ru>
Institute of Soil and Biology <www.ibss.febras.ru> in Vladivostok
Institute of Marine Biology <www.imb.dvo.ru> in Vladivostok
Institute of Biological Problems of the North <www.neisri.magadan.su/
academnet/ibpn> in Magadan
All-Russian Research Institute of Environmental Protection <sadki.narod.ru>
Rosgiproles Institute (Forest Design Institute) <rosgiproles.ru>
Moscow State University <www.msu.ru>
Saint Petersburg State University <www.spbu.ru>
Moscow Pedagogical State University <www.mpgu.ru>
Moscow Forest State University <www.mgul.ac.ru>

Non-governmental organisations
Biodiversity Conservation Center <www.biodiversity.ru>
WWF Russia <www.wwf.ru>
Greenpeace Russia <www.greenpeace.ru>
Social-Ecological Union <www.seu.ru>
IUCN (The World Conservation Union) Office for Russia and CIS <www.iucn.ru>
International Fund for Animal Welfare <www.ifaw.org/ifaw/general>
Zapovedniks Environmental Education Center <www.wildnet.ru>
Dront Environmental Center <www.dront.ru> in Nizhny Novgorod
Russian Bird Conservation Union <www.rbcu.ru>