"Russia's Protected Areas": lecture by
Elena Nikolaeva, Vice Chair for North Eurasia,
World Commission on Protected Areas (IUCN)
Elena Nikolaeva, Kamchatka, Russia, 7/21/2012
Monday, April 4th, 2016, 12:00 PM — 1:15 PM
Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
Bowers Auditorium, Sage Hall, 205 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT
Russia in 1916-17 began creation of what has become the world's largest system of strictly protected nature reserves (listed as category Ia by IUCN, the International Union for Conservation of Nature)--more tightly protected than America's national wilderness system (category Ib, IUCN) or national parks (category II).
Elena Nikolaeva has worked in Russia's protected area system as a field researcher and environmental educator, and she serves as Vice Chair for North Eurasia in IUCN's World Commission on Protected Areas. She also participated with Russia's delegation at the World Parks Congress in 2014 in Australia, where Russia committed to expand its protected area network by more than 20%, a planned increase of 32 million acres. (52 million acres is the total size of America's 59 national parks.)
Elena will discuss current issues and opportunities for Russia's protected areas, including its unparalleled system of 103 nature reserves (zapovedniki) and their planned expansion.
After the talk, attendees are invited to continue conversation with Elena Nikolaeva during an informal luncheon.
For more information on Elena Nikolaeva's work with IUCN, see <https://www.iucn.org/about/work/programmes/gpap_home/gpap_wcpa/gpap_wcparegion/gpap_wcpaeurasia/>.
For announcement on calendar of Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, see <http://environment.yale.edu/calendar/listing/29332>.
For some articles on Russia's system of protected areas, see <http://www.strebeigh.com/russian-nature.html>.
-- Fred Strebeigh <fred.strebeigh@yale.edu> (lecturer in F&ES), last revised 2/25/2016.
Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
Bowers Auditorium, Sage Hall, 205 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT
Russia in 1916-17 began creation of what has become the world's largest system of strictly protected nature reserves (listed as category Ia by IUCN, the International Union for Conservation of Nature)--more tightly protected than America's national wilderness system (category Ib, IUCN) or national parks (category II).
Elena Nikolaeva has worked in Russia's protected area system as a field researcher and environmental educator, and she serves as Vice Chair for North Eurasia in IUCN's World Commission on Protected Areas. She also participated with Russia's delegation at the World Parks Congress in 2014 in Australia, where Russia committed to expand its protected area network by more than 20%, a planned increase of 32 million acres. (52 million acres is the total size of America's 59 national parks.)
Elena will discuss current issues and opportunities for Russia's protected areas, including its unparalleled system of 103 nature reserves (zapovedniki) and their planned expansion.
After the talk, attendees are invited to continue conversation with Elena Nikolaeva during an informal luncheon.
For more information on Elena Nikolaeva's work with IUCN, see <https://www.iucn.org/about/work/programmes/gpap_home/gpap_wcpa/gpap_wcparegion/gpap_wcpaeurasia/>.
For announcement on calendar of Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, see <http://environment.yale.edu/calendar/listing/29332>.
For some articles on Russia's system of protected areas, see <http://www.strebeigh.com/russian-nature.html>.
-- Fred Strebeigh <fred.strebeigh@yale.edu> (lecturer in F&ES), last revised 2/25/2016.