An Emergency Strategy to Rescue Russia's Biological Diversity

Dinerstein, Eric; Krever, Vladimir; Olson, David M.; Williams, Laura

doi:10.1046/j.1523-1739.1994.08040934.x

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“…In addition, political changes, such as the dissolution of the Soviet Union, have provided new opportunities for crime (Passas 1999;Shelley 1995). In the early 1990s, the existing regulatory systems collapsed and informal criminal systems were developed to replace the formal state services in Russia (Dinerstein et al 1994). According to Varese (1997: 580), the end of socialism resulted in a high amount of corruption and 'Mafia-style crime'.…”

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Wildlife trafficking and criminogenic asymmetries in a globalised world

Uhm¹

2020

Routledge International Handbook of Green Criminology

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Wildlife trafficking and criminogenic asymmetries in a globalised world

Uhm¹

2020

Routledge International Handbook of Green Criminology

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“…URW is a unique region of the Far East where the boreal taiga conifer forest ecosystems from the Siberian north intermingle with the temperate hardwood forest ecosystems from the south. It is the only place on Earth where brown bears (Ursus arctos) occur with Siberian tigers (Panthera tigns altaica) (Dinerstein et al 1995 derived also from Manchurian and Pacific influences, this intermix has resulted in remarkably rich forests with nine conifer tree species and well over 40 hardwood tree species.…”

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A sustainable plan for conserving forest biodiversity in far East Russia and northeast China

Marcot¹,

Ganzei²,

Zhang³

et al. 1997

The Forestry Chronicle

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An ongoing, trinational project is providing the first environUn projet continu impliquant trois pays cherche a etablir un prementally sustainable economic development plan for the Ussuri mier plan de dkeloppement konomique environnementalement River watershed (URW) in Far East Russia and northeast China. durable pour le bassin de la rivike Ussuri OJRw> situe dans extrCmeThe URW is host to a unique mix of northem taiga and southem est de la Russie et au nord-est de la Chine. Le URW constitue une subtropical biota, and contains many endemic, relict, and highassociation unique de la talga nordique et des biotopes subtropily threatened species of plants and animals. In Russia, severe monquaux du sud, et contient plusieurs especes de plantes et d'animaux e q inflation and a shift to a market economy have left some aspects endemiques, reliques et grandement menacees. En Russie, l'imporof forest biodiversity in jeopardy, particularly policing for wildlife tante inflation monetaire et le passage a une economie de marche poachers, regulating CITES (international wildlife trafficking) vie ont mis en peril certains aspects de la biodiversite, notarnment le lations, ensuring long-term sustained production of timber and contrij1e des b~onniers, lert:glement des infractions les ententes non-timber forest products, protecting unique habitats, and adeCmS (trafic de la faunel, le production quately scientific reserves and funding needed research. durable de bois et de produits forestiers non-ligneux, la protection china, broad scale conversion ofremaining wetlands to agrid'habitats uniques, et I'embauche de personnel dans les reserves culture and rice paddies, and of diverse native forests to intensively scientifiques ainsi que le financement requis pour la recherche. En managed, monocultural plantations, is helping to sustain the Chine, la conversion grande echelle des marecages encore economy but is sacrificing biodiversity. A proposed sustainable disponibles en champs agricoles ou en rizieres, ainsi que des land use plan has (1) mapped resource use areas, including both diverses forCts naturelles en monocultures hautement amenagees, permet de maintenir I'economie mais sacrifie la biodiversite. Un proposed and existing transborder nature (2) encouraged plan de gestion durable des terres a kt& propost(1) de foreign ~~v e m e n t in both countries, and (3) encouraged swtainable cartographier les zones d'utilisation des ressources, incluant a la development of natural resource markets that will be compatible fois les reserves naturelles envisagees et existantes de chaque c8te with long-term conservation of biodiversity. A hallmark of this de ,a frontikre, (2) d,encourager les investissements etrangers dans plan is integrating the needs of the people with the the les deux pays, et (3) d'encourager le dCveloppement durable de land through both protection and wise resource use. marches a base de ressources naturelles qui sera compatible avec la conservation a long terme de la biodiversite. Un fait saillant de Key words: Russia, Chi...

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“…We have spent much of our careers developing multifaceted measures of biodiversity to inform priority setting, including the Global 200 conservation priorities (identified on the basis of representation, ecological phenomena, richness, and endemism) and several boreal forest analyses and conservation strategies (Bonan & Shugart 1989; Bonan et al 1990; Dinerstein et al 1994, 1995; Krever et al 1994; Olson & Dinerstein 1998, 2002; Ricketts et al 1999; Wikramanayake et al 2002; Burgess et al 2004; Ricketts et al 2005). We appreciate Leroux and Schmiegelow's comments for another opportunity to highlight the need to consider a full range of discriminators in identifying global and regional conservation priorities.…”

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The Multifaceted Nature of Biodiversity Conservation: Reply to Leroux and Schmiegelow

Lamoreux

Morrison

Ricketts

et al. 2007

Conservation Biology

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Leroux and Schmiegelow raise several key issues about our paper (Lamoreux et al. 2006) regarding global tests of concordance for species richness and endemism and their implications for conservation. Although we differ with Leroux and Schmiegelow over the importance of endemism, we agree with enough of their comments that we are left to wonder why these were offered as a critique of our work.Leroux and Schmiegelow partition our global data set of terrestrial vertebrates into three categories of overall richness and find that, within each category, the richness of the groups shows little overlap. They conclude that "partitioning the data into richness categories seriously challenges the notion that a given vertebrate class can be used reliably as a surrogate for others."Although Leroux and Schmiegelow provide this analysis as a challenge to our work, we agree with their result: global correlations, especially those of richness, are of little practical use for conservation. And we said as much in the paper: "Global conservation priorities based on richness alone will overlook many endemic species." We also noted that "although global correlations are suggestive of concordant diversity patterns, the question most relevant to conservation decisions is whether a specific set of ecoregions selected for one measure will represent nontarget species (Balmford 1998;Howard et al. 1998;Moore et al. 2003)."In our paper we addressed this question by selecting ecoregions based on the number of endemics they contain and asking how many total species are also repre- †

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An Emergency Strategy to Rescue Russia's Biological Diversity

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Wildlife trafficking and criminogenic asymmetries in a globalised world

Wildlife trafficking and criminogenic asymmetries in a globalised world

A sustainable plan for conserving forest biodiversity in far East Russia and northeast China

The Multifaceted Nature of Biodiversity Conservation: Reply to Leroux and Schmiegelow

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