Territorial Protection Maintenance of the Wildlife Species Listed in the Red Data Book of the Nizhny Novgorod Region

Abstract

The paper summarizes the results of the analysis of the territorial protection maintenance of the wildlife species listed in the Red Data Book of the Nizhny Novgorod region. To assess the current state of territorial protection of rare wildlife species the database containing 3599 facts of registrations of the rare wildlife species on approved and projected protected areas of the Nizhny Novgorod region was compiled by the authors. In addition, authors have offered to recognize 5 levels of the protection maintenance: full, good, satisfactory, poor, and absent. Authors have evaluated the scale of changes in the rare wildlife species providing with territorial protection in the XX-XXI centuries as well. The territorial protection maintenance of the rare wildlife species in the Nizhny Novgorod region has grown significantly over the past 40 years. In 2001, the rare wildlife species listed in the Red Data Book of the Nizhny Novgorod region were known to inhabit only 195 protected areas. Now the rare species of animals, plants, fungi and lichens are protected in 227 approved protected areas, and 92 territories are projected for the protected areas establishing. In general, the territorial protection of rare species listed in the regional Red Data Book seems to be satisfactory, but need the significant improvement. It is necessary to create additional protected areas along with continued searching of rare species habitats.

Compilation of regional, national and pan-European approaches to biodiversity conservation in the protected area projecting on the example of the National Park “Nizhegorodskoe Zavolzhye” (Nizhny Novgorod Region, Russia)

“…Sites of the National Park were mainly projected basing on the already existing regional protected areas (nature reserves and natural monuments). Specialists included in the number of designers of the national park, in different years (since the 1980s) took part in the creation of protected areas, as well as in monitoring their condition, identifying and monitoring the number of rare and endangered wildlife species [1][2] and analyzing the landscape structure [3][4]. A lot of data about the natural features of the projected area has been accumulated for the now.…”

Morphometric and hydrological features of the lakes of the Sergachsky municipal district (Nizhny Novgorod region, Russia)

“…Determining the features of the relief of the lake basin is an important step towards determining the age of the lake, its origin, its current state and developing a forecast for future development. Morphometric and hydrological features of lakes are of interest to hydrologists [2], biologists [3][4][5], ecologists [6][7], as well as tourists, visiting lakes for recreation. Reliable data on the relief of the lake basin and the main hydrological characteristics of the lakes of the Sergachsky municipal district have not yet been obtained.…”

Morphometric characteristics of the lakes of the Pustynsky district of the projected National Park “Nizhegorodskoe Zavolzh’e”

“…The results of researches of morphometric and hydrological characteristics of lakes are of fundamental importance for conducting scientific research by hydrologists [1], biologists [2][3][4], ecologists [5][6]. The applied significance of such researches is obvious, in particular, data on the morphometric and hydrological characteristics of the lakes of the Pustynsky district of the projected National Park "Nizhegorodskoe Zavolzh'e" are fundamentally important for the organization of safe and effective recreation, since it is the lakes that are the most obvious center of gravity for vacationers.…”