How Zapovedniks are created in Russia

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How Zapovedniks are created in Russia

• Past and Current Strategies

Nikolai A. Maleshin President of All-Russian
Zapovednik Directors Association
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Content of the presentation

• What is the process of reviewing available lands
  in Russia to determine what would make a good
  Zapovednik? 
• Who does the review?
• Who approves the final decision?

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What is the process of reviewing available lands
in Russia to determine what would make a good
Zapovednik? 
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Biome Representativeness of Zapovedniks
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Development of Zapovednik System
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The network keeps growing
Russian government in 2001 issued a plan to found
9 new zapovedniks and 12 national parks by the
year 2010, but since 2000 no new zapovedniks or
NPs have been created
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Who does the review?
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General procedures in Zapovedniks creation.
Stage I

• Initial proposal might arise from local or
  regional authorities, NGOs, organizations, and
  other Specially PAs.
• But only organizations that are authorized by
  Ministry of Natural Recourses (AO) can develop a
  project to create a new zapovednik. Based on
  The Instruction about Specially PAs projecting
  (May 13, 1994).

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General procedures in Zapovednik creation. Stage I

• Local or regional Committee for Land Use after
  official request from AO should draw a map of
  future zapovedniks area with boundaries of land
  plots belonging to state, municipality, other
  landowners, neighboring properties
• AO must get concordance on that map and get
  officially signed and sealed agreement for the
  land withdrawal with each of land user
  (delimitation of boundaries).

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General procedures in Zapovednik creation. Stage
II

• Local and regional authorities one by one should
  issue official orders about their support and
  concordance for the lands withdrawal for nature
  protection and zapovedniks organization.
• All documentation should be sent on federal
  level to Ministry of Natural Recourses (MNR).

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General procedures in Zapovednik creation. Stage
III

• Department of MNR which is responsible for the
  Zapovednik System Management has to submit
  documentation for Ecological Expertise
• They conclude whether it is possible or not to
  organize the zapovednik in that certain place.
• In case of positive conclusion of the Ecological
  Expertise , MNR prepares a Draft of Governmental
  Decree on zapovednik creation.

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Who approves the final decision?
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• After all preliminary work, documentation should
  be approved by Ministry of Justice, Ministry of
  Economical Development, Ministry of Finance,
  Ministry of Agriculture
• The final procedure is the order of the federal
  government signed by Prime Minister to create new
  zapovednik.

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Structure of State Control in Nature Use

• Government of Russia

Ministry of nature Resources (MNR)
Federal Supervision Service in Nature
Use (Rosprirodnadzor RF)
Federal Agency of Forest Resources
Federal Agency of Water Resources
Federal Agency of Mineral Resources
Department of Nature Protected Areas, Ecological
Expertise and Licenses Delivery
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Structure of State Control in Nature Use

• Government of Russia

Ministry of nature Resources (MNR)
Federal Department for Ecological Policy
Department of Legal Foundations of the State
Nature Protected Areas
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Structure of State Control in Nature Use

• Government of Russia

Ministry of nature Resources (MNR)
Federal Supervision Service in
Ecology, Technology and Energy (Rosteckhnadzor RF)
Federal Supervision Service in Nature
Use (Rosprirodnadzor RF)
89 Regional Affiliates (Rosteckhnadzor RF)
Department of Nature Protected Areas,
Ecological Expertise and Licenses Delivery
Department of Ecological Supervision (air
quality, solid and liquid contamination, and
payments)
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The past decade has clearly shown the strengths
and weaknesses of Russias system of
zapovedniks.The long process to establish an
area means that it is almost impossible to
decommission a zapovednik.Zapovedniks have a
strong scientific and ecological foundation.
However, we have uncovered a number of serious
problems that prevent protected areas from
functioning effectively in the new political and
socio-economic conditions that characterize
todays Russia.
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Some of these problems such as improving
legislative groundwork and ranger services can
be solved in the near future. Meeting other
challenges will require broad changes in public
opinion and government management structures, two
institutions whose inertia cannot be turned
overnight.The system needs to expand. The
system needs proper representation in federal
government with sufficient staff in an
independent agency.The system requires increased
budget.