• CURRENT EVENTS
• The 2-nd World Conservation Congress Took Place
• International Socio-Ecological Union holds Seventh Conference
• Reserve Staff Day - 2000
• Fortieth Anniversary of Russia's First Nature Conservation Law
• Fortieth Anniversary of Russia's First Student Nature Guards
• Seventh Anniversary of the Biological Faculty of Moscow State University
• Discussion Meeting on the Draft Management Strategy of Russia's National Parks
• Experience in Cooperation
• The International Symposium "Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics in Northern Eurasia" Took Place
• The V All-Russian Conference on Water Plants "Hydrobotany 2000" Took Place
• The Workshop "Environmental Education of Schoolchildren" Took Place
• The Phonological Meeting on the Project "Northern Cola Nature Chronicles"
• Ryazan’s New Regional Network of Natural Heritage Keepers
• The Strict Nature Reserve (Zapovednik) "Polistovsky" Fenced-off Area Established
• News from Ukraine
  
  
• DECISION-MAKING ISSUES
• Letter of Instruction from the Russian Ministry of Natural Resources’ Department of Environmental Protection and Ecological Safety October 23, 2000 #33-01-3/462 “On Restricted Economic Activity inside State Nature Reserves”
• Resolution of the Russian Ministry of Natural Resources Board (October 11, 2000 #16-1) “On the Current State and Aims of the System of Natural Protected Territories of Federal Significance in Russia”
• Selected Facts on National Parks in 1999
  
  
• CHARITABLE GRANTS
• The Filing Conditions on the Regional Strict Nature Reserves and National Parks Associations' Competition in 2001
• John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Research and Writing Grants for Individuals (Initiative in Russian Federation and Post-Soviet States), 2000
• The Third National Parks Fund Grant Competition is Announced
• Information on the Project ROLL-2000
• Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Invites to Take Part in the Grant Competition
• The Additional List of the Third USA Fish and Wildlife Service Grant Competition Winners is Announced
  
  
• UPCOMING SCIENTIFIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL FORUMS
  
  • The On-Line Workshop of the WETLANDS INTERNATIONAL Russian Program
  • IX Regional Scientific Conference "Matters of the Verkhnee Pooch'e Archeology, History, Culture and Nature"
    
    
• ECOLOGICAL EDUCATION
• Fifty Years with Nature
• 20^th Anniversary of Experimental Biological Association
• Presentation of Ecological Education Programs
  
  
• YOUR BOOKSHELF
• Were Published
• The Scientific Publications Distributing Centre "Scientific World" Advertise Scientific Literature
• Books Distributed by Department of Geobotany of Moscow State University
  
  
• MISCELLANEOUS
• Financing of Protected Areas
  
  
• ANNOUNCEMENTS

*Only selected articles are presented in this English version of the bulletin. They are hyperlinked.

The Russian version of this issue has been made possible by the Global Environmental Facility (GEF) Project “Biodiversity Conservation in the Russian Federation” and by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

The electronic English version of the bulletin prepared with the support of Svanhovd Environmental Centre (Svanvik, Norway).

“Zapovedniki i Natsionalnye Parki”
(Nature Reserves and National Parks) Bulletin is published by the Biodiversity Conservation Center (BCC) and registered with the Federal Press Committee of the Russian Federation (registration No. 017660 of 05.29.98).

The Russian version of the bulletin is distributed in the former Soviet Union.

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