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the Global Environmental Facility (GEF) Project “Biodiversity Conservation
in the Russian Federation” and by the John D. and Catherine T.
MacArthur Foundation.
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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).
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Editorial Board:
Nikolai Formozov
Inna Kupriyanova
Viktor Popov Andrei Shcherbakov (deputy editor) Yevgeny Shvarts Vsevolod Stepanitsky (deputy editor) Yuri Vedenin Svyatoslav Zabelin Alexey Zimenko (editor-in-chief)
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Editor of this issue (Russian): Tatiana Kramina,
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(English): Joanne Turnbull Translators: Maria Travkina
Yegor Bazykin
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Anna Kiseleva