• FROM THE EDITORIAL BOARD
• Letter from the Editor
• Nature Reserves and National Parks 1997-2002:
  a Short History of Our Bulletin
  
  
• CURRENT EVENTS

• Resolution of the Biodiversity and Ecological Safety Section of the All-Russian Conference on Ecological Safety

• Resolution of the International School-Workshop "Reserve and Public Conscience: Ethical and Cultural Aspects" (Tribune-8)

• Reserve Ethical Principles

• Demonstrating Sustainable Biodiversity Conservation
  in Four Protected Natural Areas
  on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula: a GEF/UNDP Project

• Danube - Black Sea Canal Project Forced
  to Circumvent Reserve

• Timber Industrialists Lobby For National Park
  and Nature Monument in Murmansk Region

• 2003 - the Year of Protected Natural Areas

• International Workshop on Protecting the Saiga Antelope: Resolution

• How to Protect Migrating Gazelle: Experts Confer
  at Daursky Biosphere Reserve

• Let's Protect the Russian Desman!

• Crane Field Festival Revives Folk Traditions
  that Promote Nature Conservation  



• DECISION-MAKING ISSUES

• State Nature Reserves Financing in 2001: Summary

• National Parks Financing in 2001: Summary

• Nature Reserves and National Parks Management System: Strengths and Weaknesses

• Russian National Parks Management Strategy



• NEWS FOR THE SCIENTIFIC DEPARTMENTS OF NATURE RESERVES
• Results of "Creation of Regional PNA Systems":
  a Biodiversity Conservation GEF Project


• PNA CONSERVATION AND PROTECTION
• Results of Efforts to Protect State Nature Reserves
  in 2001
• Results of Efforts to Protect National Parks in 2001
  
  
• CHARITABLE GRANTS

• NGO Support Programme

• Smaller Projects In Democracy Institutes

• Contests of the Russian Humanitarian Scientific Fund

• Results of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Grant Contest (Environment and Society Program)

• Results of the National Parks Fund Fourth Annual Grant Contest  



• UPCOMING SCIENTIFIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL FORUMS



• ECOLOGICAL EDUCATION
• The Biodiversity Conservation Center’s Adopt
  a Protected Area Project: Results 2001-2002
• Nature Reserve Calls for Help



• YOUR BOOKSHELF

• Two New Books on Siberian Protected Natural Areas

• Atlas of Russia's Intact Forest Landscapes

• Newly Published
  

• A New Book on Small Indigenous Peoples 


• ELECTRONIC EDITIONS AND INTERNET
• Humanitarian Ecology and Ecological Ethics
• ECOPHOTO — Nature Photo Archive
  


• MARINE PROTECTED NATURAL AREAS

• Marine Reserves - Pressing Problems 



• 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.