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«FROM THE EDITORIAL BOARD»
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Dear colleagues!
Publication of the Nature Reserves and National Parks bulletin by Moscow's
Biodiversity Conservation Center (BCC) has been made possible by a Global
Environmental Facility (GEF) Project dedicated to preserving biodiversity
in Russia. With this issue of the bulletin, however, this GEF Project comes
to an end. Over the last five years the bulletin has proved its independence
with its own range of topics, sections and design. It has become a professional
information bulletin. (See the Short History below.)
On behalf of the bulletin's readers, the BCC wishes to thank the members
of the editorial board and the editorial team for their superb work and
for the bulletin's highly informative content. We would also like to thank
the GEF Biodiversity Conservation Project for its administrative support.
Experts from the State Committee on Ecology, from Rosleshoz (the Forestry
Committee) and the Ministry of Natural Resources responsible for PNAs also
provided material. The GEF Project provided the basic financing. The bulletin
had additional support from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
and from WWF's Russian Office.
The BCC is still looking for the financial means to continue publication
of Nature Reserves and National Parks. We have nothing definite yet, but
there is reason for optimism. As of 2001, we began publishing the English-language
version of the bulletin in an electronic edition as well, which attests
to our foreign colleagues' interest in it.
Please write to us if you would like to continue receiving Nature Reserves
and National Parks. We would be happy to know how the bulletin assists you in
your work and that you really need it. Your suggestions as to how to develop
the bulletin in future and how you have used it to date would be of enormous
help to us.
The cover of this issue features a photograph of two saigas. Only recently
these animals were common in the spacious Russian steppes. Today the Saiga
is one of Russia's most seriously endangered species. In this issue you
will find the Resolution of the International Meeting on Saiga Protection:
it calls for combined efforts and real measures in the sphere of Saiga conservation.
We are sure that Nature Reserves and National Parks can continue to help
solve significant biodiversity conservation and reserve problems by making
such urgent information public.
We look forward to continuing the good work!
Alexey Zimenko,
Chairman of the Board
Biodiversity Conservation Center
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