We would like to offer you to participate in our new project - on-line journal Nature of Russia. For publication in the journal BioDat accepts from its partners and users scientific, popular scientific and journalistic articles, fiction, notes and reviews about the nature of Russia. The publications in Nature of Russia would help young specialists, employees of nature reserves, scientists living in remote areas. Please send materials that you consider to be the most interesting and felicitous. Among them could be already published, but obscure articles, totally new papers and materials sent to scientific publishing offices, but stuck there while being reviewed by the opponents. We welcome references to the articles already featured on the Web if they correspond to subject area of our journal, as well as the lists of such references - files of themes and problems. Check your archives, search for works, which could be interesting to your colleagues, but which are still awaiting for their publishing time.
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NATURE OF RUSSIA Table of contents I. Hot Topic   Protected Natural Areas of Russia: Stable Threat and Threatening Stability, May 2002   Chronicle of Exacerbation. Internet-Dossier of BioDat about the crisis of the management system in the sphere of Protected Natural Areas. 2003, December - February 2004   Lessons of the Crisis … such report has been prepared for BioDat by one of the key participants in the events   Methods and Procedure of the Cadastral Valuation of Specially Protected Areas, A.S. Martynov, Center for Ecological and Economic Research and Information of the Ministry of Natural Resources, February 2004   Status and Prospects of Developing Specially Protected Areas in the Regions of Russia Settled Long Time Ago, A. Blagovidov, Representation of MSOP for Russia and CIS, February 2004 II. Practical Work Priorities    Concept of application in the project of GEF Development of territorial protection of wild life on the basis of ecologization of land use systems within the regions of Russia settled long time ago under the conditions of land market formation February 2004   Priorities of biodiversity conservation in the steppes of Russia A.A. Tishkov, Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences, February 2004   Tasks for Restoration and Maintenance of the Natural Framework in the Steppe and Forest-Steppe Zone, N.A. Sobolev, Center for Wild Life Protection, February 2004   Wild Horse Returning, V.Y. Sharov, journalist, May-December 2003 III. In the Regions of Russia   Forests of Tunkin National Park B.N. Moiseev, VNIILM, Ministry of Natural Resources, February 2004 IV. International Cooperation   Seventh Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biodiversity (in progress) V. Science   Concept of Natural Cyclic Recurrence and Some Tasks of Nature Protection Policy of Russia, V.G. Krivenko, Research Institute of Nature Protection, Moscow, February 2004   Lead Poisoning of Waterfowl: Review E.A. Kuznetsov, Research Institute of Nature Protection, Moscow, February 2004 VI. Creative Work   FLOW OF LIFE. Book of Poetry about Nature Victor Bezborodov, writer, February 2004