Hundreds of Russian muskrats, listed in the Red book, was in a potentially dangerous habitat: next to the construction of high speed railway Moscow — Kazan. On Friday, 29 September, told RIA Novosti chief editor of the magazine “Ekograd” Igor Panarin.
“The railway passes close to a variety of regional parks and protected areas. Including Red Hill, Zhelnino-Pushkino-the Seimas, the floodplain of the Klyazma river in illins’ke forestry, as well as in Lyskovskiy district, home to the famous wetlands of international importance,” — said the expert.
Panarin said that the Russian desman is so rare and endangered that individuals need to catch and relocate existing nature reserves or close to them. 20 individuals desman are planning to relocate soon in the Vladimir region, where the road will pass, but that’s not enough, said the expert. According to him, in the Nizhny Novgorod region, where he will pave the section of the railway are not considered animals.
The construction of Russia’s first high-speed railway will start next year. On the future of rail in areas of animal migration plans to build 89 steropodon. In the pilot project have committed more than 1.2 trillion rubles.
Russian desman is a relict species of the family of wormholes. In prehistoric times the area of the beast stretched across Europe, now confined to the basins of the Dnieper, Volga, don and Ural.