In Russia, due to cutting down trees, mining and agriculture may disappear five ancient forests. About it reports on Tuesday, March 21, according to the world wildlife Fund (WWF) Russia.
We are talking about Dvinsko-Pinezhsky area of the Arkhangelsk region (about 900 thousand hectares), which has a unique variety of landscapes, flora and fauna. With almost all of its area leased leadoveni farms.
WWF also mentions Samur forest in Dagestan (about 8 thousand hectares), inhabited by 65 species of animals listed in the Red book, and the Markotkh mountain range along the Black sea coast in the North-West of the North Caucasus. On the second preserved relict pistachio-juniper and juniper-oak trees (more than 100 thousand hectares).
Among endangered Eastern arrays WWF calls belt forests in the Altai region (640 thousand hectares) and Arsen forest in the Khabarovsk territory. To keep the organization proposes to create a nature reserve with an area of 217 hectares.
The organization noted that in Russia for 13 years disappeared 21 million hectares of forest, or 7.5 percent of the total area of the arrays. “The rate of reduction [of forests] in a year is 1.6 million hectares — six territories of Moscow”, — stressed in the WWF.
In 2016, WWF welcomed the activities of the Russian legislature in the field of environmental protection. Most of the adopted by the Duma of the sixth convocation of the law the experts considered useful.