Events

The project delegation visited Baikal state nature biosphere reserve in Tankhoi (Kabanski distr., Buryatia) in 29 May 2012. The sides discussed prospects of ecotourism development in reserve, entered engagement on the structure of the work to be performed under the contract “Biodiversity compatible tourism plan for Baikal state nature biosphere reserve”. Special attention was paid to the influence of tourism on protected areas and the assessment of eco-tourism in the reserve.

http://baikal-info.ru/archives/33519

http://www.baikalfund.ru/news/baikal/article.wbp?article_id=3a149cdf-acbe-43e9-820e-8194e11e72a6

Awarding of winners of The Russian National Competition of schoolchildren water projects, which was carried out with the support of the GEF-UNDP project on 26 May 2012.

http://www.ecolandia.ru/

The deputy group “Baikal” was established in The State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation on 27 April, 2012. The group includes deputies of the sixth convocation from Russian regions, located in the Baikal natural territory (Irkutsk region, Buryatia, Zabaykalskiy kray). Members from fraction “Edinaya Rossiya” are Michael Slipenchuk, Iosif Kobzon, Anton Romanov and Sergei Ten; from fraction CPRF - Sergei Levchenko, Vyacheslav Markhaev, Vladimir Pozdnyakov and Eugeniy Rulkov; from fraction “Spravedlivaya Rossiya” – Ivan Grachev, Constantin Ilkovskiy, Andrey Krutov; from fraction LDPR – Vasilina Kulieva and Andrey Lugovoi. This group is expected to improve the legal framework for the implementation of federal and local laws for Lake Baikal preservation and also improvement of socio-economic and environmental conditions in the Baikal region.

The UNDP/GEF project "Integrated Natural Resource Management in the Baikal Basin Transboundary Ecosystem" has supported shoreline and ice cleanup public event “Clean Ice of Baikal” on 14 April 2012 in Yartsy township. This event was organized by International volunteer project “Save Baikal”, and is a part of international garbage collection campaign “Let’s Do It World Clean Up 2012!” and “All-Russian Cleaning 2012”.
40 volunteers from Russia (Ulan-Ude, Moscow), France and Polland took part in this event. During 6 hours of work 90 garbage bags, 120 liters each, were filled with garbage from Baikal ice and shoreline by the volunteers.

http://runews.org/volontery-so-vsej-rossii-aktivno-prinyalis-za-uborku-bajkala/

http://www.baikalfund.ru/news/baikal/article.wbp?article_id=b93d162e-fc4b-462d-a202-00a557ba44b9

http://baikal-daily.ru/news/16/43162/

http://www.uumoda.ru/news/421/120582/

http://baikaler.ru/news/2012/04/12/652/

http://www.risk.ru/users/ss18/193326/

http://doit-together.ru/news/uborka-chistyy-led-baykala-buryatiya

http://savebaikal.com/clean-ice/

http://zauda.ru/content/view/8735/696/

http://animal.ru/articles/4_октября_мир_отмечает_День_животных/

The UNDP/GEF project "Integrated Natural Resource Management in the Baikal Basin Transboundary Ecosystem" has supported shoreline and ice cleanup public event “Clean Ice of Baikal” on 14 April 2012 in Yartsy township. This event was organized by International volunteer project “Save Baikal”, and is a part of international garbage collection campaign “Let’s Do It World Clean Up 2012!” and “All-Russian Cleaning 2012”.
40 volunteers from Russia (Ulan-Ude, Moscow), France and Polland took part in this event. During 6 hours of work 90 garbage bags, 120 liters each, were filled with garbage from Baikal ice and shoreline by the volunteers.

The International workshop conference "Cooperation Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Science with the Academy of Sciences of Mongolia on implementation of joint projects: results and prospects" was opened on 14 February 2012 in the Irkutsk Scientific Center. The participants shared their experience and discussed further cooperation. Total, the conference was attended by over 80 people from seven cities of Russia (Novosibirsk, Ulan-Ude, Chita, Kemerevo, Irkutsk) and 14 representatives from Ulan Bator. Project Manager Sergey Kudelya shared information about Lake Baikal Project with main stakeholders.

Dear colleagues,

from 1st of January 2012 to 6th of January 2012 all project staff will be out of office on official holidays.

Happy New Year!