Home http://baikal.iwlearn.org These are the search results for the query, showing results 601 to 615. Results & reports http://baikal.iwlearn.org/en/project/project-tender-reports-2012 No publisher Dmitry Popov 2013-02-14T08:08:35Z Folder Tourism plan for Baikal Bioshpere Reserve http://baikal.iwlearn.org/en/results/tourism-plan-for-baikal-bioshpere-reserve Biodiversity compatible recreational tourism plan for Baikal Bioshpere Reserve Executor: NGO "Baikal Ecotourism association"

End of works: December 2012.

Final products:

  • Assessment of the Baikal Bioshpere Reserve conformity with international criteria of joining to international ecotourism net.
  • Plan of joining of Baikal Bioshere Reserve to international ecotourism net.

The work completed. Strengths and weaknesses of the Baikal Bioshpere Reserve have been analyzed. Plan of its joining to international ecotourism net has been developed.

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]]> No publisher Sergey KUDELYA 2013-02-14T07:55:00Z News Item Strategy for (dead) livestock disposal http://baikal.iwlearn.org/en/results/strategy-for-dead-livestock-disposal Executor: Buryat State Academy of Agriculture.

End of works: November 2012

Final products:

  • Inventory of cattle mortuaries in Barguzinsky and Kurumkansky districts of Buryatia, assessment of their ecological and microbiological condition.
  • Assessment of technologies of elimination of unconditioned cattle mortuaries, using best existing practices.
  • Development of necessary improvement in dead livestock disposal which leads to the anthrax outburst.

The work completed. Analytical review of anthrax incidents on the Baikal basin transboundary territory (Buryatia, Zabaikalsky Krai, Mongolia) has been compiled. Inventory and mapping of existing cattle mortuaries in Barguzinsky and Kurumkansky districts has been carried out. Assessment of technologies of elimination of unconditioned cattle mortuaries has been conducted.

Certain places have been determined and local construction estimates of 2 new cattle mortuaries have been prepared. Request for quotations for cattle mortuaries erection in 2013 have been made.

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]]> No publisher Sergey KUDELYA 2013-02-14T07:55:00Z News Item Education Plan - Buryatiya http://baikal.iwlearn.org/en/results/education-plan-buryatiya Road map of ecological education enhancement till 2015 at different levels (preschool, school, college education) has been developed. Executor: Buryat State University.

Final products in 2012:

The work completed. Road map of ecological education enhancement till 2015 at different levels (preschool, school, college education) has been developed.

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]]> No publisher Sergey KUDELYA 2013-02-14T07:55:00Z News Item Training manual http://baikal.iwlearn.org/en/results/training-manual Upgrade of competency of administrative staff in the field of ecology and sustainable development for Integrated Natural Resource Management in the Baikal Basin Transboundary Ecosystem Executor: Zabaikalsky State Pedagogical University

Final products in 2012:

The work completed: conception and academic manuals for upgrade of competency of administrative staff in the field of ecology and sustainable development have been developed. The work is recommended for replication and introduction in regions of the Baikal district.

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]]> No publisher Sergey KUDELYA 2013-02-14T07:55:00Z News Item Education Plan http://baikal.iwlearn.org/en/results/education-plan Ecological Education Enhancement Plan Executor: Moscow State University.

Final products in 2012:

The work completed. Road map of ecological education enhancement till 2015 at different levels (preschool, school, college education) has been developed. The work is recommended for replication and introduction in regions of the Baikal district.

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]]> No publisher Sergey KUDELYA 2013-02-14T07:55:00Z News Item 2012 Shoreline clean-up of Hovsgol lake http://baikal.iwlearn.org/en/results/2012-shoreline-clean-up-of-hovsgol-lake Shoreline clean-up of Hovsgol lake and setup of a water sanitation zone in Khatgal village Executor: Mongolia Water Forum-ushelts; “Domogt Dalai” environmental NGO, Khatgal.

End of works: September 2012.

The work completed. Shoreline clean-up of Hovsgol lake in the zone of Khatgal village has been organized together with local administration and school kids.

Water sanitation zone has been erected for the lake’s shoreline pollution protection. The action has been published widely in mass media.

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]]> No publisher Sergey KUDELYA 2013-02-14T07:55:00Z News Item Shoreline clean-up - Russia http://baikal.iwlearn.org/en/results/shoreline-clean-up-russia Shoreline clean-up of the Baikal Lake and Selenga Executor: International Baikal shoreline volunteer group, “Save Baikal” project, youth artistic theatre.

End of works: spring-summer 2012

The work completed. The Project has supported the activity of Baikal shoreline volunteer group camp. Shoreline and lake’s ice-cover clean-up actions in winter period have been held. The Uda river shoreline action has been organized together with city’s administration and citizens. Within the summer period the volunteers gathered more than 450 tons of garbage on the Baikal shoreline of 25 kms long.

More than 100 volunteers have taken part in the action.

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]]> No publisher Sergey KUDELYA 2013-02-14T07:55:00Z News Item BIC Conception http://baikal.iwlearn.org/en/results/bic-conception Baikal Information Center (BIC) Conception Executors: Budget Institution “BurPriroda” of ministry of nature resources of Buryatia (Ulan-Ude), Institute of water research and development (Mongolia).

Final products:

  • Information structure of data base and list of information resources, computer programs for collecting, storage and usage of ecological information.
  • Type of information activity and technological structure of Baikal information center.
  • Scope of activity and participants’ competency level (organizations, their information and users).

Project of agreement between organizations involved in developing of Baikal Information center has been prepared. Currently, it is under agreement process.

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]]> No publisher Sergey KUDELYA 2013-02-14T07:55:00Z News Item Selenga Delta - bentos http://baikal.iwlearn.org/en/results/selenga-delta-bentos Study on the Selenga Delta habitat and the health of the benthic zone Executor: Irkutsk state university.

End of works: November 25, 2012.

Final products:

- Analysis of hydrological, hydrochemical, microbiological, hydrobiological and ichthyological indicators of the Selenga Delta benthic zone.

- Assessment of aboriginal and invasive benthophage fishes’ impact on benthos structure and its quantity indicators.

The work completed. Nourishment of main benthophage fishes has been analyzed, their impact on structure of benthic organisms has been estimated.

No particular impact on zoobenthos of aboriginal species and such introduction species as Amur carp, bream and Amur catfish, has not been detected.

At the same time, practically all age groups of Amur sleeper considerably influence zoobenthos organisms so greatly that by autumn period all benthos organisms are eaten by Amur sleeper. There are recommendations for control of this phenomenon.

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]]> No publisher Sergey KUDELYA 2013-02-14T07:55:00Z News Item Joint monitoring program http://baikal.iwlearn.org/en/results/joint-monitoring-program Harmonized water quality monitoring program for the Selenga Basin Executors: Hydrochemical Institute of RosHydromet (Russia) and Institute of hydrometeorology (Mongolia). End of works: December 2012.

Final products:

  • Integrated with Mongolia approaches to analytical measures quality system.
  • List of methods of physical-chemical analysis and technical tools, recommended for stationary and movable laboratories in the system of the Selenga basin monitoring by Russian and Mongolian sides.
  • Harmonized water quality monitoring program for the Selenga basin.

Currently, harmonized surface water quality monitoring program (developed by Hydrochemical Institute, Russia) for the Baikal Basin is under agreement with Mongolian side.

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]]> No publisher Sergey KUDELYA 2013-02-14T07:55:00Z News Item Model Database http://baikal.iwlearn.org/en/results/model-database Database for modeling and simulation of pollutants transport in the Baikal basin waters. Executors: Moscow State University, Baikal Institute of Nature Management (Russian Academy of Sciences). End of works: December 15, 2012.

Final products:

  • Complex geoinformation system “the Selenga basin, based on ARCGIS software compatible with attributive data base”.
  • Measured pollution content in the Selenga basin rivers within historical data.
  • Set of maps of actual condition (pollution content) of the Selenga basin river system within the observation period (literature references) and according to the data of Moscow State University 2011-2012 expeditions (maps of water run-off characteristics, suspended and tractional loads, chemical elements in the Selenga basin).

The work completed. ARCGIS data base has been developed and presented to the Project management bureau.

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]]> No publisher Sergey KUDELYA 2013-02-14T07:55:00Z News Item The outline plan for spring parliament session 2013 http://baikal.iwlearn.org/en/events/the-outline-plan-for-spring-parliament-session-2013 The outline plan for spring parliament session 2013 was approved by The State Duma Committee on Natural Resources, Environment and Ecology on 20 December 2012. DumaThe outline plan for spring parliament session 2013 was approved by The State Duma Committee on Natural Resources, Environment and Ecology on 20 December 2012.

1) Parliamentary hearing on "Legislative support of efficient development of the fishery sector in The Russian Federation" 6 March, Small Hall 11.00 am-15.00 pm V.Yazev, E. Glubokovskaya, S. Kashintseva.

2) Round table on "Harmonization of legislation on the protection of Lake Baikal in the framework of the concept of the federal target program" Protection of Lake Baikal and the socio-economic development of the Baikal natural territory in 2012 - 2020 years. 8 April, Small Hall, 11.00 am -14.00 pm, M. Slipenchuk, T. Velichko.

3) Parliamentary hearings on "Forest Policy in Russia: A View to the Future", 20 May, Small Hall, 10.00 am -13.00 pm, S. Muravlenko, O. Lebedev, A. Saveleva, L. Svinuhova.

4) Parliamentary hearings on "Transboundary Waters: improvement of Russian legislation and international cooperation" 17 June, Small Hall, 10.00 am – 13.00 pm, M. Slipenchuk.

]]> No publisher Dmitry Popov 2012-12-19T23:00:00Z Event XI Plenipotentiary meeting http://baikal.iwlearn.org/en/events/xi-plenipotentiary-meeting XI Plenipotentiary meeting on implementation the agreement between the Governments of the Russian Federation and Mongolia on the Protection and usage of transboundary water resources. Plenipotentiary meeting

XI Plenipotentiary meeting on implementation the agreement between the Governments of the Russian Federation and Mongolia on the Protection and usage of transboundary water resources was held in Ulan-Ude on 14-15 December 2012.

The Russian delegation was headed by Deputy Head of The Federal Agency of Water Resources Igor Nikitin. The Head of Mongolian delegation was the Deputy Minister of Nature and Green Development in Mongolia - B. Tulga.

Plenipotentiaries believe that the working group has successfully completed the previous plan approved by X Plenipotentiary meeting. Plenipotentiaries expressed a willingness to make joint efforts to further cooperation in the framework of the existing mechanism.

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]]> No publisher Dmitry Popov 2012-12-14T23:00:00Z Event Workshop on tourism development in protected natural areas http://baikal.iwlearn.org/en/events/workshop-on-tourism-development-in-protected-natural-areas in TankhoiA workshop on tourism development in protected natural areas of Buryatia was held in the small hall of the People's Khural of the Republic of Buryatia on December 10, 2012.

The event was part of the Baikal International Conference "Ecology. Education. Tourism" and was supported by the UNDP/GEF project "Integrated Natural Resource Management in the Baikal Basin Transboundary Ecosystem", Global Nature Fund, the Administration of the Head of the Republic of Buryatia and the Government of Buryatia, the Ministry of Natural Resources of the Republic of Buryatia and the NGO "Baikal Information Center "Gran".

According to the organizers, the development of sustainable tourism has become an important trend in activity protected areas. How to combine the increased flow of visitors and conservation of unique natural areas, minimize risk, and make nature closer and clearer - these are the questions that now need to be answered.

The president of Global Nature fund Mrs. Marion Hammerl and board member Ranveig Eckhoff shared their vision of prospects for development of nature tourism.

Author: Eduard Batotsyrenov, Baikal Institute of Nature Managment SB RAS

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