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This year, harvesting of Caspian Sea basin sturgeon fish is restricted to populating breeding farms.

WWF urges Russia to ban caviar exports

Russia should stop exporting caviar to help save the threatened sturgeon population, says WWF-Russia.

Posted on 31 January 2008 | 0 comments | Read more

Russians asked to sign petition against gas pipeline route

Russians are being asked to sign a petition to stop a gas pipeline being built through a World Heritage listed national park in a campaign being organized by WWF-Russia.

Posted on 22 January 2008 | 0 comments | Read more

Amur tiger (<I>Panthera tigris altaica</I>).

A new national park in the Russian Far East will protect tiger habitats

The Russian government made a Christmas gift to endangered big cats, which inhabit two thirds of the new protected area.

Posted on 15 December 2007 | 0 comments | Read more

Japan is the world’s largest importer of salmon, and imports around half its frozen sockeye supplies directly from Russia.

Russian salmon figures don’t add up

According to a report from WWF and TRAFFIC, East Asian countries are importing more Russian sockeye salmon than Russia is reporting, leading to concerns about overfishing and illegal catches.

Posted on 13 November 2007 | 0 comments | Read more

Walrus spotted on a tourist cruise around the archipelago of Svalbard, located between the Norwegian mainland and the Northpole.

Melting ice displaces walruses in the Russian Arctic

Thousands of walruses have appeared on the Russian Arctic coast, a phenomenon that scientists believe is a result of global warming melting Arctic sea ice.

Posted on 11 October 2007 | 0 comments | Read more

Polar bear (<i>Ursus maritimus</i>) cubs. Svalbard, Norway.

New nature reserve for Russian Arctic

The creation of a new protected area in the western Russian Arctic will help protect threatened arctic species such as walruses and polar bears.

Posted on 05 July 2007 | 2 comments | Read more

There are fewer than 100 western gray whales (<i>Eschrictius robustus</I>) remaining.

Endangered whales vanishing from Russian waters

Noise pollution from the world's largest gas and oil projects in the Russian Far East is the likely cause behind critically endangered western gray whales abandoning their only known feeding area.

Posted on 03 July 2007 | 0 comments | Read more

Amur tiger (<I>Panthera tigris altaica</I>).

Second national park in Russian Far East boosts Siberian tiger conservation

The long-awaited Udege National Park in Russia's Far East is the second one of its kind created for Siberian tigers in the span of one week.

Posted on 10 June 2007 | 0 comments | Read more

Siberian tiger, Russia.

First national park established in Russian Far East

The Zov Tigra National Park in Russia's far eastern Primorye region will help conserve biodiversity, including the endangered Siberian tiger.

Posted on 07 June 2007 | 0 comments | Read more

It is believed that only a few Persian leopards inhabit the Northern Caucasus region.

Reintroducing endangered leopards to the Northern Caucasus

WWF launches a reintroduction project that will see the critically endangered Persian leopards, virtually extinct in Russia, thrive once again in its former habitat in the country’s Northern Caucasus region.

Posted on 22 May 2007 | 1 comments | Read more

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