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