We studied the history of F.E. Falz-Fein Biosphere Reserve “Askania-Nova”, which can be divided into several periods. The first period is founding Askania-Nova estate by German Duke F. Anhalt-Kothen (1841). second associated with activities: organization a zoo semi-free animals (1874), establishment dendrological park artificial irrigation (1887), bequest virgin steppe territories (1898). next ...

Les activités d’exploitation forestière, les changements et variations climatiques menacent la durabilité de l’ensemble l’écosystème forestier. L’entretien l’évaluation périodique divers écosystèmes sont donc cruciaux pour survie à long terme des êtres humains. Cependant, données base sur l’appauvrissement forestiers au Nigéria insuffisantes ou absentes. Le but présente étude était d’évaluer re...

Lion populations have undergone a severe decline in West Africa. As baseline for conservation management, we assessed the group structure of lions in the Pendjari Biosphere Reserve in Benin. This reserve, composed of one National Park and two Hunting Zones, is part of the WAP transboundary complex of protected areas. Overall mean group size was 2.6±1.7 individuals (n = 296), it was significantl...

The article contains a brief overview of joint research activities (done using GIS methods) in the East European chain of valuable areas of the world connecting five countries: Belarus, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Ukraine. Mentioned territories are currently under focus of such international organizations as Man and Biosphere UNESCO, which are performing some initiatives in this region. The firs...

Between 2014 and 2016, Ukraine's Danube Biosphere Reserve (DBR) administrators devoted extensive time to lawsuits in which they defended the legality of commercial fisheries reserve territory. Two cases are discussed order examine what impact litigation had why pursued when dominant accounts law Ukraine suggest that avoiding courts might be a more likely response. It analyzes court documents in...

Bovid diets have been studied for decades, but debate still exists about the diets of many species, in part because of geographical or habitat-related dietary variations. In this study we used stable carbon isotope analyses of faeces to explore the seasonal dietary preferences of 11 bovid species from a West African savanna, the Pendjari Biosphere Reserve (PBR), along the browser/grazer (or C3/...

the current state of whitefish population and their organisms have been investigated in subarctic lake chuna exposed to long-term air pollution from copper-nickel industry. both annual and long-term heavy metals and acid oxides loads on the lake have been determined. a qualitative assessment has been made for water and bottom sediments. the investigation results have been compared with those of...