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Reserves and national parks of Belarus


[new] Berezinski Biosphere Reserve [new] Braslav Lakes National Park [new] Narochanski National Park [new] Pripyatski National Park

About Belovezhskaya Pushcha


[new] Belovezhskaya Pushcha National Park The official website of the National Park "Belovezhskaya Pushcha" The National Park "Belovezhskaya Pushcha"The page on Brest.by Belovezhskaya Pushcha UN Project BELEXPO - In reserved sites of Belarus Photo album - forest Reserve "Belovezhskaya Pushcha" Native land: the rest of patriots (Belarus) Kamenetz town, Kamenetz Tower The World Heritage Site "Belovezhskaya Pushcha" (in English) The World Heritage Site "Belovezhskaya Pushcha" (in Russian) The Biosphere Reserve "Belovezhskaya Pushcha" The Man and Biosphere Programme (MAB), UNESCO (in English) Belovezhskaya Pushcha National Park, Belarus, Encyclopedia of Earth Description of the Belarusian part of the Bialowieza Forest on the website "Encyclopedia of Earth" Belovezhskaya Pushcha_Belarus/Poland Description of the Belarusian part of the Bialowieza Forest on the website "Tocatch.info"

Campaigns for protection of Belovezhskaya Pushcha (Belarus)


Campaign for protection of Belovezhskaya Pushcha At the website of the International Social-Ecological Union (Russian Federation) Campaign for protection of Belovezhskaya Pushcha At the website "Nature Protection Service of the Nature Protection Team of the Kazan University" (Russian Federation) Campaign for protection of Belovezhskaya Pushcha At the website of the Wild Nature Protection Center (Russian Federation) Campaign for protection of Belovezhskaya Pushcha On the website of Proact (in English) Campaign for protection of Belovezhskaya Pushcha The Project "Person": Valery Dranchuk (on the Charter'97 website)

Belovezhskaya Pushcha — Bialowieza National Park (Poland)


Bialowieza National Park (official ministry site) Bialowieski Park Narodowy Search for fauna and flora in Man and the Biosphere Species Databases (MAB) Bialowieza National Park — Descriptions of Natural World Heritage Properties Bialowieza Forest MaB Reserve (UNESCO MaB Programme) Bialowieza Forest, Poland, Encyclopedia of Earth Description of the Polish part of the Bialowieza Forest on the website "Encyclopedia of Earth" Photo gallerie Frank Verhart Photo gallerie Haico van der Burgt The Bialowieza Forest Institute

Campaigns for protection of Belovezhskaya Pushcha (Poland)


Society for Protection of the Bialowieza Primeval Forest Lesza: kampania o Puszcze Bialowieska Bialowieza National Park — the WWF project

Official nature protection bodies of Belarus

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment Protection of the Republic of Belarus Brief information about the Ministry. Natural resources of the country. Protection of nature. The scheme of nature protection bodies. Publications. Environment Monitoring National System of the Republic of Belarus Botanical collections of Belarus The Project of the Central Botanical Garden of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus. Description of collections, brief information on the history of their formation, systematical structure and conditions of the storage. 55 collections consisted of 12,000 exhibits are described. Website "Plants of Belarus" Bio-Safety National Coordination Center of the Republic of Belarus National Agency on Tourism Central Research Institute of Water Resources Complex Use

Belarusian organizations and movements


Environmental NGOs of Belarus Eco-Directory The Directory of the Belarusian ecological nongovernmental organizations, initiatives and state environmental bodies. The most complete collection of data, 1998. The Green Bell News of Eco-planet. Green telephone. Library. Belarusian environmental news. Hunting tours in Belarus Belarusian National Parks and Reserves presented in two parts. The hunting places. The hunting tours and trophies. Belarusian Environmental Portal The website "Belarusian Environmental Portal" is created within the framework of the joint project "Development of informational opportunities of the Belarusian ecological movement". Internet-groups of the Belarusian ecological movement, nongovernmental organization "Ecological Initiative "BURENKO", Belarusian representation of the Ecological Fund ISAR and Department of Information of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment Protection of the Republic of Belarus. [new] All about rivers and lakes of the Republic of Belarus The website about water sources of Belarus to help fishermen and people who are interested in Belarusian nature (April, 2006) Nongovernmental Organization "Belarus Birds Life" Next Stop — New Life "The Animals' World" The national newspaper is issued since November, 1997. The founder is the Gomel regional public association of animals' protection "ZOOMIR". The educational and popularizing monthly journal. ReEnergy – Renewable Energy and Economy of Energy in Belarus

Ecological organizations and movements of CIS


Wild Nature Protection Center (Russia) Ecological and Educational centre "Reserve" (Russia) Wildnet - Reserve Information Net International Social-Ecological Union (SEU) Forest.RU — All about Russian Forests ECO-Portal. SEU News Service [new] Civic Movement "Land of Russia is Property of People" Informal public association aimed join legal actions to defend constitutional rights of the citizens of Russia and public interests, first of all of the right on natural resources (April, 2006) Green Dossier Russian Green Cross The Russian branch of the World Wild Fund (WWF) Ecological movement "Green Lightning" for protection of animals The Reference-Information Service "Ecoline" Original sources of information on problems of environment protection and development of the third sector in Russia and CIS The Kiev Ecological and Cultural Centre ÀsEco - Association "Ecological Education" ISAR - Institute of Assistance to the Public Initiatives Dersu Uzala - Ecotourism Development Fund (Russia) Rare and disappearing animals of Russia ngo.ru - Catalogue of the Internet public resources

Foreign organizations, movement and institutions


World Heritage Center UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Programme EuroMAB Network United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) European Environment Agency (EEA) Council of Europe website on environment (NATUROPA) UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP — WCMC) The Portal about Parks in Italy Ramsar Convention on Wetlands World Heritage Convention Convention on Migratory Species (CMS) Access the MABFlora and MABFauna Databases Online Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) The International Council for Science (ICSU) Wetlands International The World Conservation Union (IUCN) International Union of Biological Sciences (IUBS) WWF BirdLife International Green Cross International The Global Community organization The 2000 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species Friends of the Earth Sacred earth Network GREENPEACE EcoNet Climate Change Network EnviroLink - The OnLine Environmental Community Environmental News Network NGONet Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe (REC) United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)