Protected areas network in the Murmansk Region: yesterday, today, and tomorrow

Annotation

The article represents a retrospective of nature conservation in the Murmansk Region. It is devoted to the period since the first State Nature Reserves to the present day. Today, the network of Protected Areas (PA) in the Murmansk Region consists of three nature state Reserves, one National Park, two nat-ural parks, 12 protected areas “Zakaznik”, 55 nature monuments and the protected area of the Polar-Alpine Botanical Garden-Institute. The total area of the PA is 1,947,799.4 hectares or 13.4% of the Mur-mansk Region. An effectiveness of the PA was assessed due to the correspondence of the protection regimes and the threats. The authors concluded that effective environmental protection could be realized only in small part of PA, mainly in nature state reserves and national park, whose total area is only 4.2% of the Murmansk Region. At the present level of efficiency, even if it will be possible to achieve a share of Pas equal to 16.4% of the region’s area, it is hardly possible to guarantee the proper level of biodiversity conservation and the stability of the ecosystem of the region.

About authors

Evgeny A. BOROVICHEV: Cand. Sci. (Biol.), Leading Researcher. Institute of the Industrial Ecology Problems of the North of the Kola Science Center of RAS, Apatity, Russia

Viktor N. PETROV: Deputy Director for protected areas development. Administration of regional protected areas of the Murmansk Region, Lovozero, Russia

Olga V. PETROVA: Junior Researcher. Institute of the Industrial Ecology Problems of the North of the Kola Science Center of RAS, Apatity, Russia

Natalia E. KOROLEVA: Cand. Sci. (Biol.), Senior Researcher. Polar-Alpine Botanical Garden-Institute of the Kola Science Center of RAS, Kirovsk, Russia

Keywords

protected areas, rare species, nature conservation, the Murmansk Region

DOI

10.17238/issn2221-2698.2018.32.107

UDC

[58:502](470.21)(045)