Investor Presentaiton
Astrakhan biosphere reserve
The reason for creating the Astrakhan
State Reserve was extremely plight of
wildlife in the Volga delta were almost
completely wiped out large and small
egrets, spoonbill, glossy ibis, mute swan
, many species of gulls, terns, grebes,
hardly meets the following aper, the only
clump of lotus quarter hectare area was
noted only in Damchik lake.
However, already in 1935, 16 years after the creation of a protected
area, Professor BM Zhitkov, leader of the first expedition, on the
result of re-examination, he wrote:
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Species almost disappeared earlier in the
delta, not only appeared in the reserve, but
multiplied to the point and form such clusters
that are not on the protected areas of the
southern marshes could be seen except a few
centuries ago."View entire presentation