Russia Conservation Projects
The Homelands of the Cranes, Zakaznik
Located in the Taldom District of Russia, this area includes a 40,000 hectare wetlands used as a major staging area for Eurasian cranes. CC worked with the Druzhina for Nature Conservation, the International Crane Foundation and the Viroqua Area-Taldom Friendship Association (Wisconsin) in developing a management, education and tourism program for the reserve.
The Druzhina volunteers from Moscow University, who work under the Biodiversity Conservation Center in Moscow, have created museum exhibits for the Klichkov Museum and an area guidebook in Russian. The project has also resulted in some help from the Taldom Administration that provide staff for the protected areas. Although Community Conservation no longer actively participates in this project, Druzhina volunteers continue the program with an annual Crane Festival, lectures and crane and wetland expeditions for school groups in the Taldom and Sergei Posad Districts. An ecological center was created in Taldom as a base for Druzhina volunteers.
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