REVIEW OF VLADIMIR BOCHARNIKOV's BOOK "WILDLIFE RESERVES OF RUSSIA"

Abstract

At the end of 2021, the Moscow publishing house "Dialogue of Cultures" published a beautifully illustrated, informative, and simply wonderful book, an original, even unique album, an encyclopedic monograph, an illustrated catalog: "Wildlife Reserves of Russia". For the first time for the territories of Russia, the monograph provides calculations of the areas and preservation of the wild nature of our country based on GIS technologies and using computer mapping techniques. The book includes 2 parts: Reserves of Russia (total 118 - from A to Z) and Subjects of the Russian Federation (88 territories, also from A to Z). The author is Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor Vladimir Nikolayevich Bocharnikov, a leading researcher at the Pacific Institute of Geography of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a hunter, organizer of a number of scientific expeditions, Russian ecologist, geographer, international expert on biodiversity, writer. Initiator and leader of a series of international and interdisciplinary projects in the field of study and conservation of biological diversity, conservation of natural habitats of animals and birds. Scientific expert on biogeocenology, forestry, hunting and traditional knowledge of indigenous peoples. Chairman of the working group for the preparation of a new edition of the Red Book of rare and endangered species of animals and plants of the Primorsky Territory. Author of about 30 monographs and about 550 scientific papers. This is a magnificent modern capacious publication (large format - 60x90/8) about all the protected areas of Russia. For the first time in Russia, a printed paper edition appeared, which lists and provides brief information about all the reserves and the main subjects of the Russian Federation (118 reserves located (from Azas to Yalta mountain forest) in 88 regions of the country (from Adygea to the Yaroslavl region)) with highlighted shading large integral areas. The peculiarity of this encyclopedia about the listed reserves is not only in their arrangement in alphabetical order - from “A to Z”, but also in a brief summary of all the latest information available about each of them, as well as the first ever presentation of information about the reserves of our country with using GIS technologies used to calculate the cartographic area of pristine nature, indicating the location on the map-schemes of the location of these territories.