REVIEW OF VLADIMIR BOCHARNIKOV's BOOK "WILDLIFE RESERVES OF RUSSIA (original) (raw)

Bulletin of Udmurt University. Series Biology. Earth Sciences

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. Initia...