• From the Editorial Board
• CURRENT EVENTS

• Three More Protected Natural Areas in Russia Earn Status of Biosphere Reserve

• Aarhus Convention Goes into Effect
• An International Forum: Investing in Ecology - a Step into the Future
• Expert Committees from the European Council on Eco-Networks Hold Joint Meeting
• A Civil Forum in Russia
• Creating a Regional Network of Protected Natural Areas (in Frames of GEF Biodiversity Conservation Project): Preliminary Results
  
• Tsentralno-Lesnoy Reserve Celebrates its 70^th Anniversary
• Saiga Interdepartmental Meeting
• Biodiversity Conservation Journal Meeting
• Young Ecological Inspector School - 2001
• Student Brigade Helps Reserve
• Happy Birthday!


• DECISION-MAKING ISSUES
• New Russian Land Code Goes into Effect
• New Faces
• Manager of the Year Contest: Winners Announced
  


• NEWS FOR THE SCIENTIFIC DEPARTMENTS OF NATURE RESERVES
• Creating a Survey Map of the Pan-European Ecological Network for Central and Eastern Europe: Preliminary Results
• Computer System to Study Biodiversity
• Kaluga Nature Study Society Re-opens
  
  
• CHARITABLE GRANTS
• UPCOMING SCIENTIFIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL FORUMS



• ECOLOGICAL EDUCATION
• "Muraveinik" Campaign
• Subscription to "Vestnik AsEkO" Methodological Journal on Ecological Education Continues
  
  
• NEWS FROM OUR COLLEGUES
• Developing Tourism in the Tyan-Shan Mountains
• Azerbaijan Celebrates International Animal Protection Day
• Azerbaijan's Green Movement is Looking for Allies
  
  
• PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED
• M. Kozlov. Developmental Stability: The Seeming Simplicity of Methodology (a Review of "The Health of the Environment: Assessment Methodology")
  
  
• YOUR BOOKSHELF
• New and Noteworthy
• S. Saksonov, G. Rozenberg, K. Kudinov. Reserves: Methodological Notes of the Committee on Reserves of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Analysis of Editions for 1996 to 2000
• Humanitarian Ecological Journal
• Kazakhstan Legislation Guide
• Kazakhstan Biological Sciences Journal to be established soon
• Books on Chinese Mammalogy


• ELECTRONIC EDITIONS AND INTERNET
• New web-sites
• Eco-Information Internet-Center Opens in Astrakhan


• MISCELLANEOUS
• ISAR Caspian Program Declaration
• ISAR Moscow Office Offers Tax consultations for Russian NGOs
• Cultural Recreation in Samarovsky Chugas
  
  
• ANNOUNCEMENTS
• E-Mail Addresses of Russian Nature Reserves
  and National Parks

*Only selected articles are presented in this English version of the bulletin. They are hyperlinked.

The Russian version of this issue has been made possible by the Global Environmental Facility (GEF) Project “Biodiversity Conservation in the Russian Federation” and by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

The electronic English version of the bulletin prepared with the support of Svanhovd Environmental Centre (Svanvik, Norway).

“Zapovedniki i Natsionalnye Parki”
(Nature Reserves and National Parks) Bulletin is published by the Biodiversity Conservation Center (BCC) and registered with the Federal Press Committee of the Russian Federation (registration No. 017660 of 05.29.98).

The Russian version of the bulletin is distributed in the former Soviet Union.