The BCC Publishing House has released Life Tracks by Roman
and Gleb Raigorodetskiy in a special edition of the LiveArctic
Bulletin (No. 1 (14), 2002). This book is about the problems of small
indigenous peoples of the Russian North, in Siberia and the Far East of
Russia. These peoples retain their traditional ecological knowledge: hunting,
fishing, deer breeding and marine animal hunting. For centuries the activities
of these peoples have been tailored to the sensitive northern ecosystems
of which they are an integral part. The traditional use of natural resources
by northern peoples represents a unique cultural heritage that should be
reserved for future generations.
Successful development of these activities depends upon the preservation of the natural habitats of these northern peoples – marine areas, tundra and taiga landscapes. This is where the interests of small indigenous peoples in the North coincide with the interests of conservationists. No wonder this book was published right after areas of traditional nature use were officially designated federally protected areas. This area, no doubt, will be awarded the status of a PNA in the near future.
To order this book, please write to the Biodiversity Conservation Center
at Vavilova Street, 41, office 2.
