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Baikal omul is under threat

Reproduction of Baikal omul is under threat
02/18/2010
Forage base of Lake Baikal can provide up to seven billion larvae. In 2010, the total number of larvae that are generated artificially and naturally, would be several times smaller
Baikal omul is under threat. As stated by Agriculture Minister Alexander Manzanov, unjustified privatization Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Vostsibrybtsentr" served as one of the main reasons for a significant reduction in [...]

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Baikal omul endangered

The federal government turned the program reproduction omul and sell "Vostsibrybtsentr"

Over the hatcheries of Buryatia and Irkutsk region, belonging to Ulan-Ude of "Vostsibrybtsentr" threatened collapse of the core. Without artificial stocking of Lake Baikal omul population in the lake will fall sharply. And, for example, the embassy omul disappears: he no longer plays in the natural environment.

The federal government refused to finance the reproduction of [...]

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Replace the seal hunt photography

Buryat National Park won grantVsemirnogo Wildlife Fund (WWF)
This was reported by the deputy director of the National Park Olga Skosyrskaya
The implementation of the grant is aimed at environmental education of the population and its involvement in environmental work.
- The grant amounts to 445 000 rubles. The project has several big events - the creation of the exposition in the visit center dedicated to the seal, the national park natural complex - said the ecologist. In addition, [...]

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Effect of hunting on the population status of Baikal seals

Seal (Pusa sibirica) - the only mammal endemic relict lake. For very contradictory data, total population of Baikal seals ranges from 67 to 100 000 individuals [3], [12]. Analysis of long-term dynamics (1970-2002 gg.) Its main biological indicators showed the presence of changes in the population: the gradual "aging" [...]

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"Gaffskaya disease" made ​​it to Lake Baikal

On the shores of Lake Baikal from the mouth of the River Turk issued diseased "gaffskoy disease" lake fish from the lake. Kotokel where there was an environmental disaster. Witnesses of the picture were members of the public ecological organization "Turk."
Fish gulls peck. Also found bird bird, picked beast. In addition, according to ecologists from the "Turks", villagers reported dead goby-podkamennikah. This is the Baikal fish, and so [...]

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