Protected areas of Russia

The status of the protected areas in Russia (the official Russian term Russian: Особо охраняемые природные территории, literally "Specially Protected Natural Areas") is governed by the corresponding law of the Russian Federation^[1]

The law establishes the following categories of protected areas:

• State nature zapovedniks, including biosphere reserves (biosphere zapovedniks)
• National parks
• Nature parks
• State nature zakazniks
• Natural Monuments
• Dendrological parks and botanical gardens
• health recuperation areas and health resorts

See also

• Territory of Traditional Natural Resource Use

References

1. ^ "About Special Protected Nature Areas", a Russian Federation federal law of March 14, 1995.(Russian)