Birds and People, Russia

Work Areas

Main CEPA work areas

Website, school lessons, ecological camps, ecological competitions, mass media publications and interviews.

On-going projects:

– Moscow State Departments of Nature Use and Environmental Protection, “Development of Animals’ Monitoring System on Protected Areas in Moscow”, 2011-2012;
– MATRA-WWF-Wetlands International, “Establishing a network of educational wetland centres in European Russia to promote wetland conservation through the development and implementation of a СЕРА (Communication, Education, Participation and Awareness) Action Plan”, 2011-2013;
– Annual International competition of ecological school children educational-scientific projects “Nature, Man and Country”, since 2009;
– Moscow State Departments of Nature Use and Environmental Protection, “Birding Cup of the Capital”, since 2010.
– Moscow State Departments of Nature Use and Environmental Protection, “World Wetland Day-2012 on Moscow Protected Areas”;
– Birding Rally – private donations.

Top three successes

UNEP-GEF “Development of a Wetlands Site and Flyway Network for Conservation of the Siberian Crane and Other Migratory Waterbirds in Asia” Project, 2006-2010;
KNIP 2009-061, “Creating DataBase and Interactive Map of Ecological Network in Upper Volga and West Dvina River Basins”, 2009-2010;
MATRA–WWF-Wetlands International, “Conservation of Transboundary Belarussian-Russian and Russian-Ukrainian Wetlands”, 2009-2010: see website