For many, 2008 will likely be remembered as the year in which the global financial and subsequent economic crises began. Particularly in recent months, the meltdown has eclipsed all other important events of the past year – the presidential elections in Russia and the United States, the armed conflict in Georgia, and so forth. In Chinese, the word «crisis» is written with two characters, one of which denotes «adversity,» and the other, «opportunity.» For us ecologists, this is particularly true. After all, in tough economic times, the energy- and cost-effective use of resources becomes particularly relevant, previously- approved plans for the next massive-scale construction projects, such as the Evenk Hydroelectric Dam, are reconsidered, and conditions arise for a radical overhaul of industrial technologies. Our country arrived at the crisis prepared, to a considerable degree, to employ it towards a fundamental restructuring of the economy. In January-February of 2008, then-candidate for President D.A. Medvedev placed special attention on the extremely low level of ecological and energy efficiency in our country. In June of 2008, shortly after his inauguration, the president held a conference on this issue. The result was a Decree of the President of the Russian Federation, which for the first time spelled out the task of increasing energy efficiency by 40%. The task was also set to develop legislation that would mandate compensation for negative impact on the environment, as well as to develop a system of incentives for enterprises that adopt modern, ecologically-sound technologies. Not since the era of Perestroika in the second half of the 1980s has such attention been paid, on such high levels of government, to ecological problems in our country. In July, a two-year standoff over the location of several Olympic structures in the mountainous region of Sochi ended in a victory for ecologists. Chairman of the Russian Government V.V. Putin convened a special conference, with our participation, which resulted in a decision to move the alpine Olympic Village and a skiing and bobsledding complex away from the most ecologically sensitive areas of the Sochi National Park. Another conference was held in August by Deputy Prime Minister S.B. Ivanov at which, after ten years of inter-agency disputes, the decision was made to create a unified Protected Area for the conservation of the Amur leopard. Until this time, one zapovednik and two nature sanctuaries had each been governed by different agencies, which made it impossible to conduct an integrated programme for the restoration of this critically endangered population. Of course, despite these striking victories, many problems persist that must be addressed. These include the persistent snafu with regard to forest administration, the reinstitution of ecological assessments for hazardous projects, rigorous monitoring of preparations for the 2014 Olympic Games in Sochi, and the establishment of a zapovednik in a unique corner of Krasnodar Krai – Utrish - which began to suffer the effects of illegal clear-cutting at the very end of last year. We arewww.wwf.ru/report very much dependent on your support – after all, our success is assured by the fact that with each year we are supported by more and more Russian citizens, who consciously sacrifice a part of their means towards the resolution of ecological problems. It is precisely your voice that is essential in preserving our environment. Igor Chestin, CEO WWF-Russia CONTENTS

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For many, 2008 will likely be remembered as the Federation, which for the first time spelled out the task an integrated programme for the restoration of this year in which the global financial and subsequent of increasing energy efficiency by 40%. The task was critically endangered population. economic crises began. Particularly in recent also set to develop legislation that would mandate Of course, despite these striking victories, many months, the meltdown has eclipsed all other important compensation for negative impact on the environment, problems persist that must be addressed. These events of the past year – the presidential elections in as well as to develop a system of incentives for include the persistent snafu with regard to forest Russia and the United States, the armed conflict in enterprises that adopt modern, ecologically-sound administration, the reinstitution of ecological Georgia, and so forth. technologies. assessments for hazardous projects, rigorous In Chinese, the word «crisis» is written with two Not since the era of Perestroika in the second half of monitoring of preparations for the 2014 Olympic Games characters, one of which denotes «adversity,» and the 1980s has such attention been paid, on such high in Sochi, and the establishment of a zapovednik in a the other, «opportunity.» For us ecologists, this is levels of government, to ecological problems in our unique corner of Krasnodar Krai – Utrish - which began particularly true. After all, in tough economic times, the country. to suffer the effects of illegal clear-cutting at the very energy- and cost-effective use of resources becomes In July, a two-year standoff over the location of several end of last year. particularly relevant, previously-approved plans for Olympic structures in the mountainous region of Sochi the next massive-scale construction projects, such ended in a victory for ecologists. Chairman of the We are very much dependent on your support – as the Evenk Hydroelectric Dam, are reconsidered, Russian Government V.V. Putin convened a special after all, our success is assured by the fact and conditions arise for a radical overhaul of industrial conference, with our participation, which resulted in that with each year we are supported technologies. a decision to move the alpine Olympic Village and a by more and more Russian citizens, Our country arrived at the crisis prepared, to skiing and bobsledding complex away from the most who consciously sacrifice a part of a considerable degree, to employ it towards a ecologically sensitive areas of the Sochi National Park. their means towards the resolution fundamental restructuring of the economy. In January- Another conference was held in August by Deputy of ecological problems. It is precisely February of 2008, then-candidate for President D.A. Prime Minister S.B. Ivanov at which, after ten years your voice that is essential in Medvedev placed special attention on the extremely of inter-agency disputes, the decision was made to preserving our environment. low level of ecological and energy efficiency in our create a unified Protected Area for the conservation of country. In June of 2008, shortly after his inauguration, the Amur leopard. Until this time, one zapovednik and IGOR CHESTIN, CEO WWF-RUSSIA the president held a conference on this issue. The two nature sanctuaries had each been governed by result was a Decree of the President of the Russian different agencies, which made it impossible to conduct

ANNUAL REPORT WWF-Russia 2008 3 © Sergey Trepet / WWF-Russia What is WWF? WWF-Russia is one of the largest nationwide environ- mental organizations in Russia. The Fund is part of the international WWF network, which operates in more than 100 countries and unites over 5 million supporters. Our mission is to stop the degradation of the planet’s natural environment and to build a future in which humans live in harmony with nature. To realize this far-reaching and ambitious goal, we set for ourselves two major tasks: preserving biodiversity in the most critical regions of the world, and facilitating the sustainable use of renewable natural resources, as well as contributing to the development of ecologically responsible lifestyles for people. © Viktor Nikiforov / WWF-Russia Russia is home to nearly ten percent of the world's flora and fauna. The most bountiful nature is found in the Caucasus and the Altai-Sayan mountain country, on Kamchatka, and in the Amur basin. But no less valuable to us is the Arctic, its coasts and marine areas, and its distinctive ecosystems so vulnerable to the changing climate. In the Arctic, we work along the Barents and Bering Seas. To ensure maximal efficiency in our work, WWF-Russia opened © Viktor Nikiforov / WWF-Russia © Julia Kalinicheva / WWF-Russia © Wojciech Misiukiewich chapters and project offices in these regions – in WWF’s mission is to stop the Vladivostok, the village of Yelizovo on Kamchatka, degradation of the planet’s Krasnoyarsk, Krasnodar, Murmansk, Arkhangelsk natural environment and to build and Pskov. Our projects span such fields as a future in which humans live in sustainable forestry and fisheries practices, the harmony with nature. Of course, we fight against climate change and increasing energy have neither the power nor the means to efficiency in the Russian economy, work towards protect every inch of Earth's land and seas. «greening» oil and gas policy and the mining As such, WWF has chosen 35 key regions, industry, improving environmental legislation, and where the greatest concentrations of rare making trade and investment more ecologically plant and animal species reside. The Fund's sound. And of course, WWF-Russia's specialists efforts are concentrated precisely in these carry out the traditionally important and relevant places to protect living nature – that is, to work of conserving rare plant and animal species, conserve biodiversity, lessen the negative and creating and supporting specially protected impact of human activity and reduce our areas. Our issue-oriented programmes help us «ecological footprint». to meet concrete challenges on the regional, federal, and international levels. The central office of WWF-Russia is in Moscow. The office employs more than 60 people, responsible for preparing and implementing conservation programmes, engaging with government agencies and the scientific community, maintaining our ties with our supporters, the mass media, and the business sector, and many other fields of work. © Dmitry Kuchma / WWF-Russia © Andrey Shegolev / WWF-Russia

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JANUARY raised at the «Face to Face» charity ball, modern visitor’s centers fishing and other economic activity will be restricted. WWF RUSSIAN CITIZENS FOR THE UKOK PLATEAU! will be appearing in eight different zapovedniks. Р. 28 played an active role in the preparation of these rules, the More than five thousand Russian citizens came to the defense major goal of which is to secure marine living resources for of the protected plateau Ukok. Gazprom had intended to lay MAY future generations of Russians. Р. 22 a gas pipeline through this nature park, situated in the Altai DANGER AVERTED ON THE KAMCHATKA SHELF Mountains, in order to transport Russian gas to China. WWF Ecologists performed an important review of a drilling SEPTEMBER collected signatures in an appeal to Dmitri Medvedev, with project for three pioneer wells on the West Kamchatka WALRUSES UNDER PROTECTION a request to spare this UNESCO World Heritage site. Now, shelf. The company «Kamchatneftegaz» agreed to meet the Thanks to collaboration between WWF, administrative organs Ukok is safe – there are no longer any plans to build a pipeline requirements of a public ecological assessment, and will make and local residents, the world’s largest Pacific Walrus rookery there. Р. 9 serious changes to their plans for the cleanup of oil spills, as has appeared on the Cape of Kozhevnikov, on the Arctic well as improve technologies for the disposal of drilling waste coast of Chukotka. The animals feel safe and secure here: in products. Р. 20 September, several thousand individuals took over the shores, FEBRUARY and all told they may total up to fifty thousand! Р. 13 FIGHT THE SMUGGLERS! JUNE Investigations were launched into large-scale ecological crimes TIMBER COMPANIES DEFEND FOREST INHABITANTS OCTOBER in Primorskii Krai: In 2007, authorities confiscated four pelts In cooperation with WWF-Russia, the Far-Eastern company A NEW HOME FOR THE LEOPARD and more than 60 kg of bones from Siberian tigers, around 900 «Primorskii Mining and Processing Works» began to map out Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin paws of brown and black bears, and 531 Saiga antelope antlers habitats on their leased lands for rare species of plants and signed a decree for the creation of a new specially protected from poachers, intended for shipment to China. Economic animals. This is already the second major enterprise in the natural area (PA) in the Far East – the «Leopard» Federal damages were in excess of five million rubles, and experts from Primorskii Krai to designate specially protected forest plots for Sanctuary. The sanctuary consolidates already-existing PAs WWF participated in the investigations. The harsh sentences the conservation of their inhabitants. for the protection of the most rare cat on the planet – the Amur – up to eight years incarceration in a maximum-security prison leopard. Р. 14 – should serve as an example to all who hope to profit off the JULY natural wealth of the Far East. TOWARDS A «GREEN» OLYMPIAD NOVEMBER Facilities for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi will be erected THE BIRDS WILL LIVE ON MARCH outside the limits of the most valuable natural landmarks – For the first time in Russia, streamers – devices to deter sea birds RUSSIA’S FIRST EARTH HOUR this decision was made by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, in during so-called longline fishing - were used in the Far East. The On the 29th of March, more than six thousand Russian citizens compliance with demands of ecologists. At a meeting on July production of the streamers was the result of a long-term WWF united for WWF’s international event, «Earth Hour» - they 3rd in Sochi, the CEO of WWF-Russia Igor Chestin plainly project, intended to reduce the accidental bycatch of birds. This turned off their lights for one hour, in order to draw the world’s demonstrated all of the dangers posed to the Sochi National simple device reduces bird deaths by 90%, and will help minimize attention to the problem of climate change. WWF contends that Park by Olympic construction. Р. 8 commercial wastes from fishing companies. Р. 21 this goodwill gesture by millions of people will become one step On the 10th of July, the park opened the first enclosed range on the path to raising our awareness, rejecting the consumerist for the quarantine of Persian leopards, brought there from DECEMBER attitude towards nature, and saving energy, not just for one hour Turkmenistan. This represents the completion of the first round EUROPEAN BISON RELEASED INTO THE WILD a year, but every single day. Р. 35 of preparations for a WWF project to reintroduce the leopards This year saw the conclusion of a 12-year phase of WWF into the wild. Р. 12 project to reintroduce the European Bison. Over the course of APRIL twelve years, in the forests of the Oryol, Bryansk, Kaluga and ZAPOVEDNIKS OPEN VISITORS’ CENTERS AUGUST Vladimir Regions, seven groups of Bison were established, The results of WWF’s 10th small grants contest were tallied. QUIET ZONES FOR VALUABLE FISH SPECIES representing a total of more than 150 individuals. This is a Specially protected natural areas participated in the contest, and The Government of the Russian Federation approved rules sufficient foundation for for a healthy population. Now, the now, thanks to the support of Russian businesses and funds for the formation of protected fishing zones. In these zones, population will develop and expand on its own. Р. 10 The animals and the birds, people, the trees, the small mountain flower and the giant Gray whale – we all belong to one big family. We share a common home, Planet Earth, and we are obligated to preserve it, to protect its rivers and forests, its mountains and boundless seas, for our children and the millions of other living beings.

VICTORIA ELIAS, PROGRAMME DIRECTOR Biodiversity conservation © Viktor Nikiforov / WWF-Russia

ur taming of the planet has led to significant dropped by nearly 30%. In spite of the serious measures raising the qualifications of environmental protection changes in the landscape, and to the that mankind has taken, decreasing the rate of these specialists, and developing environmental awareness. O extinction of many plant and animal species. losses has proven very difficult. WWF's work on preserving biodiversity is also a quest Three thousand years ago, for example, before the One of the major tasks of WWF is to preserve the living for harmony between resolving conservation issues, interference of mankind, some 80% of Europe was planet, to provide a stable and secure future for many and respecting the interests of local populations. forestland, the remaining area comprised of meadows, generations. In Russia, we place particular emphasis Additionally, it is the forging of partnerships in the pursuit lakes, mountains and rivers. Today, only 44% of this on those species, whose fates in our country hold of sustainable development. region of the globe is forested. significance on the global scale. These include the In our 15 years of work in Russia, we have implemented In its work, WWF relies on the Living Planet Index – one Siberian tiger, the Amur leopard, the snow leopard, the more than 200 field projects in 47 regions of the of the most important aggregate indicators of the state argali, the polar bear, the European bison, the Siberian country, and invested more than 60 million US dollars of biodiversity. It reflects trends observed in populations crane, the sturgeon, and other species. In order to towards environmental protection. And the most of 1686 vertebrate species around the world – similar to preserve them, it is of the utmost importance to unite the important guarantee of success for WWF programmes the way a consumer price index allows us to monitor the most varied fields of our work: creating new protected has always been, and remains today, the support of our value of a market basket of consumer goods. Over the areas and supporting those already in existence, refining backers and partners – all those who care about the past 35 years, the value of the Living Planet Index has Russian and international law, fighting poaching and fate of Russia's environment. >> BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION

FOR SUSTAINABLE NATURE USE CCAUCASUSAUCASUS FORESTS PROTECTION © Julia Kalinicheva / WWF-Russia

PLANNED PROTECTED AREAS With assistance from WWF, a national standard of forest certification has been introduced in Russia, in accordance with the system of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC). The FSC Facilities for the 2014 Winter Olympics symbol on lumber signifies that the logging companies take in Sochi will be erected outside the limits responsibility for the conservation of particularly valuable of the most valuable natural landmarks forests, restore forests after felling, employ environmentally

© RIA Novosti friendly technologies, provide social benefits to their workers, observe the rights of local populations, and take public opinion THE FIRST OLYMPIC VICTORY – routes, of large mammals. However, in view of the fact that into account when making decisions that affect the interests of FOR NATURE all Olympic facilities are being raised in specially protected local residents. In Russia, voluntary lumber certification allows Facilities for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi will be natural areas (PAs), and in many cases in gross violation not only for the development of the logging industry, but for the erected outside the limits of the most valuable natural of the legal code to boot, much work still lies ahead for preservation of our valuable woodlands as well. landmarks. This decision was made by Chairman of conservationists. For example, the company Gazprom Today, more than 20 million hectares of the nation’s forests are the Russian Government Vladimir Putin, based on the is constructing a VIP resort on the Psekhako Ridge, FSC-certified, and this figure is constantly increasing. Russia well-founded opinions of ecologists. On July 3rd, 2008, without having completed a state ecological assessment. is now second in the world in terms of area of FSC-certified a conference was held on the issue of maintaining The Russian Agency of Ecological, Technological and forests, trailing only slightly behind Canada. And now, we are environmental standards during preparations for the 2014 Nuclear Supervision (Rostekhnadzor) imposed a penalty presented with the possibility of substantially improving the Olympic games in Sochi. There, CEO of WWF-Russia Igor on the contractor, and is now monitoring the issue. Now quality of certification. In the domestic standards, many FSC Chestin detailed to the Prime Minister what sort of damage WWF, together with other environmental organizations, requirements are adapted to Russian conditions, and a number might be inflicted on the environment, should construction is participating in state ecological assessments of future of very important notions are clarified - for example, «high be allowed in the Sochi National Park, a buffer-zone of the Olympic construction projects. WWF is insisting that conservation value forests (HCVF).» The criteria were defined Caucasus State Biosphere Zapovednik. WWF has asserted during construction, the necessary measures be taken to for identifying such forests, as well as the basic principles for on several occasions that the construction of a skiing and compensate for negative impact on the national park’s their conservation. WWF-Russia played the most active role bobsledding complex on the Psekhako Ridge, and of the environment – for example, the establishment of feeding in the development of the standards, and continues to work Olympic Village on the Grushevyi Ridge, will destroy the grounds for hoofed mammals, the creation of crossings on towards the advancement of FSC-certification in our country. feeding and breeding grounds, as well as the migration roads, and other measures to aid animals.

8 ANNUAL REPORT WWF-Russia 2008 Over the past 35 years, the value of the Living Planet Index has dropped by nearly 30%. BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION

TTHANKSHANKS FORFOR YOURYOUR SSUPPORT!UPPORT! CREATION AND SUPPORT OF PROTECTED AREAS AARKHANGELSKRKHANGELSK RREGIONEGION FOR A LIVING UKOK

ZAPOVEDNIK TERRITORIES INSPECTED WWF Specialists conducted a far-reaching study of the system of protected areas in the Arkhangelsk Region. They determined which of these PAs conserve nature most effectively, and which exist solely on paper. Significant work is being conducted in the Pinezhsky Zapovednik, the Arkhangelsk portion of the Vodlozersky National Park, and a number of other protected territories. As it turns out, many forest © Denis Bogomolov / WWF-Russia sanctuaries lost their conservation status long ago,

and are now clear-cut with saplings growing in their © Andrey Shegolev / WWF-Russia In February of 2008, WWF and other non-profit place. Around half of all sanctuaries serve mainly to organizations rallied in defense of the Ukok conserve species of animals and birds with economic PROTECTING KEY BIOTOPES Quiet Zone nature park in the Altai Republic. and sporting value. At the same time, there are far WWF-developed methods for identifying key biotopes – Ecologists were supported by more than 5200 more valuable natural areas in the Region, which are small plots of forest possessing special natural importance Russian citizens: they signed an appeal to Dmitri practically unprotected – for example, unique old- – have been successfully incorporated into forestry Medvedev (then the First Deputy Chairman of growth forests – which are the region’s true natural practices in the Arkhangelsk Region. Intensive logging is the Government of the Russia Federation and heritage. Results of the study will have been presented underway in the region, resulting in the disruption of habitats Chairman of the Board of Directors of Gazprom) to the government of the Arkhangelsk Region, and will for both rare and ordinary plant and animal species of the with a call to change the route of a gas pipeline, be used as a basis to create new PAs, and to improve taiga. Logging will be forbidden in key biotopes. WWF, intended to supply Russian gas to China. In spite those that already exist. together with our colleagues in scientific organizations, has of the existence of alternative routes, the pipeline released practical guidelines to help loggers and timber was slated to extend through a protected natural companies accurately identify such forest plots. Experts area, in direct violation of Russian law and the from WWF and the Pomor State University also conducted a Russian Federation’s international obligations. training course for specialists from the Forest Department of People raised their voices for Ukok, both at a the Arkhangelsk Region. specially organized photo exhibit in Moscow, and at universities, museums, dormitories, and factories in Krasnoyarsk. Thousands of signatures were gathered through the website www.wwwf.ru/ukok. The «voice of the people» was heard – the construction of the pipeline no longer appears in Gazprom’s plans. © Nikolay Delvin / WWF-Russia

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RETURN OF THE BROWN BEARS Brown bears have returned to the Kambal’naya River in the Southern Kamchatka Sanctuary, having not been observed there for more than 10 years. This protected area is widely regarded as the bears’ native home – nowhere else on Kamchatka had they been observed in such high numbers. But recently, the illegal killing of bears grew to «commercial» scales: each year, in the territory of the sanctuary alone, poachers were

© Viktor Jivotchenko / WWF-Russia shooting tens of brown bears. They would set snares on the bears’ paths, and shoot the animals point-blank, chasing them A GIFT FROM WWF FOR THE on all-terrain vehicles. Professionals were needed in order to

© Igor Gavrilov / Greenpeace YEAR OF THE BULL protect the animals, but they were in dreadfully short supply, This year saw the conclusion of a 12-year phase due in no small part to a lack of resources. The result was PIPELINE THREATENS of WWF project to reintroduce the European Bison tragic – the bears left the banks of the Kambal’naya. Beginning GRAY WHALES – the most ancient bovine – to the wilderness of in the fall of 2007, WWF began to support the efforts of the For several years, WWF has fought to prevent oil companies European Russia. In October of 2008, 10 European security division of the Kronotsky Zapovednik, and the situation from conducting work off the coasts of Sakhalin that may pose bison were released in the Kaluga Region. In the noticeably improved. Instances of poaching in the zapovednik a great danger to Gray whales. However, in spite of numerous years since the project’s inception, 7 groups of bison have become extremely rare, and life for the brown bears has protests by the Russian and international communities, have been established in the forests of the Oryol, become more peaceful. However, the group currently fighting ExxonMobil plans to extend a pipeline through Pil’tun Bay this Bryansk, Kaluga and Vladimir Regions, totaling more against poachers can control no more than 30% of the total winter, as part of an expansion of the «Sakhalin-1» project. than 150 individuals. Such a quantity of animals is territory. For effective protection of the bears, at least three such The only chance to save this most unique population is to sufficient for establishing the foundations of a healthy groups would be needed. organize a maritime sanctuary in the northeast of the island. population, which will now develop and grow on its Upon analyzing multi-year scientific data collected during own. At first, the project to reintroduce the bison was field research on Sakhalin, WWF experts established the financed through international grants. In 2004, the ecological and economic grounds for the creation of a nature Multon company, one of Russia’s largest purveyors sanctuary. As envisioned by ecologists, the sanctuary will of juices, took on WWF initiative. In addition, «Adopt a encompass Pil’tun Bay, which provides abundant food for the European Bison», a joint programme of WWF and the whales. The new PA will also protect areas whose resources Prioksko-Terrasny Nature Reserve, has already been were traditionally used by the local population. The project active for 5 years. Its participants «adopt» newborn is awaiting approval in the Ministry of Natural Resources and and adult bison, and finance their yearly upkeep. Ecology and other agencies, and we hope that it will be given In 2009, WWF plans to support the surviving wild a state ecological assessment in the near future. population of European Bison in the Caucasus, in the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania. © Viktor Nikiforov / WWF-Russia

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PLANNED PROTETED AREAS ● WWF has also prepared the necessary paperwork for expanding the territory of the Erzi Federal Zapovednik in the Republic of Ingushetia, and submitted it to a state ecological PPLANNEDLANNED PPROTECTEDROTECTED AAREASREAS assessment. Similar work, preparing the legal basis for the creation of the Tliaratinskii section of the Dagestansky Zapovednik, is nearing completion.

© Tatyana Lysenko / © Tatyana North Caucasus Environmental Watch ● WWF developed the ecological and economic grounds for the creation of an Utrish Zapovednik in Krasnodar Krai, and Thanks to the work of ecologists and the proactive presented the documents to the Russian Ministry of Natural stance of citizens, the felling of forests and the Resources. The zapovednik would preserve areas of unique construction of roads has been put on hold in the Mediterranean landscape. Additionally, documents have been Bol'shoi Utrish regional sanctuary in Anapa. WWF, prepared to expand the territory of the Sochi National Park. together with other non-governmental organizations, sent an official letter to the administration of AALTAI-SAYANLTAI-SAYAN the Krasnodar Krai, the Federal Service for the Supervision of Natural Resources, and the ● In 2008, experts at WWF developed the ecological and Krasnodar Krai Department of Natural Resources, as economic grounds for the creation of the Sailiugemski well as to Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology

© Sergey Trepet / WWF-Russia National Park in the Altai Republic, and passed the paperwork Yuri Trutnev. Around 5000 people signed a demand ● The latest in a series of steps has been taken towards the on to the Russian Ministry of Natural Resources for approval. to cease this gross violation of environmental unification of the protected areas of the Western Caucasus: This region, the interfluve area of the Argut and Katun’ rivers, law. However, in spite of the fact that criminal a «biosphere polygon» will be created in the Teberdinsky is home to more Red Book birds and animals than any other proceedings have been initiated based on article Zapovednik, which will incorporate two of its territories – the place in Siberia. The establishment of a protected area will 260 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation Teberdinsky and Arkhyzsky sections – as well as part of the allow for the organized conservation of Russia's largest groups (illegal felling of forest ranges), the threat to the Kavkazsky Zapovednik. A biosphere polygon is a territory of Snow leopards (no less than 15-20 cats) and Argali (around sanctuary persists. As such, WWF calls on the of regulated economic activity, used to develop methods of 500 sheep), as well as the Siberian ibex (most numerous government to expedite the creation of the Utrish sustainable natural resource use. For several years, WWF in the Altai-Sayan Ecoregion, numbering no less than 2300 Federal Zapovednik on that territory. Zapovednik specialists, as well as other non-profit organizations, scientists, individuals) and rare bird species – the Golden eagle, the status for this small section of the Black Sea coast zapovednik staff and institutions of higher education, have Bearded vulture, the Saker falcon, and the Altai snowcock. would allow for the preservation of a mediterranean been preparing the necessary documents for the creation To this end, WWF is pursuing the necessary approvals for the landscape found nowhere else in Russia. As this of such a polygon in the Western Caucasus. The resulting transfer of lands and preparing the legal documentation. report was being prepared, the Russian Ministry materials have already passed a state ecological assessment, of Natural Resources, at the request of WWF, and the Ministry of Natural Resources has produced a announced a decision to follow through with the Governmental Order on the creation of a Teberdinsky preservation of these lands as the Utrish Zapovednik Zapovednik biosphere polygon. That order is now awaiting the in the first quarter of 2009. necessary departmental approvals.

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LEGISLATION FOR NATURE CREATION AND SUPPORT KKAMCHATKAAMCHATKA / CONSERVATION OF THE PROTECTED AREAS BBERINGERING SSEAEA

ECO-CENTER OPENS ITS DOORS Through the support of WWF and the European Union, the Koryaksky Zapovednik ethno-ecological center has opened on Kamchatka. This entailed a complete overhaul of the premises (the visitor’s center is located in a school, in the village of Tilichiki, Koryakia) and the outfitting of an exhibition hall and a classroom. As children are not interested in museum artifacts behind glass, the new center allows visitors to open cases, handle natural materials, and rearrange animal-shaped magnets on an interactive map of the region. The classroom is outfitted with all the necessary equipment for ecology-themed activities. Many organizations assisted in the creation of the eco-center, including workers from WWF and the Koryaksky Zapovednik, the fund «Koryakgeoldobycha – Social Partner of the Koryak Autonomous Okrug,» the company Almaztransstroi

© Julia Kalinicheva / WWF-Russia LLC, and others. The project was of special significance for

WWF: not only did we finance the creation of the center, but © Vladimir Travnikov / WWF-Russia PROJECT FOR A PROTECTED AREA employees of our Kamchatka chapter personally participated CODE DEVELOPED in its design and construction as well. A FIRST «HOME» FOR THE LEOPARD In 2008, WWF-Russia, in conjunction with leading specialists A first quarantine area was built in July in the Sochi National in the field of environmental law, developed a new draft of Park, at the center for reintroduction of the Persian leopard. the Federal Law «on specially protected natural areas.» The enclosure will become home to the eventual ancestors This is necessary for a number of reasons, first among them of a free-ranging population of Persian leopards in the the many shortcomings of the current law. It is also needed Russian Caucasus, to be imported from Turkmenistan in because, since the time of the law’s ratification in 1995, there 2009. There are plans to introduce 4-6 individuals over a have been significant changes to Russian civil, land, water, 2-year period, which after a period of quarantine will move to and forestry legislation regulating, among other things, the the rehabilitation range where they are expected to adapt to operations of protected areas. One important quality of the their new living conditions. Those cubs born in the range will new draft is that it defines the legal standing of those PAs found a new Russian leopard population in the Caucasus, with international status, and includes them in the system expected to total 30-50 individuals. The companies Rosa of Russian protected territories. A draft of the bill has been Khutor and Vympelcom (brand name «Beeline»), as well as submitted to the State Duma of the Russian Federation. WWF-Germany, donated to this project. The project for the restoration of the leopard population in the Northern Caucasus also received support at the governmental level: it is part of

© Darya Chernenko / WWF-Russia the official ecological agenda accompanying the programme for the 2014 Olympiad.

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developed a project to establish the «Cape of Kozhevnikov natural landmark,» and passed it on to the government of the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug. The project has already received positive marks in a state ecological assessment, and now a government decree is being prepared for the creation of the new protected territory. The departure of the walruses did little to diminish the Patrol’s workload: polar bears arrived to the village of Ryrkaipii, where they too feel at home. Thanks to the support of the Coca- Cola Company, «Bear Patrols» are operating in 13 coastal communities in Chukotka and the Sakha Republic, and, for the first time ever, on the Taymyr Peninsula (in the Great Arctic Zapovednik) and in the Nenets Autonomous Okrug.

© Varvara Semyonova / WWF-Russia © Varvara In 2008, WWF spearheaded the «Conservation Strategy for Polar Bears in Russia» project. Soon, the resulting document

THE «BEAR PATROL» PROTECTS will be handed over to the Russian Ministry of Natural © Gennady Shalikov / WWF-Russia WALRUSES Resources for review. More than 20 thousand walruses have gathered on the Cape HUNTING LAWS CODIFIED of Kozhevnikov, on the Arctic coast of Chukotka. The cape is Yet another step has been taken towards conserving home to one of the world’s largest Pacific walrus rookeries. In biological diversity in the Far East: a law has been the fall of 2007, for the first time since observations began, the passed in Primorsky Krai on the management of sport walruses appeared on the cape after local residents organized and subsistence hunting, as well as a goal-oriented a security regime for animals. This was done with the support programme for the krai, intended to protect fauna from of WWF. The fall season of 2008 was anxiously awaited - 2008 through 2010. This was made possible thanks would the walruses return to the coast for the second year to active cooperation between WWF, the Primorsky in a row? Schoolchildren and adults – indigenous residents Krai Wildlife Service, the Primorsky Krai Hunter’s of the village of Ryrkaipii – joined to clean up the rookery, in Association, and the krai’s legislative assembly. Now order to prepare it for the arrival of their anticipated «guests.» licensed hunters, of which there are more than 40 And local authorities didn’t just stand idly by: officials from thousand, have gained a legal foundation for their the village also did their part for the cause. And when the first activities, and the krai’s environment – a guarantee of walruses appeared, the «Bear Patrol» task force, created by rational use of its rich resources and protection for its WWF to protect and monitor polar bear populations, began a game animals. round-the-clock vigil. For more than two months, the coastline was monitored: the number of resting animals was in constant flux, reaching as many as 20 thousand individuals.

With the support of local residents, WWF specialists Semyonova / WWF-Russia © Varvara

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MONGOLIAN GAZELLES SAVED Climate change has directly affected the steppes at the headwaters of the Amur River: due to a record drought at the

© Zov Taigi beginning of summer 2008, herds of thousands of Mongolian gazelles moved northward in search of water. In the Chita A NEW CHANCE FOR Region, a border fence blocked their route. Thanks to financial THE AMUR LEOPARD support from WWF, staff from the Daursky Zapovednik and The «Leopard Federal Nature Sanctuary» (around border guards managed to clear a path for the migrants, 170 thousand hectares in area) has been created construct temporary watering holes, and provide the in Primorsky Krai in the Far East to protect the animals protection from poachers. Thousands of Red Book planet’s most rare cat. The sanctuary consolidates animals were saved, and an enormous «Dzerenovy (gazelle) the Barsovyi Federal Sanctuary and the Borisovskoe Sanctuary» has been proposed for their new calving grounds. Plato Zoological Sanctuary. As early as 1999, WWF had developed its «Strategy for the Conservation of the Amur Leopard,» and the organization has been

© Dmitry Kuchma / WWF-Russia seeking a consolidated protected area ever since. The Fund had proposed that the Kedrovaia Pad’ WINTER FOOD STORES FOR Zapovednik, as well as the Barsovyi and Borisovskoe HOOFED MAMMALS Sanctuaries, all be placed under the jurisdiction of the Winter food stores have been prepared to ensure that Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology. Previously, ungulates, prey for both the Siberian tiger and the Amur they had been administered by different agencies, leopard, do not suffer in the event of catastrophic snowstorms. which made it impossible to conduct a unified The stores were prepared in the hunting reserves of Primorsky programme for the leopard’s restoration. In 2006, Krai, and amounted to 800 hectares of feeding grounds and Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Government 950 bales of soybean hay. This programme of «mobilization Sergei Ivanov gave his support to WWF proposal. plans» was set in motion to aid the wild boar, red deer, Sika At the end of October 2008, by decree of the deer, and the Siberian roe deer. Hunting reserve districts with Government of the Russian Federation, Kedrovaia Pad’ large ungulate populations administer 2.5 million hectares of and the Leopard Federal Sanctuary came under the primary habitat for the tigers and leopards. jurisdiction of the Russian Ministry of Natural Resources. During a visit to the krai by Vladimir Putin, ecologists convinced him of the necessity to develop a national

programme for the Amur leopard’s conservation, Kirillyuk / WWF-Russia © Vadim analogous to the already-existing programme for the Siberian tiger. The entire package of WWF proposals has been passed on to the Government for review.

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FOR A LIVING BIKIN WWF, in conjunction with Tribal commune «Tiger» and the Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North and Far East, has begun a large-scale project to preserve the unique environment of the Bikin River. The project aims to develop a model territory, based on traditional land use practices of the Udege people. A collaborative effort between specialists from the Fund and the local population towards protecting the land is already operating in the region, as well as a tracking school, to train future hunters. Work towards the rebirth of the national culture and craft has already begun in the village of Krasny

Yar. The Udege were granted the right to lease 1.3 million © Vladimir Filonov / WWF-Russia hectares of land for hunting. Documents are being drawn up for the lease of all territory on the Bikin on which pine nuts are PINE NUTS FOR PEOPLE harvested. AND ANIMALS ALIKE

© Dmitry Kuchma / WWF-Russia With the help of local residents of the Primorsky Krai, WWF managed to fully halt logging on two territories 49 YEARS OF PAYBACK (totaling around 120 thousand hectares) used for In 2008, WWF specialists conducted around 30 independent the commercial harvesting of pine nuts. Areas of assessments of goods derived from plants and animals, commercial pine nut harvesting are suffering from seized on the Russian-Chinese border. Based on two expert clear-cutting, which in the Far East has devolved into testimonies after the confiscation of a shipment of 20 kg of wild a legally sanctioned form of forest poaching. These ginseng, and another shipment of 480 bear paws, tiger pelts are, after all, the last remaining slivers of true cedar and bones, 9 smugglers were censured, and criminal cases forest, in which both man and animal feed. Abundant were opened. The criminals received harsh punishments: all with pine nuts and minimally disturbed by economic together they were sentences to 49 years incarceration. activity, these territories have particularly high potential for the development of integrated non-lumber forest use – both for the procurement of food and medicinal resources, and for tourism. © Vladimir Filonov / WWF-Russia

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WWF IN CENTRAL ASIA In 2008, the most significant successes of WWF’s Central Asian programme were related to a project for which official funding ran out 3-4 years prior. UNESCO nominated the

steppes and lakes of northern Kazakhstan as the first World © Julia Kalinicheva / WWF-Russia © WWF-Russia Heritage Site in Central Asia. The parliament of the Kyrgyz In Vladivostok on September 28th, 2008, Republic ratified an Environmental Code – all users of SANCTUARIES DEFENDED participants in the Day of the Tiger festivities natural resources are now legally bound to take questions of With contribution from WWF, the elimination of two received a real treat from WWF – the organization environmental protection into account, and act in accordance regional fishing sanctuaries in the Murmansk Region invited famous journalist, scientist, and member with the ECONET concept. ECONET is a unified ecological – Ponoysky and Varzugsky – has been prevented. In of WWF-Russia Board of Trustees Nikolai network in Central Asia, developed in the frame of GEF-UNEP- 2008, the heads of several municipalities suggested Drozdov. He arrived to Primorskii Krai as part WWF project. It is intended to unify isolated areas of pristine liquidating these PAs, which in their view restricted of a delegation of environmental organizations nature into an integrated system, and includes zapovedniks, the free movement of local residents and the – the Save the Tiger Fund, the Amur Fund, «ecological corridors» and «buffer zones» (territories in development of local small business. The Ponoy and the International Fund for Animal Welfare, the which economic activity is permitted within certain limitations). Varzug rivers, meanwhile, are true gems of the Kola International Union for Conservation of Nature, Bureaucratic processes move slowly, especially in places region – in their pristine environment lives the largest and the World Bank, who together with WWF where parliament is frequently reelected, and the government school of Atlantic salmon in Russia and, likely, the supported the Global Tiger Initiative. The frequently reorganized. The major efforts of WWF all these world. Initiative is an international programme to protect years have been focused on ensuring that our materials do WWF experts categorically opposed the elimination the planet's tigers, which began in Washington not get buried under the weight of these reorganizations. And of the sanctuaries, and made their position known in June of 2008. Drozdov spoke about tigers today – we declare a victory! to every government agency, from local authorities and cedar trees, both at the festivities, and WWF projects to restore Bactrian deer populations are to the upper echelons of power. The essence of the at a round table discussion on improving continuing successfully in Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan argument is this: only protected status can serve as coordination among the krai's environmental and Kazakhstan. Saiga antelope populations are increasing a check on the growth of unsupervised tourism, and protection agencies, in order to protect the rare in Kazakhstan, and new groups of Goitered gazelles have thus that status must remain in place. Of course, cat and its habitat. The authority and personal been established in Tajikistan and Turkmenistan. And the several regulations require adjustments – for example, charm of Nikolai Nikolaevich, known to millions condition of Turkmenistan’s Persian leopard population (thanks the annulment of an existing rule under which local of TV viewers from the programme «The World to our work, the healthiest population in the species’ entire residents must attain permission from the Office of of Animals,» are enormous, and each word he range) has allowed the animals to be safely «shared» with Protected Areas in order to change their residence uttered touched not only the minds, but also the the Russian Caucasus for the reconstitution of a free-ranging from one fishing village to another. hearts of his listeners. population.

The most important guarantee of success for WWF programmes has always been, and remains today, 16 ANNUAL REPORT WWF-Russia 2008 the support of our backers and partners – all those who care about the fate of Russia’s environment. We all have but one planet, and its capacity to support life for an enormous variety of organisms, humans included, is great. This capacity is, at the same time, very finite. Today, the demands of mankind for the «services» of Earth vastly exceed the planet’s means: we are stepping out of the «ecological» boundaries, inflicting damage on all living things, and in the end, on our own wellbeing.

EVGENY SHVARTS, DIRECTOR OF CONSERVATION POLICY Reducing the «ecological foot- print» of mankind © Olga Pegova / WWF-Russia

n recent years, along with the traditional work of the Earth’s ability to provide us with its «services» by almost 30%. of a Russian is 3.7 hectares, i.e. we need 1.76 of the Earth. conserving natural biodiversity, we have been faced The situation is analogous to the raging financial crisis, in which the Residents of poor nations used only 1 hectare. I with a second and equally significant task. We must volume of credit and borrowing no longer reflected peoples’ ability Why does WWF raise the issue of reducing man’s «ecological contain the «ecological footprint» of mankind, such that to pay in the real economy. footprint»? The answer is simple: there is a direct link between the biosphere can compensate for the impact of economic The bulk of WWF’s work towards the conservation of rare our impact on the planet and the conservation of biodiversity. activity, and preserve its stability. The «ecological footprint» is species and biodiversity is conducted in the developing world, When more than 1/3 of Earth’s terrestrial land is profoundly a relative concept, which reflects man’s use of the biosphere’s while work to reduce man’s «ecological footprint» is most transformed, then based on Charles Elton’s pyramid of resources. It is expressed in terms of the area (in hectares) pertinent to developed and rapidly developing countries. numbers concept it becomes clear that almost all large of biologically productive land and marine areas, necessary The activities of WWF are directed towards the curtailment predatory mammals (for example, big cats), birds (accipiters for the production of the resources we consume and for the of overconsumption and wasteful use of natural resources and eagles) and herbivores (European bison, saiga antelope) storage and processing of our wastes. in these countries, or being carried out on behalf of these face the threat of extinction. The consequences of that, for By the end of the 1980’s, the combined impact of humans on countries beyond their borders. In 2005, the footprint of a the biosphere and for mankind, are more dangerous than the the biosphere began to exceed the planet’s capacity to stabilize resident in developed countries amounted to 6.4 hectares, or most disastrous global financial crisis. and regulate itself. Data from 2005 indicates that, on average, our 3 times larger than the biosphere can afford! The «ecological Below you will see what WWF is doing to ward off global ecological footprint «covers» 2.7 hectares, while the planet is footprint» in middle-income countries (this group includes ecological catastrophe – so that the «footprint» of Russians only able to allot 2.1 hectares to each of us. This means that the Russia) amounted to 2.2 hectares per person, or 0.1 hectares and the quality of economic growth in our country do not impact of the global economy and the activities of mankind exceed over the planet’s average capacity. The average footprint threaten the planet’s biosphere. >> REDUCING THE «ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT» OF MANKIND

FFOROR TTHEHE SSUSTAINABLEUSTAINABLE USEUSE OFOF NATURALNATURAL RESOURCESRESOURCES Conference on Climate Change is set to take place in Copenhagen. How can state management WWF has prepared several analytical studies and is working of environmental protection be actively through the mass media, in an effort to show that improved? reaching an ecologically stringent and scientifically grounded Answers to this question can be found in a study conducted accord serves the interests of Russia. Central to this is a by the World Bank, with the active participation of WWF. choice of development strategies for the country. Specialists Specialists from WWF invited leading independent experts at the Fund advocate a strategy called «low-carbon Russia,» from scientific and non-governmental organizations, as well in which the growth of greenhouse gas emissions is slowed as from the business sector, to evaluate the management at first, and starting in 2020-2025, begins to decrease. The of environmental protection in today’s Russia. The results stabilization of emissions levels is of particular importance of this study were widely discussed by leading scientists to the technological development of our country, seeing and experts from scientific organizations, key ministries as how, since the year 2000, emissions have been slowly and agencies, the Russian Union of Industrialists and but steadily increasing. «Low-carbon Russia» means the Entrepreneurs, the Russian Chamber of Commerce, and the full implementation of government plans to cut energy business sector. Two conferences were held at the Institute consumption (heat and energy expenditures per unit of GDP) of Contemporary Development (INSOR Russia). The study by 40% in all sectors of the economy, raising the share of contains recommendations for the improvement of state energy from renewable sources (not including large-scale environmental protection, for environmental conservation and hydro) to 5%, then 10%, and the almost total elimination of natural resource legislation, for increasing the competitiveness gas flaring. To quote Russian President Dmitri Medvedev, «we of the Russian economy and business sector, and for the have very large stores of fossil fuels, but at the same time, we development of economic mechanisms that encourage must work towards energy efficiency in our economy. This environmental responsibility. These recommendations are will contribute to the resolution of the global issue of climate directed to the President of the Russian Federation, D.A. change and the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.» Medvedev.

FFORESTSORESTS CONSERVATIONCONSERVATION FFOROR TTHEHE SSUSTAINABLEUSTAINABLE USEUSE OFOF NATURALNATURAL RESOURCESRESOURCES Economic planning in the forests A new international agreement In 2008, specialists from WWF’s «Pskov model forest» on the issue of climate change project created a «system of economic planning» for forest is needed use, based on new approaches to woodland management. WWF actively supports the development of a new international Applying this model allows for the precise planning of agreement on the problem of climate change, which, foresting activity in the short-term, as well as 100 years beginning in 2013, should replace the Kyoto Protocol. Its into the future. It allows logging companies to conduct adoption is scheduled for the end of 2009, when the UN their business with the greatest economic efficiency, and www.sxc.hu

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More than 300 Muscovites gathered on September 8th, 2009, for the symbolic 53 Russian companies have joined the Association of event «A Farewell to Environmentally Responsible Producers of Forest Products Plastic Bags,» organized (FTN Russia), created under the auspices of WWF. by WWF and famous artist Andrei Bartenev. The event aimed to draw peoples' attention to thin plastic proposes various methods of logging for even small forest Council of Federal Forestry Agency («Rosleskhoz») bags, which Muscovites use extensively in their plots, as well as timeframes for various types of felling prevented the registration of new logging rules by the daily lives, and which harm the environment and forest restoration. This new system also helps identify Russian Ministry of Justice. The draft of these bylaws to and cannot be recycled. Plastic bags can be the most economically beneficial alternatives to logging. the Forestry Code turned out to be even more ecologically replaced with bags made from durable, long- Taken as a whole, use of the «Pskov model» guarantees dangerous than the code itself: it provided a legal basis lasting materials, which are not only practical a substantial increase in profits from forestry, while at the for logging in any location, even those under the highest and ecologically sound, but can also be striking same time preserving the beauty and biodiversity of forests in federal protection. It raised the possibility of clear-cutting expressions of art and fashion. Amidst the areas of intensive clearing. in protected forests located around cities, recreation sounds of drums, passers-by and people in areas, rivers and other valuable natural assets, whose dresses fashioned from plastic bags danced in a conservation is essential to providing a sound environment circle around musicians of the group Marakatu. FFORESTSORESTS CCONSERVATIONONSERVATION for mankind. The document was reworked in accordance A display of shopping tote bags stood nearby, as with the recommendations of environmental organizations well as a WWF table where one could receive a Logging rules reconsidered and logging companies, and only then, registered with the badge for participating in the event. WWF, together with other non-governmental organizations Ministry of Justice. and logging companies associated with the Public Ecological

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WWF unites logging companies WWF-Russia works actively with the timber industry. In 2008,

the Russian Association of Environmentally Responsible Artyukhin / WWF-Russia © Yuri Timber Producers, created by WWF, grew to 53 member- companies. These large Russian enterprises contribute a significant share of all wood product exports (for example, 65% of all cellulose and paper produced in the country, and 15% of all lumber). They voluntarily committed themselves to observing principles of sustainable forest management and certifying their leases of forest plots in accordance with international guidelines. © Alexander Evgrafov / WWF-Russia

MMARINEARINE CCONSERVATIONONSERVATION On the 27th of May in the center of Moscow, an unusual ceremony took place – a «Farewell to «Walls of death» to be outlawed Salmon.» An enormous jar of preserved salmon The use of drift nets, which entangle marine mammals and was brought out to mournful music, as the parting birds, will soon be forbidden in Russian fisheries. As this words were delivered – that we will lose the report was being written, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin ordered Kamchatka salmon forever, if we do not bring a halt that the head of the Russian Fishing Agency Andrei Krainiy, to oil and gas projects. Evgeny Shvartz, director of Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology Yuri Trutnev, and environmental policy for WWF, cooked the salmon in head of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Sergei Lavrov a skillet, and onto it poured petroleum. Throughout prepare a proposal for the termination of the use of «walls the demonstration, passers-by left their signatures of death.» Drift nets gained this name for a reason: they on an appeal to the Government, calling for a extend for several kilometers, blocking the migration paths of moratorium on oil drilling on the West-Kamchatka Pacific salmon from the ocean to their spawning rivers. The shelf. The day culminated in bidding «farewell to the nets catch and kill not only salmon, but marine mammals as salmon» – the mock fish were forever washed away well: whales, dolphins, and seals, as well as such rare birds in oil. The government is now developing a series of as the short-tailed albatross. Drift-net fishing has negative A first array of streamers has been measures to protect living resources in the Sea of social consequences as well: floating nets prevent fish from manufactured on Kamchatka - these Okhotsk. reaching the shores, where coastal fisherman operate. WWF, devices deter seabirds from baited indigenous minority groups of Kamchatka and the «preserve hooks during longline fishing salmon together» coalition have been working towards a ban on drift net fishing for many years, and since December of

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2008, WWF has been gathering signatures on its website. And now, thanks to the combined efforts of many, including supporters of WWF, Russia is rejoining the rest of the world, © Dmitriy Shpilenok / WWF-Russia where a UN resolution prohibiting large-scale drift-net fishing is © Katya Pal / WWF-Russia already in force. FFOROR ENVIRONMENTALENVIRONMENTAL RRESPONSIBILITYESPONSIBILITY MMARINEARINE CCONSERVATIONONSERVATION ININ THETHE OILOIL AANDND GGASAS IINDUSTRYNDUSTRY KKAMCHATKAAMCHATKA / BERINGBERING SSEAEA MMARINEARINE CCONSERVATIONONSERVATION Fishing Certification For several years, WWF has been Salmon is more valuable Good for the birds, and profitable advocating the principles of sustainable than oil for the fishermen fisheries to fishing companies. In 2008, four Together with other environmentalist organizations, A first array of streamers has been manufactured on small companies (three on Kamchatka and WWF expanded a campaign to protect Kamchatka’s Kamchatka. These devices deter seabirds from baited hooks one in Khabarovsk Krai) underwent preliminary certification, environment from oil drilling. Rosneft planned to during longline fishing. The streamers - long lines of bright based on the standards of the Marine Stewardship Council begin exploration and drilling for «black gold» on the plastic flagging - are attached to the sterns of fishing vessels, (MSC). In Russia, it is usually understood that ecological West-Kamchatka shelf, which would have threatened and dragged on both sides of a baited fishing net. This simple certification is a mark of a product’s quality – a guarantee that the living resources of the area, including one third contraption reduces the bycatch of birds by 90%. The invention use of the product will not cause any harm to the consumer’s of the country’s fish stocks. Ecologists appealed to and organization of production of the streamers was a result health. But it is no less important how the fish was caught and the President, the Government, and deputies of the of a WWF project, which also demonstrated the economic processed, and where the processing of the fish took place. State Duma of the Russian Federation with a request benefits of ecological responsibility: streamers help fishing Only a full evaluation of the ecological safety the fish’s path, to place a moratorium on the project to develop the companies to reduce commercial waste. Without their use, 2% from the ocean to the shop, can guarantee minimal harm to West-Kamchatka shelf, until preventative measures are of hooks in every net sink to the bottom without bait, and return the environment and the conservation of the wealth of the taken to ensure the ecological and food security of the without fish. As a result, the Far Eastern longline fleet loses seas and oceans. country. Experts from WWF developed a framework 30 million rubles annually. Participants in the project included In Russia, for the time being, only the first steps have been law «On the status and zoning of the Sea of Okhotsk,» the fishing companies Akros Close Corporation, Tymlatskii taken on the path to marine certification. WWF accorded that should define areas of the shelf particularly Fishworks LLC, Uluul LLC, as well as the scientific research financial support to those companies that wished to undergo valuable for fishing, and in which exploration and institutes KamchatNIRO, TINRO-Center, and MagadanNIRO. a preliminary evaluation of their activities. Now, the companies drilling for hydrocarbons would be forbidden. Now, the This example of cooperation speaks to the heightened sense of must resolve to follow through with the entire certification project is being widely discussed, and WWF will seek ecological responsibility among Far Eastern fishing companies, process. With consultative help from the Fund, the Russian its ratification by the State Duma. their willingness to maintain dialogues with non-governmental Pollock Association, a consortium of 25 large Far Eastern and scientific organizations, and their intentions to develop fisheries companies, and the Gidrostroi company, one of ecologically sustainable fisheries in Russia. The first array of 50 the major salmon fishing and processing companies in streamers was given free of charge to companies who maintain the Sakhalin Region, independently underwent preliminary a longline fleet, and is already being successfully implemented. certification, and Gidrostroi is already concluding a full The next array will be manufactured at the expense of the evaluation of its operations. companies themselves.

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Protected zones for the Ecologists and oilmen cooperate preservation of fishing WWF and oil company Lukoil have agreed to conduct joint In 2008, the Government of the Russian Federation approved monitoring of the Atlantic walrus population on the eastern rules for the formation of fishing zones, in according with the coast of the Barents Sea, in the Nenets Autonomous Okrug. federal law «On fishing and the conservation of marine living This cooperation between ecologists and oil industry resources.» WWF actively participated in the preparation of this representatives arose from Lukoil’s plans to expand an oil long-anticipated document, and proposals for the criteria and depot in the village of Varandei – a key habitat for this Red the procedures of establishing such zones have been presented Book species. Arctic mammals can be found year-round to the Ministry of Agriculture. Much of what was proposed by in this very spot. In the summer of 2008, WWF experts experts from the Fund formed the eventual basis of the rules. familiarized themselves with the situation in the region, and

© Nikolay Pavlov / WWF-Russia Protected zones help to balance the interests of different users conducted negotiations with the leadership of the Varandei In November of 2008, visitors to the international of natural assets in areas that are particularly important for Depot joint-stock company, a structural subsidiary of exhibition Rybpromexpo 2008 sampled cod, harvesting fish and other marine resources. The conservation of Lukoil. Subsequent collaboration will result in a programme chum salmon, pink salmon, halibut, and other species of great value to humans in their areas of active breeding charged with evaluating the risk to the population and fish species. The fish were caught and presented can only be assured by introducing restrictions on economic lessening the negative impact on the Barents Sea’s marine by candidate-companies for Marine Stewardship activity. This is particularly important when speaking of prioritizing inhabitants. Council (MSC) certification. Representatives from certain vectors of development for entire regions. In Russia, fish processing companies, the Federal Fisheries this applies first and foremost to the entire Kamchatka Krai and Agency, and seafood distributors were invited to its associated continental shelf – traditionally important fishing FFOROR EENVIRONMENTALNVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITYRESPONSIBILITY ININ THETHE OILOIL ANDAND GASGAS INDUSTRYINDUSTRY the tasting, organized by WWF in one of Moscow's regions that are now seeing the arrival of oil and gas companies. restaurants. In markets across the globe, a Oil spills must be combated special place is reserved for wild fish, caught in by specialists accordance with all regulations and processed MMARINEARINE CCONSERVATIONONSERVATION Between 2005 and 2008, around 200 people were trained with attention to quality. In Russia, such fish is all to clean up the coastline in case of accidental oil spills too often crowded out by products made from fish WWF evaluates in the Barents Sea. Among these were 20 specialists farmed abroad. One of the tasks WWF is adopting, the efficiency of fisheries from the Murmansk department of the Russian Ministry is the development of strategies and markets In 2008, WWF conducted a study of the economic efficiency of of Emergency Situations, who will serve as leaders of in our country to promote domestic, legally operating the Russian fishing fleet in the Barents Sea. Experts volunteer brigades should an emergency response plan harvested, healthful, and delicious fish. Russian identified a direct link between the economic efficiency of the be enacted. The «Clean Shores!» programme, functioning consumers must know what they're eating, and fleet’s work and the conservation of stocks of commercial fish, under the leadership of WWF, aims to train volunteers, and what they can do to see that our most productive first and foremost the Arctic cod. Recommendations based on is charged with compensating for insufficient resources in fishing areas are not depleted. the results of the study will help to optimize the management the fight against oil pollution. In 2008, WWF conducted drills of the industry, in order to conserve living resources and in the village of Belokamenka, not far from the FSO (floating increase the efficiency of fishing on the Barents Sea. storage and off-loading vessel) of the same name, and

When more than 1/3 of earth’s terrestrial land is profoundly transformed, all large predatory mammals, 22 ANNUAL REPORT WWF-Russia 2008 birds and herbivores face the threat of extinction. TTHANKSHANKS FORFOR YOURYOUR SSUPPORT!UPPORT! THE GREENEST CHRISTMAS TREE © WWF-Russia © Alexander Evgrafov / WWF-Russia

On December 15th on Red Square, the «greenest» Christmas tree in the capital lit up: famous public figures and athletes illuminated the decorations using bicycle-generators, in order to draw the attention The «Clean Coast!» program, of Russian citizens to the importance of energy operated by WWF, aims to train efficiency and the problem of climate change. Turning volunteers, and is charged with the pedals were Ambassador of the Kingdom of compensating for insufficient resources Denmark to Russia Per Karlsen, Deputy Director of in the fight against oil pollution. the Russian Federal Service for Natural Resource Supervision Oleg Mitvol', TV and radio anchorwoman Ol'ga Shelest, figure skaters Il'ya Averbukh, in the region of the Beloe More station, which neighbors FFOROR EENVIRONMENTALNVIRONMENTAL RRESPONSIBILITYESPONSIBILITY IINN TTHEHE OOILIL AANDND GGASAS IINDUSTRYNDUSTRY Tatiana Tot'mianina and Maksim Marinin, director the Vitino oil port. Here, a children’s recreation camp, the of the «GUM-skating rink» on Red Square Dmitri Kandalakshsky Zapovednik, and an oil depot are found side Lessons of the Kerch oil spill Sokol'nikov, and WWF-Russia CEO Igor Chestin. by side. In the event of a tanker accident, the harm to the A year has passed since the disaster in the Strait of Kerch. In Through this symbolic action, WWF aimed to environment, local inhabitants and vacationers would be November of 2007, the wreck of the oil tanker Volgoneft’-139 remind Russian citizens that the wasteful use of enormous. WWF gathered inspectors from the Murmansk resulted in the spillage of more than 2 thousand tons of fuel energy is one of the major factors driving climate Region Directorate of Specially Protected Natural Areas, oil into the Black Sea. The disaster led to the deaths of tens change. More than half of Russia's CO2 emissions who under the guidance of specialists learned to control of thousands of birds and fish. Throughout this time, WWF stem from everyday use of electricity. Thus, the a simulated oil spill. WWF specialists are convinced that worked actively in the ecological disaster zone, collaborating reduction of energy usage, and subsequently, of only the collaborative, well planned and smoothly executed with many governmental structures and non-profit greenhouse gas emissions, is in our hands. We action of all participants can allow for an effective response organizations. The Netherlands and Norway branches of can begin the fight against the «climate disease» to a large-scale oil spill. WWF, as well as many supporters of WWF-Russia supported by turning off our lights and electrical appliances efforts to rescue birds. A center for the rehabilitation when they are not being used. of injured birds operated for six months. Along with

In 2005, the footprint of a resident in developed countries amounted to 6.4 hectares, ANNUAL REPORT WWF-Russia 2008 23 or 3 times larger than the biosphere can afford! REDUCING THE «ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT» OF MANKIND

© Dmitriy Volgin © Dmitriy Volgin FFOROR EENVIRONMENTALNVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITYRESPONSIBILITY ININ THETHE OILOIL ANDAND GASGAS INDUSTRYINDUSTRY

Clean air up to European standards WWF conducted a comparative study of the ecological responsibility of Russian oil refineries. The study analyzed the particularities of state regulation with regard to production and use of petroleum products, and identified possible avenues for its development. Emphasis was placed on promoting the production of higher quality motor fuels in Russia. As demonstrated by the study, the majority of the country’s oil companies are actively transitioning towards producing more ecologically clean motor fuels up to Euro- 3, Euro-4, and Euro-5 standards. However, the outdated technology of many oil refineries and the aging domestic automotive fleet remain impediments to a universal transition to higher standards. Of 30 million vehicles in Russia, 85% have Euro-2 engines. WWF believes that a state-run social programme to replace outdated automobiles (for example, through preferential tax treatment for owners of modern vehicles) is essential, and will lead to a quicker resolution Volunteers of varying ages and professions of the task: supplying modern cars with correspondingly learned to render emergency care to animals ecologically sound fuel. It is essential to develop the that were suffering the consequences of the domestic auto industry as well – to streamline its operations fuel oil spill in the Strait of Kerch. Now, they and raise its quality. This includes initiating a transition are prepared to answer the first call, and go towards fuel-efficient and hybrid vehicles (in Moscow, the wherever their expertise is needed. resolution of this issue has already begun with support from Mayor Yuri Luzhkov), as well as towards vehicles that run on natural gas. Vehicles with more «ecological» engines ornithologists and veterinarians, more than 100 volunteers varying professions and ages learned to render emergency (in terms of the volume of emissions and fuel economy), from Russia and Ukraine arrived to the site, as well as highly care to animals. Now, they are prepared to answer the first including hybrid and electric engines, must be adopted by qualified experts from Belgium and Finland who, in spite call, and go wherever their expertise is needed. the Russian market as soon as possible, and the mandatory of harsh living conditions, inadequate supplies and severe Now, WWF aims to ensure that a clause for the rescue of labeling of vehicles with their ecological data, including CO2 weather conditions, helped nurse the birds to health. During injured animals using up-to-date methods be included in the emissions, must be introduced. this work in the ecological disaster zone, the most aggressive oil spill recovery plans of oil and shipping companies. methods possible were utilized to rescue birds. Volunteers of

24 ANNUAL REPORT WWF-Russia 2008 The average footprint of a Russian is 3.7 hectares, i.e. we would require 1.76 Earths. REDUCING THE «ECOLOGICAL

FOOTPRINT» OF MANKIND TTHANKSHANKS FORFOR YOURYOUR SSUPPORT!UPPORT! CAR FREE DAY © Vladimir Potanskiy / WWF-Russia © WWF-Russia

Moscow's first-ever International Car Free Day took place on September 23rd, 2008. Through this event, which calls upon citizens to use public transportation, bicycles, or walk on foot rather than drive cars for one day, WWF and Mosgortrans (the Moscow transit authority) drew the attention of Russians to problems stemming from the ever- increasing number of cars in cities. The event was marked with a bike ride through the center of Moscow. Along with air pollution, motor transport is responsible for the enormous growth in emissions of CO2 – the major greenhouse gas driving global climate change. WWF believes that immediate action is necessary to avoid a collapse of the transit system and a catastrophic air pollution problem. Of course, a majority of city-dwellers could, from time to time, carpool or decline to travel by car altogether.

ANNUAL REPORT WWF-Russia 2008 25 The «footprint» left by citizens of developed nations ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT CALCULATOR in 2005 averaged 6.4 hectares – 3 times larger than the biosphere can afford.

What sort of ecological footprint 4. DIET are we leaving? 4.1. At the market or grocery store, you generally buy fresh groceries (bread, fruit, vegetables, fish and meat) from Dear friends! local producers, and prepare the meals yourself +2 4.2. You prefer already processed foods, par-cooked or If you want to find out what your personal ecological frozen foods that only require heating, and canned goods, footprint is, complete the following survey. In order to and additionally, don't consider where they were produced calculate your ecological footprint, you must choose +14 the options that correspond closest to your lifestyle, 4.3. You generally buy prepared or ready-to-eat foods, and and add or subtract the number of points indicated on do not try to choose foods produced closer to home +5 4.4. You eat meat 2-3 times a week the right. The sum of your points gives the size of your +50 4.5. You eat meat 3 times a day +85 ecological footprint. 4.6. You prefer a vegetarian diet +30

5. WATER AND PAPER USE 1. RESIDENCE 5.1. You take a bath daily +14 1.1. The floorspace of your residence would allow you to 5.2. You take a bath once or twice a week +2 keep a cat, but a mid-sized dog would make it feel a little 5.3. Instead of baths, you shower daily +4 cramped +7 5.4. From time to time, you water a home garden or wash 1.2. A large, spacious apartment +12 your car from a hose +4 1.3. Two-family detached home +23 5.5. If you want to read a book, you always buy it +2 TALLYING YOUR RESULTS: 5.6. Sometimes you borrow books from the library or Take the score from the first three questions, and acquaintances -1 Divide the final result by 100 to find out how many hectares of the planet's surface are required to divide it by the number of people living in your house 5.7. After reading the newspaper, you throw it out +10 meet your needs, and how many planets we would need if all people lived like you do! or apartment. 5.8. Newspapers that you buy or receieve by subscription are often read by somebody else when you finish them +5 2. ENERGY USE 2.1 ha 2.1. Your house is heated with oil, natural gas or coal +45 6. EVERYDAY WASTE 2.2. Your house is heated with hydroelectric, wind, or solar 6.1. We all create waste and garbage, so add to your 4.2 ha energy +2 score: +100 2.3. Most of us receieve our electricity from fossil fuel 6.2. In the last month, you have returned bottles at least 6.3 ha sources, so add to your score: +75 once -15 2.4. Your home's heating is such, that you can regulate it 6.3. When throwing away your garbage, you place paper 8.4 ha depending on the weather -10 waste in a separate container -17 2.5. Your dress warmly at home, and sleep under two 6.4. You return the empty cans from drinks and canned 10.5 ha blankets at night -5 foods -10 2.6. You always turn the lights off when you leave a room -10 6.5. You place plastic packaging in a separate container -8 12.6 ha 2.7. You always turn off your household appliances, never 6.6. You try to buy food by weight, not pre-packaged, and leaving them on stand-by -10 you reuse plastic packaging at home -15 6.7. You compost your everyday waste, for use as fertilizer -5 3. TRANSPORTATION In order for the planet to provide for all of us, each person must require no more than 2.1 3.1. You take city transportation to work +25 If you live in a city with a population of 500,000 hectares of productive land. For comparison: the average American uses 9.4 hectares (4.5 3.2. You walk or ride a bike to work +3 planets!), the average European – 4.7 hectares (2.2 planets), and the average citizen of people or larger, increase your score by 2. 3.3. You drive a standard, light vehicle +45 Mozambique – only 0.9 hectares (0.4 planets). The average Russian uses 3.7 hectares (1.76 3.4. You drive a large and powerful vehicle with 4-wheel planets). drive +75 3.5. You travelled by airplane on a recent vacation +85 What can I do with this survey? 3.6. You travelled up to 12 hours by train on a recent If you are looking to lessen your ecological footprint, this survey can help to show which areas of your life contribute to it the most. You can also reflect and decide which areas of your life you vacation +10 Source: «Ecological footprint» Rossiya i Rossiyane. / are ready to change. Perhaps you've been meaning to change your lifestyle for a long time – by 3.7. You travelled more than 12 hours by train on this Edited by Slavinskii D. A., Chernikovaia S.A. SPB: VVM. vacation +20 24 pp. getting on your bike, adopting a healthier diet, making your home more efficient – then the lesser ecological footprint allows you not only to improve your life quality, but also help the planet.

26 ANNUAL REPORT WWF-Russia 2008 Reducing your “ecological footprint” not only helps you improve your lifestyle, but helps the planet as well Ask any person who has made but one conscious sacrifice, if they received more in return than they gave – and the majority will respond with a decisive ''yes''. Even in the realm of charity there are «dividends.» Surely, central among these is the feeling of involvement in good deeds.

KATYA PAL, DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT FOR WWF-RUSSIA

Thank you for your support! © Lena Lebedeva-Hooft / WWF-Russia ©

en years ago, thanks to donations collected by WWF, established, financed by supporters and partners of WWF. Club, and to those companies which finance individual we began to restore unique pine forests in Altai, Preliminary work is being done towards the release of the projects by releasing products with the «panda» logo, and T which had been destroyed by fire. The replanted leopard into the wilderness of the Caucasus. donating a portion of the proceeds to WWF. We thank the forests will outlive us all. Today, a free-ranging herd of bison Living forests, bison and leopards, the prevention of ecological photographers who provide us with their images free of roams European Russia – were it not for the enthusiastic disasters, the development of mankind in harmony with nature charge for use in our publications, this report included. We response of companies and private citizens, these ancient – these are the very values shared by every supporter and owe special thanks to the mass media outlets, who routinely animals would still be confined only to zoos and breeding partner of WWF. We are certain that no crisis of any sort will write, speak and broadcast features on the activities of WWF centers. Thanks to the participation of a number of companies undercut these values... – and of course, we thank those who distribute our public and to the Charity Ball on the Grass, every year Russia's service announcement for free. We are all performing one zapovedniks and national parks are given the opportunity to In the pages of our annual report, we express our enormous collective deed for the good of the planet, and ultimately – for implement interesting projects, for which no funding could gratitude to all those, without whom we could not continue to the good of each of us living upon it. be found in the federal budget. To protect the ''Lord of the move forward. First and foremost, to our supporters – people Arctic'' – the Polar bear, who more than any other is suffering of all stripes who help us through their donations. We also the effects of climate change – «Bear Patrols» have been express thanks to the member-companies of WWF Corporate >> In the 10 years of WWF's «Nature THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT! Reserves and National Parks» program, more than 100 protected territories have received funding, thanks to the support of Russian businesses. Valley of the Geysers is open to the whole World WWF and the Kronotsky Zapovednik concluded the joint «Window to the Protected World» project on Kamchatka. A web-camera and a complex network of associated devices have been installed in the Valley of the Geysers, the crown jewel of the Kronotsky Zapovednik. The cameras stream photo and video images of the Valley on the internet - shots of the unique Vitrazh geyser complex and the eruptions of the Greater and Giant Geysers can be seen online, at wwf.ru/kamchatka/webcam. The «Window to the Protected World» project was the winner of WWF's small grants contest, «Effective Visitor's Centers – New Approaches and Unconventional Solutions.» The realization of the project was made possible with support from WWF and the financial assistance of Independent

© Sergey Trepet / WWF-Russia Media, the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, British American Tobacco (Russia), 2008 marked the 10th anniversary of In 2008, the contest was made and M.Video. Internet service provider Helios Net WWF’s «Nature Reserves and National possible thanks to the financial provided the online broadcast. Now, those who Parks of Russia» programme. In the form of support of the companies otherwise lack the physical or financial means can an annual contest, the programme awards small grants Independent Media, BAT Russia, witness the treasure of Kamchatka, and scientists to protected areas of our country, in order to address M-Video, Unilever, Helios Net, the ING can conduct long-distance monitoring of the the most acute and pressing problems they face. The Group, and Coca-Cola, as well as the geysers' activity. theme of the 10th contest was devoted to visitor’s centers: Swiss Agency for Development and new approaches and unconventional solutions for their Cooperation (SDC). Partners of the programme construction, as well as their refitting and modernization. were joined by Toyota Motors, which created a special Proposals were submitted by more than 70 protected category in the contest. As a result, projects were areas in various regions of Russia. The projects for completed in the Samarskaia Luka and Bashkiria the Kronotsky, Baikalsky, Altaisky and Komsomolsky National Parks, as well as the Stol’by Zapovednik. Zapovedniks, as well as for the Kenozersky National Park, were deemed to be the best. They were successfully

implemented with funding from WWF. © Viktor Nikiforov / WWF- Russia

To protect nature FOR and TOGETHER with people – such is the overarching aim 28 ANNUAL REPORT WWF-Russia 2008 of WWF throughout the world All told, WWF received 565,000 Euros from Russian companies in 2008

In 2008, the company Unilever made The Corporate Club – a membership programme for socially the decision to contribute to WWF responsible companies that care about the environment – forms the basis and its work towards preserving of partnerships between WWF-Russia and the business sector. Russia's environment. The company called upon consumers to buy Timotei shampoo, and donated WWF CORPORATE CLUB, 2008: a portion of the revenues to projects for developing ecotourism in the Russian North National Park and the Ac-cent Microsystems Independent Media RESO Garantia Shul'gan-Tash Zapovednik, as well as for the restoration Alfa-Bank Interros ROCKWOOL Russia of forests in Altai, which were destroyed by fire in 1997. ASCO ISC Travel group Rosbank

Aspera Exploration Ivan Taranov Breweries ROSNO The project Azbuka Vkusa M.Video Royal Bank of Scotland «Postcards and Bee Line Multon Tetra Pak Calendars for Charity» has already Coca-cola NA DOM Group TransUnicom been in operation ECOVITA Group NAYADA Troika Dialog for several years. On Eurokam Pilgrim VTB 24 the eve of the New Year, WWF HP Promsvyazbank proposed that businesses abandon unnecessary souvenirs in favor of real gifts to nature. In 2008, this WWF The Third WWF Charity Ball was held idea was supported by the companies Asko, Academia in June. All proceeds will go towards the budget Holding, Multon, HSBC, Amsterdam Trade Bank, GBA, for the 2009 «Nature Reserves and National Parks of and VisualPharm. Revenue from the programme, Russia» contest. The ball was attended by famous totaling 422 thousand rubles, went towards supporting musicians, actors and artists, as well as more than 500 the Fund's climate programmes. guests, all concerned with environmental protection Beginning in 2008, those who shop through the issues in Russia. Yuri Trutnev, the Russian Minister catalogues «Na Dom» and «Knizhnyi Salon» have been of Natural Resources and Ecology, was the event’s helping the environment. From every order through «Na guest of honor. All told, the ball was supported by 54 Dom,» one ruble is donated to the «Nature Reserves companies, 3 radio stations, 4 television channels, and National Parks of Russia» programme, and 2 advertising firms (using billboards) and 2 cellular thirty rubles from the sale of every bestseller through providers. The festivities attracted record donations – «Knizhnyi Salon» go towards restoring the unique pine more than 45 thousand Euros. forests of Altai.

More than 45 thousand euros were raised © Alexander Evgrafov / WWF-Russia at the third WWF charity ball, in support of Russia’s nature reserves and national ANNUAL REPORT WWF-Russia 2008 29 parks. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!

«Earth Keepers» is a membership programme for small businesses that not only support WWF financially, but provide their services for free as well. «The Golden Panda» 2008 saw the creation of the Golden Panda WWF'S «EARTH KEEPERS», 2008: Club (indicating a monthly contribution over 5000 rubles) from among the «Earth BGBiling HUHTAMAKI RM Telekom Keepers». The establishment of the club Capital Legal Services IQmarketing SmitHartman comes at a difficult time – in the thick of an economic crisis – but we have no doubt Diners Club International Le Meridien Moscow Country Club Solway that we will find support! In 2008, the club Econatsbank Manchies TDL Premium welcomed the following members: ETEGRO MAXIBIT The Ritz-Carlton Moscow MOSCOW Kupriyanov Dmitry Eurocam Group RemiLing WASSERHAUS Andreeva Galina Onischenko Vladislav GBA Renovel Andreeva Irina Terebinskaya Elena Arkhangelsij Gleb Kharchenko German Afanas’jev Igor’ 65% of WWF’s efforts around the globe are financed by Belova Natal’ja KRASNOYARSK Kartashov Andrej Skopets Sergey the charitable donations of private citizens. In 2008, Kim Natal’ja supporters donated a total of 479 thousand Euros Koval’ Galina towards WWF projects. Of this, more than 70% came from members of the «Earth Keepers» programme. We believe that by combining the efforts of many worthy and dedicated people, we can WWF’s supporters are people who, each month or once change the world for the better. Every donation a year, support the work of the Fund from their own from a Golden Panda club member represents pockets. Today, they number more than five million a vital contribution to the environment, and the throughout the world and over 12 thousand in Russia significance of the club for the development of alone.Supporters of WWF-Russia include famous actors, WWF’s work in Russia is difficult to overstate. artists and musicians, scholars and managers, retirees and students, government figures and businessmen, The club awaits new members! and members of nonprofit organizations. http://www.wwf.ru/help_us/ Gleb Arkhangelsky – General Director of the company donate/golden_panda/ WE THANK YOU ALL FOR Organizatsia Vremeni, Moscow. Gleb was the first to support SUPPORTING WWF’S the idea of the Golden Panda,

EFFORTS IN 2008! and became member #1. © WWF-Russia

We thank our supporters, our business and media partners, major media outlets, photographers 30 ANNUAL REPORT WWF-Russia 2008 and journalists for their support. Without you, our work would not be possible. TTHANKSHANKS FORFOR YOURYOUR SSUPPORT!UPPORT! GREEN FINGER © Vladislav Onishenko © Alexander Evgrafov / WWF-Russia

In June of 2008, at the third WWF charity ball In 2008, supporters «Earth Keepers» embarked for Russia's nature reserves, the worldwide on a journey to Kamchatka. There, they saw the «Green Finger» climate movement was initiated. results of WWF’s efforts in the region, gained It has spread widely throughout America and detailed insight into the Fund’s projects, and Europe, and now to our country as well. The learned the specific nature of the work being «Green Finger» initiative unites people of a wide done on the protected areas. variety of ages, professions, and nationalities. Its participants demand urgent action on the part of politicians to reverse dangerous climate In addition to regular financial Extraordinary experiences change and, in particular, reduce greenhouse gas support, in 2008 supporters helped must be shared emissions. Anybody can join the movement: all WWF: In September of 2008, supporters of «Earth Keepers» you have to do is paint your index finger green, ● Secure military tents and additional finances for embarked on a journey to Kamchatka. There, they and write what you wish to save most of all from volunteer work in the Strait of Kerch, and feed for visited Nalychevo Nature Park, Kronotsky Zapovednik, global climate change on your palm. In Russia, European Bison at the Prioksko-Terrasny Zapovednik the Valley of the Geysers, the Uzon caldera, and the this global climate movement is joined by Minister breeding center; South Kamchatka sanctuary. They saw the famous of Natural Resources and Ecology Yuri Trutnev, Print and circulate the year’s bestseller – the deck of Karymsky, Mutnovsky and Gorely volcanoes from a Deputy Director of the Russian Federal Service flashcards «60 Answers to the Questions of Climate helicopter, soaked in the hot springs, and watched the for Natural Resource Supervision Oleg Mitvol', Skeptics,» and the spring issue of the newspaper Panda; brown bears. But most importantly, they saw the results animal trainers Karina and Artur Bagdasarov, of WWF’s efforts in the region, gained detailed insight television and radio anchor Katya Gordon, music ● Attain Anna Club Plush stuffed animals – white mice into the Fund’s projects, and learned the specific nature critic Artemiy Troitskiy, rock group Uma2rman and and pandas, which helped to draw additional funds for of the work being done in the zapovedniks, sanctuaries, many other well-known figures, as well as over 5 WWF programmes; and nature parks. During the voyage, the idea was thousand average citizens. You, too, can become a raised to hold a photo exhibition of the results of the part of the global climate movement. Send a photo ● Prepare and publish the «Family Life of Animals» 2007 and 2008 trips. The resulting exhibition was held in of your green finger to www.wwf.ru/greenfinger desktop calendars and «Help!» pocket calendars, as November of 2008, in the Drevo art gallery. We extend well as New Year’s ornament-postcards. our deepest gratitude to the gallery’s employees, the

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Fotolab company, and all supporters and participants in the project, as well as its architect and organizer, two- time «Earth Keeper» Dmitri Zhuravlev.

Combining the necessary with the helpful

In the fall of 2008, many Muscovites found a slightly © Natalya Nechaeva unusual utilities bill in their mailboxes. An appeal to support the efforts of WWF had been inserted on its Famous animal trainers Karina reverse side. This was made possible thanks to the and Artur Bagdasarov were the support of the city’s Moscow Veteran foundation. representatives of WWF's «Panda Over the course of three months (October through Family» campaign in 2008. December), almost 1500 Muscovites responded to the appeal and became supporters of the Fund! WWF set out to establish a regional landscape conducting active educational work in Russia in the run- sanctuary in the most valuable areas of the Dvinsky up to the 15th United Nations Framework Convention The Year of the Family with WWF forest, as the threat of intensive logging here is on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which will convene in In the fall of 2008, WWF called upon Russian citizens particularly acute. As a result, 70 thousand hectares of Copenhagen in November of 2009. to end the Year of the Family with a good deed – unique forest will be protected from logging over the becoming a supporter-family of WWF. The face of the next ten years. The Fund has submitted a proposal to campaign was a family of famous animal trainers – the government of the Arkhangelsk Region to establish Also in 2008: Karina and Artur Bagdasarov. the boundaries of a 400 thousand hectare sanctuary. WWF organized 11 meetings of backers in Moscow, Karina is a member of WWF «Earth Keepers». attended by more than 250 people; Every quarter, supporters received updates on the WWF ambassadors Fund’s work via their email; New life for the Dvinsky forest for a healthy climate Over 3.5 thousand supporters of our work added their Thanks to the financial support of WWF backer and Two WWF supporters, Katya Levitskaya of Moscow signatures to an appeal to protect the Ukok plateau «Earth Keeper» Andrei Kartashov, a section of the and Dima Vladimirov of Voronezh, won a contest to and the Kamchatka wild salmon, and participated in the highly valuable Dvinsky forest in the Arkhangelsk become our country’s representatives on the «Voyage spring event «Earth Hour»; Region has been spared from felling. The forest is for the Future» – a WWF-organized Arctic expedition, Around 150 supporters gathered for a traditional April located in the interfluve area of the Northern Dvina and which took place in June of 2008. The purpose of the service-day. In spite of cold weather, more than 150 the Pinega Rivers, and is the largest wooded area in expedition was to convince political leaders of the bags of garbage were picked up over the course of Europe. It is responsible for the entire region’s climate necessity to combine their efforts, and take urgent several hours. In addition, we helped park employees and the water regime in the rivers, and also serves as a action, in the fight against climate change. Now, prepare certain areas of forest for spring planting by habitat for rare fungi, plants and animals. WWF and these young «climate ambassadors» are gathering brush and foliage.

Living forests, bison and leopards, the prevention of ecological disasters, the development of mankind 32 ANNUAL REPORT WWF-Russia 2008 in harmony with nature – these are the very values shared by every supporter and partner of WWF. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!

Adopt a European Bison! A joint programme between WWF-Russia and the In 2008, the programme was supported by Prioksko-Terrasny Zapovednik in the Moscow Region has been in operation since May of 2004. At that time, 28 dedicated people, companies and organizations: federal funding had dwindled to the point where the zapovednik’s bison herd faced the threat of starvation. 1. Andrey and Pavel Yuryev The donations of Russian citizens, organizations 2. Diana Parshkova, Earth keeper and companies helped the breeding stock survive. 3. Dmitry Shaposhnikov and Marianna Miloslavskaya, Earth keepers Anybody who so wishes can take one of these horned 4. Dirk Sauer, Earth keeper beasts under their wing, by financing its yearly upkeep 5. Evgeny Grigoryev in the nursery. The first «adopted» bison turned 4-5 years old in 2008, the age at which they must be 6. Irina and Galya Andreev, Earth keepers transferred to a new habitat to establish a free-ranging 7. Kozlevichi & Ku, Earth keepers population. 10 bison were transferred to the Kaluzhskie 8. Mark Anatolyevich Tyomkin Zaseki Zapovednik in October. As a result, the overall 9. Political Party «Spravedlivaya Rossia: Rodina / Pensionery / Zhizn» - previously Rossiyskaya Partia population of these animals in European Russia now 10. Gaylit Family exceeds 150 individuals. 11. Nikanorov Family, Earth keepers WWF and the Prioksko-Terrasny Zapovednik are still 12. Nikitin Family seeking finances for the support and development of 13. Cherkassov Family, Earth keepers the bison nursery. 2008 showed that the total expenses 14. Y.F. Sleptsov, Head of Voskresensk district, President of the «Khimki» hockey club, Voskresensk associated with the upkeep of the bison had increased: 15. Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VCIOM) since May, the charitable contribution of participants in 16. ZAO «SeverStal-Resurs» the programme (both companies and private citizens) has totaled 50 thousand rubles. 17. Multon, WWF-Russia Corporate Club member 18. Tetra Pak, WWF-Russia Corporate Club member More details on the «Adopt a Bison» 19. The Youth environmental organization of the Moscow Region «Mestnye» programme are available online, 20. Fluor Corporation, Moscow at wwf.ru/help_us/adopt_zubr/ 21. The Moscow Regional Bureau of Technical Inventory 22. «KubanAgroProd» 23. «RemStroy Ltd» 24. «FRECOM» 25. AutoPassage M, the Official Dealer of Land Rover 26. Zubr, the Dental clinics 27. SONAX, Representative office in Russia

ANNUAL REPORT WWF-Russia 2008 33 © Elena Smirnova / WWF-Russia THANK YOU FORYOUR SUPPORT! Young EarthKeepersvisitbison friendly, and very defenseless animals.» friendly, andvery time,Iwanttopetthesewonderful, people, loveandjoy,awishtoadoptanother,another. Every wefeelharmonybetweenanimalsand Whenwevisitthebisonandbuffalo, to «adopt»theminthenursery. apartment,somymomandIdecided hardtocontaininacity arevery «Such biganimalsasbisonandbuffalo Murkiza-Mulya for five years. with hermom, Galya has already taken care of thebison Masyanya and Galya Andreeva Keeper». (9 years «Earth old), Together WWF-Russia care aboutthefuture,inwhichwe’dallliketolivesensibly,andharmonywithoursurroundingworld.» of man’splaceandroleintheworld,ameanstoassertourvalues.Bycaringforanimals,wedemonstrate itsunderstanding the Fund’sprogrammesandprojectsisamanifestationofcompany’ssocialresponsibility, «We istightlybounduptogetherandinterdependent. Forus,participationin liveinaworldwhereeverything adopted bison Mufreya Keeper»,«Earth andin his company’s name, «parent» years for to two the Evgeny Kabanov, General Director of Kubanagroprod LLC, WWF-Russia done,» theysay, andask«whatdoyougetinreturnforthat?...» enclosure withour«adoptedson,»Igetafeelingofjoyandevenpride,myfriendsareastonished.«Well civilization, weceasedtonoticethatthere’ssomebodyelseinneedofhelpandprotection.Standingnext tothe thatEarthbelongstoalllivingthings.Inpursuitoftheblessings «Unfortunately, manhasforgotten «parent» years for to two theadopted bison Shponti Yur’ev,Andrei Keeper», «Earth andwith WWF-Russia his sonPavel,

© Viktor Jivotchenko / WWF-Russia posadi_les/ online, at www.wwf.ru/help_us Forest» programmeareavailable More details onthe«Plant Your Own postponed untilspringof2009. planting seedlingsinunfavorableconditions,workwas precluded plantinginSeptember.To avoidtheriskof An unusuallydrysummerandbeginningofautumn thousand rubles. the costofrestoringonehectareforesttotaled20 had significantlyincreased.Assuch,fromMayof2008, associated withpreparing,plantingandraisingseedlings By thespringithadbecomeclear,thatcosts restored atotalof90hectaresforestland. the «PlantYour OwnForest»programmethisyear,and forests ofAltaiKrai.64individualsandcompaniesjoined Work isongoingtowardsrestoringthecharredbandpine Plant Your Forest Own © WWF-Russia THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT! TTHANKSHANKS FORFOR YOURYOUR SSUPPORT!UPPORT! EARTH HOUR 2008

In 2008, the following people (names 30. Korneeva Anna Sergeevna are written as requested by the 31. Lebedev Yurij people themselves) became «Forest 32. Mayorov Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Guardians»: 33. Mamchich Mikhail 34. Nikonov Filipp 1. «CP DIGITAL» 35. Novikov Oleg Evgen’evich 2. «Bobry-Tusovatory» 36. Nuraliev Boris Georgievich 3. «British American Tobacco» 37. Joint-stock company «Karelfinles» 4. RAO «VOENPROM» 38. Pal Katya © Science Center Phoenix15 5. ECOVITA Group 39. Parfenov Georgij Dmitrievich What do the President of Fiji and television 6. Sfate Die-El'Gelanor 40. Pokolodny Daniil Sergeevich anchor Nikolai Drozdov have in common with 7. WWW-Dosk 41. Ponomarenko Aleksey and Anastasiya millions of people all over the world? On the 8. Andrianova Elena Aleksandrovna, Shunaeva 42. Rodionov Andrey 29th of March, 2008, they all turned off their Masha, Sachkova Irina Yur’evna and Rykov Yaroslav 43. Ryabyuk Vladislav lights for one hour as part of WWF event «Earth Aleksandrovich 44. Severtsev Vladislav Viktorovich Hour,» in order to draw the world's attention to 9. Brel’ Kirill Vladimirovich and Kim Igor’ Vladimirovich 45. Sergeev Aleksandr the problem of climate change. Particularly large 10. Gordienko Maria Pavlovna 46. Seren Valentina events took place in 25 cities, including Chicago, 11. Ermolaeva Galina 47. Solovyov Nikolay Makarovich Copenhagen, Manila, Tel Aviv, Bangkok, Dublin, 12. Efimova Maria 48. Solovyova Margarita Vladimirovna and Toronto, and all told more than 400 cities 13. Zhirov Igor’ Vital’jevich 49. Sudakov Nikita joined the initiative. San Francisco's Golden Gate 14. Zhuk Igor’ Nikolaevich 50. Tarazevich Dmitry Bridge, the Sydney Opera House, and Toronto's 15. «Komileszagotprom» ltd. 51. Tarasov Aleksandr Aleksandrovich CN tower all went dark. In Russia, Earth Hour was 16. «Prioritet» ltd. 52. Tevis Vitaly supported by more than six thousand people, from 17. «TEMERSO» ltd. 53. Tomash Sergey Vladivostok to Murmansk. Online partners of the 18. Zeybot Sergey 54. Book Trade House «MOSKVA» movement included Google, popular networking 19. Zotov Pavel Andreevich 55. Troshkina Anna site odnoklassniki.ru, and LiveJournal. To turn 20. Idrisov Aleksandr Borisovich 56. Khovalyg Ayana off the lights for one hour each year is but a small 21. Il’in Dmitry Igorevich 57. Tsoy Tamara gesture, but WWF hopes that from this simple 22. Internet-shop OZON.ru 58. Tsypulev Yurij Vyacheslavovich step, people will begin to take a more responsible 23. Kayokina Elena and Filatova Anna 59. Cherkashin Pavel approach towards energy usage, and Earth Hour 24. Kim Nelli 60. Chernomyrdin Viktor Stepanovich will become a stimulus for energy efficiency every 25. Kirienko Aleksandra Aleksandrovna 61. Shamarina Ol’ga day. On March 28th, 2009, WWF Russia plans an 26. Kol’tsov Dmitry 62. Shichanina Ekaterina even larger-scale event, in various cities, and in 27. Kolyadin Oleg 63. Shishlovy Lyudmila Fedoseevna and Yurij Ivanovich conjunction with administrative organs, electric 28. Kondakovy Igor and Elena 64. Unilever companies, and businesses. 29. Konstantinova Anna Aleksandrovna

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MOSCOW AND THE Bagdasarova Karina Bozhiday Ekaterina Dmitrieva Irina Filippova Natal’ja Grigor’jev Leonid MOSCOW REGION Bagrov Vladimir Bratkina Tat’jana Dobashina Evgenia Firsova Inna Grigorovskaja Varvara Abdushelishvili Levan Balandina Elena Brjukhov Vasiliy Dolgiy Mikhail Fisun Aleksey Grinev Sergey Abramova Irina Balandina Natalia Budanov Evgeniy Dolmatov Denis Fokina Julia Grishko Aleksey Abramova Vera Barannikova Margarita Bukreev Andrey Dolmatova Ol’ga Fomina Anna Griсina Aleksey Afanas’jeva Anna Baranov Viktor Bukvareva Aleksandra Dolya Oleg Fonton Aleksandra Gudkova Svetlana Agamirov Arkadiy Barinov Dmitry Bukvareva Elena Donchenko Dar’ja Frejdina Marina Guglja Il’ja Agamirova Ol’ga Barteneva Svetlana Bulakhtina Svetlana Donskaja Dar’ja Frolova Mona Gusakov Nikita Agatin Pavel Basistov Aleksey Buldakova Svetlana Donсov Nikolay Gafin Aleksandr Guseva Julia Akhmetzhanov Maksim Basov Maksim Bulgakov Nikolay Dorokhov Andrey Gajeva Julia Ignat’jeva Maria Akimov Igor’ Basova Lilija Bulygin Artem Doronchenkov Konstantin Gal’perin Jakov Il’in Konstantin Aksenova Ol’ga Batyukhnov Aleksandr Buniatyan Tigran Dorozhkin Aleksey Galiсin Viktor Inzhinevskaja Lyubov’ Akvardar Ajlin Baum Viktor Burdin Konstantin Drozdov Nikolay Galochkin Il’ja Isaeva Svetlana Aleksandrov Andrey Bedin Mikhail Burmistrov Marat Druzhinin Aleksey Garaev Timur Ivakina Natal’ja Aleksandrov Vladimir Bedina Tat’jana Burmistrova Dasha Dubrovin Dmitry Garkusha Ol’ga Ivanov Roman Aleksandrova Margarita Bekasova Arina Busarev Sergey Dubrovina Nadezhda Gavril’chak Andrey Ivanova Anna Alekseev Aleksey Bekineev Ivan Bychkov Aleksandr Dvornikov Konstantin Gavrilov Artem Jakhnenko Julia Alekseeva Evgenia Bel’makova Elena Bykov Andrey Dyuzheva Anna Gavrilova Julia Jakobson Julia Alekseytseva Anna Belikov Anton Chaus Svetlana Dyuzheva Ol’ga Gegina Maria Jakovlev Gleb Aleshin Aleksey Belkin Maksim Cherkashin Igor’ Dzhanashvili Angelina Gerasimov Sergey Jarlykov Igor’ Aleshina Ol’ga Belokurov Aleksandr Cherkasov Mikhail Edel’man Leonid Gerasimov Vladimir Jarmonov Anton Alferova Alena Belousov Dmitry Chernenko Elena Efanov Anton Gershenzon Ol’ga Jaroslavсev Igor’ Alieva Nina Belousova Anna Chernenko Irina Egorov Aleksey Godgel’f Anna Jaroslavсeva Evgenia Ametistova Lyudmila Belov Anton Chernov Igor’ Egorova Marina Golev Vladimir Jasenskaja Ekaterina Andreev Viktor Belova Evgenia Chernyak Leonid Elias Viktoria Golovanov Dmitry Judinskaja Irina Andreeva Alla Belozerova Natalia Chernyshenko Oksana Eliseev Evgeniy Golovanova Maria Juldasheva Ekaterina Andrianova Elena Belyaev Aleksandr Chestin Igor’ Emel’janova Anna Golovicher Ol’ga Jur’jev Andrey Andryuschak Irina Belyavskaja Elena Chibashova Natalia Emm Julia Golovlev Semen Jusupova Diana Anikeeva Julia Beresnev Aleksandr Chistyakova Vera Eremin Aleksey Gonobobleva Natalia Juzhakova Inna Anisimov Igor’ Berezhnov Dmitry Chizhevskaja Elina Ermakov Kirill Gorbunenko Petr Kabanov Evgeniy Annenkov Vladimir Bezrukova Ekaterina Chubiy Vitaliy Erokhina Ol’ga Gorbunova Larisa Kachan Nina Anokhina Dar’ja Bil’zho Andrey Chugunova Inna Ershov Sergey Gordeeva Irina Kalenkovich Aleksey Apraksina Irina Birulin Vasiliy Chumachenko Maria Evina Anna Gordijenko Maria Kalinnikova Margarita Artemov Valeriy Bobrova Anastasia Danilychev Sergey Evsey Aleksandr Gorelovskiy Andrey Kalugina Natal’ja Artyukh Roman Bobrova Evgenia Dausheva Nina Evtushenko Tat’jana Gorjushina Natal’ja Kamenev Aleksandr Asadov Aleksandr Bochkareva Nina Demidenko Ol’ga Farafontov Aleksey Gorozhankin Vyacheslav Kapaсinskaja Natal’ja Asadov Rufat Bogatova Natal’ja Demidov Aleksey Fateev Il’ja Gorsheneva Elena Kapaсinskiy Mikhail Atarschikova Marina Bogdanov Nikolay Demidova-Kiraz Tat’jana Fenchuk Mikhail A. Gorshkova Vera Kapustina-Bruks Elena Avrakhov Evgeniy Boguсkaja Evgenia Denisov Stanislav Fenchuk Mikhail M. Grachev Aleksandr Karaev Nemat Azarova Galina Bondarchuk Irina Derbeneva Larisa Feofanova Natalia Grachev Igor’ Karakuсev Sergey Babicheva Elena Borisov Dmitry Derkacheva Aleksandra Filatchev Mikhail Gracheva Ol’ga Karasev Boris Babijchuk Daniil Borisova Aleksandra Didenko Feliks Filatova Julia Grakhovskaja Ekaterina Karavaev Aleksandr Babikov Sergey Borisova Tat’jana Dikhtyar Svetlana Filatova Maria Grankina Ekaterina Karchemkin Aleksey Babina Irina Borschevskiy Dmitry Dmitriev Vladimir Filatova-Gomoki Viktoria Grebesheva Natal’ja Karlsen Anastasia Badenkova Nadezhda

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Kartashova Alina Kondrat’jev Aleksey Kruglova Anna Lebedeva-Khooft Elena Mel’nikov Denis Nikulina Natal’ja Kashirсeva Rozita Kondratenko Galina Krutyakova Julia Lelyukhina Elena Mifodovskiy Valeriy Nisimov Artur Katalevskaja Marina Kononov Aleksandr Krylova Anna Leonov Andrey Mikhajlov Andrey Norsojan Lyudmila Levina Ol’ga Kazachenkov Andrey Konorova Aleksandra Krymshamkhalova Kornelli Mikhajlova Ksenia Novash Irina Litvinova Natalia Kazachenkova Maria Konovalov Konstantin Krysova Elena Mikheeva Nadezhda Novozhilov Evgeniy Lobanova Stanislava Kerсenbaum Kirill Konstantinova Ol’ga Kudinov Denis Mikushevich Valentina Obukhovskaja Lyudmila Lobanova Vera Kezhkovski Jan Kopylova Natal’ja Kudryashov Petr Milashevich Anatoliy Oganesjan Laura Lobov Sergey Kezhkovski Tomash Kopytova Maria Kudryavсeva Margarita Milekhina Anna Oganesyan Elena Loginov Aleksey Kh’julett Linn Korneeva Anna Kudryavсeva Tat’jana Miloslavskaja Marianna Okulova Elena Loginova Alla Khabirova Natal’ja Korol’kov Andrey Kulagina Elena Minchina Elena Olejnik Alina Logunov Anton Khajns Dzhanatan Korolev Mikhail Kulakov Pavel Mironenko Anna Olejnik Elena Lokotkova Elena Khalkina Elena Korolev Vladimir Kulikova Elena Miroshina Evgenia Olejnik Vyacheslav Lopyreva Viktoria Khanajeva Anzhelika Korostyshevskaja Oksana Kuper Markus Mirzojan Artur Oppengejm Veronika Lukashin Nikolay Kharchenko Evgenia Korotova Elena Kurganskaja Natal’ja Mishin Igor’ Oreshkina Anna Lukashova Anna Khazanov Juriy Korzhova Anna Kurochkina Elena Mishina Elena Oreshkina Natalia Lukichev Vladislav Khiller Diana Koshechkin Dmitry Kurochkina Ol’ga Moiseeva Evgenia Orlov Nikita Lunina Nelli Khotina Maria Koshechkina Irina Kurysheva Marina Mokhova Valentina Orlova Tat’jana Luzgina Elena Khryukin Nikita Kostin Aleksey Kushnerenko Dmitry Monastyreсkiy Jaroslav Oschepkov Vasiliy Luzhenkov Andrey Kir’janova Maria Kostyuk Galina Kustova Maria Moroz Vera O'Shey Natal’ja Lyupaeva Natal’ja Kireeva Irina Kostyuk Ol’ga Kustova Svetlana Mosakova Maria Osipovich Ekaterina Majorov Aleksandr Kirijenko Maria Kotlov Kirill Kuvshinov Aleksandr Moskvina Jana Osipyuk Nelli Makarycheva Natalia Kiryukhina Ekaterina Kotosonova Julia Kuz’menko Viktoria Motuzenko Andrey Osokina Maria Makeeva Larisa Kiryushkina Elena Kovalev Grigoriy Kuz’mich Sergey Mulkidzhanjan Lidia Ostrovidova Ekaterina Makeeva Marina Kiryutkina Elena Kovaleva Ol’ga Kuzneсov Aleksandr Murashkevich Denis Ovsyannikova Tat’jana Makhnutin Andrey Kishilova Svetlana Kovalyuk Stanislav Kuzneсova Julia Muratov Mikhail Pal Vladimir Maksakovskiy Nikolay Kitain Mikhail Kozhemyaka Nikita Kuzneсova Natal’ja Murtazin Rustam Pal’chikova Tat’jana Maksimova Ekaterina Klark Khizer Kozhukhova Raisa L’vov Nikolay Muzyka Boris Panchenko Aleksey Mal’tsev Il’ja Klepaсkaja Tat’jana Kozina Elena L’vova Nina Muzykantov Denis Panferova Tat’jana Malakhov Sergey Klimenko Ivan Kozlov Dmitry L’vova-Krajeva Ol’ga Na Jun Kin Anna Panfilova Polina Malinina Svetlana Klimov German Kozlov Juriy Ladur Dar’ja Naumenko Aleksey Panfilova Vera Malkov Aleksandr Kobylkina Marina Kozlova Dar’ja Lairova Antonina Naumov Maksim Pankratov Konstantin Manakova Svetlana Kochetkov Aleksandr Kozlova Maria Lait Michael Naumova Nadezhda Parfenov Dmitry Mar’in Aleksandr Kokorin Aleksey Kozlovskaja Ekaterina Laktanova Alisa Nazarova Inga Parmenov Kirill Mar’ina Anastasia Kolesnik Elena Krajneva Maria Lapina Larisa Nechaev Aleksandr Parshkova Diana Mar’ina Nadezhda Kolesnik Fedosiy Krajnikov Anatoliy Lapshin Konstantin Nepenkina Natal’ja Parshukova Marina Markina Ol’ga Kolmakov Nikita Arsen’jevich Krakhin Vitaliy Lapshina Anna Nesterenko Elena Partin Il’ja Markova Anna Kolomenskaja Elena Krakhina Natalia Laskin Juriy Nesvetajlo Oksana Pavlichenkov Andrey Martynov Andrey Kolosov Denis Anatol’jevich Krapotkina Tat’jana Laskina Ol’ga Nikanorova Tat’jana Pavlov Nikolay Masalova Natal’ja Kolosova Roksana Krasovskiy Oleg Laukhin Jan Nikiforov Andrey Pavlova Elena Mashkov Filipp Kolosova Tat’jana Kravchenko Vera Lazareva Lada Nikiforov Viktor Pechorin Sergey Mashkov Valentin Komarov Valeriy Kretova Elena Lebedenko Lyudmila Nikiforova Julia Perepelova Svetlana Maslov Evgeniy Komlev Vyacheslav Krichevskiy Daniil Lebedev Juriy Nikitina Natal’ja Peresypkina Galina Matskevich Il’ja Komolov Anton Krivosheeva Irina Lebedev Mikhail Nikolajshvili Gyuzella Persijaninova Elena Matyushevskaja Ol’ga Kondakova Anna Kruglov Pavel Lebedeva Vera Nikulin Igor’ Petrova Oksana Mazur Marina

«We shan’t save all we should like to, but we shall save a great deal more, than if we had never tried.» ANNUAL REPORT WWF-Russia 2008 37 Sir Walter Scott, one of the founders of WWF EARTH KEEPERS IN 2008

Petrova Ol’ga Ryabochkina Natal’ja Shevchuk Svetlana Styuf Ivan Vavilova Maria Zhuravlev Dmitry Petukhov Sergey Ryazanov Andrey Shevсov Valeriy Subbotina Galina Vedeneev Aleksey Zhuravskiy Oleg Pikulya Vladimir Ryndina Olesja Shilova Anna Survillo Vitaliy Vedernikov Aleksandr Zhurbenko Aleksey Pilipeс Oleg S’janova Natalia Shipiсin Vitaliy Suvorova Ol’ga Veselov Fedor Zhurbinskaja Galina Pinaeva Veronika Sabirov Timur Shishlov Sergey Svarnik Tat’jana Veselova Irina Zinov’jeva Anna Pisarev Plamen Sablina Maria Shishova Tat’jana Syutkin Valeriy Vetrova Tat’jana Zlobina-Bashkanyan Oksana Piterskaja Ol’ga Sadovina Vera Shper Aleksandr Tal’nikov Dmitry Vilkov Grigoriy Znatdinova Tat’jana Piterskiy Juriy Sadovov Stanislav Shtatnov Mikhail Tarasova Inna Vindman Leonid Zorina Nadezhda Plotnikov Aleksandr Safiulin Il’dar Shul’man Dmitry Tarasova Natalia Vinogradov Dmitry Zotov Pavel Al. Poddubnaja Elena Safronov Nikas Shunajeva Maria Tarazevich Dmitry Vinogradova Elena Zotov Pavel An. Podgorenko Sergey Safronov Sergey Shut’ Igor’ Tatarenko Egor Vinokur Il’ja Zotova Lyudmila Poletaeva Vera Safronova Ekaterina Shvarс Evgeniy Teplukhina Maria Vladislavov Vladimir Zubkova Anastasia Polnikov Aleksey Sajgushev Andrey Sidorova Nadezhda Terekhov Mikhail Vladislavova Anastasia Zuev Valeriy Polyanichko Elena Sakharov Evgeniy Siniсyna Viktoria Timonov Mikhail Vladislavova Nadezhda Zvereva Tat’jana Polyanskaja Irina Sakharova Lyudmila Sivak Tamara Tkachenko Evgeniy Vlasov Aleksey Zyabrina Diana Polyanskaja Varvara Samiullina Maria Skorodenko Vladimir Tkachev Dmitry Vlasov Andrey Zybkin Andrey Ponomarenko Aleksey Samsonov Pavel Skorokhodov Viktor Tolmanova Ol’ga Vnukova Marina Сarev Il’ja Ponomarenko Anastasia Sankov Vseslav Slavina Anna Tolstaja Ol’ga Volkov Juriy Сvetkov Mikhail Popandopulo Irina Sargsyan Asya Smirnov Gennadiy Tolstukhina Julia Volkov Sergey Сyganova Natalia Popov Aleksey Sarkisyan Karen Smirnova Elena Tomash Sergey Volkov Viktor Popov Aleksey Saujer Derk Smirnova Ksenia Tonkacheev Dmitry Volodin Igor’ ST-PETERSBURG AND THE LENINGRAD REGION Popov Gavriil Savel’jeva Julia Smoljakov Andrey Trakhtenberg Elena Volodina Ol’ga Alekseeva Ol’ga Popov Vsevolod Sedova Irina Snigirova Tat’jana Tremaskina Ol’ga Volokitina Evgenia Aleshinсev Evgeniy Popova Irina Sedykh Sergey Sokolov Aleksey Tret’jakov Juriy Volshanik Valeriy Andreeva Natal’ja Popovicheva Natal’ja Selendeeva Oksana Sokolov Boris Troiсkiy Artemiy Volzhin Dmitry Andryuschenko Juriy Pritvorov Sergey Selezneva Ekaterina Sokolov Oleg Tron’ Il’ja Vorob’jeva Anna Anikina Ol’ga Propper Maria Selezneva Nina Sokolov Renat Turkin Dmitry Voronin Andrey Ermakova Anna Prudnikova Diana Semin Vyacheslav Sokolova Elena Turkina Ol’ga Voronсov Andrey Gagarin Aleksandr Pugacheva Elena Senyukova Julia Sokolova Ol’ga Tuzova Tat’jana Vostrikova Svetlana Gazizova Natal’ja Pushkova Elena Sergeev Andrey Sokolovskaja Tat’jana Tynkovan Aleksandr Vshivkov Pavel Gorbatenkova Ol’ga Rajnova Maria Sergeeva Dar’ja Solomina Natal’ja Tyunyaeva Elena Vysochina Anna Ivanova Svetlana Ratnikov Aleksandr Sergeeva Tat’jana Solov’jeva Margarita Ushakov Dmitry Vystorobeс Anna Ivashinсova Valentina Redozubova Margarita Sevast’janova Evgenia Sosin Sergey Ushakova Ol’ga Zabelina Ekaterina Khalikov Ravshan Reutсkaja Julia Severсev Vladislav Sotov Aleksandr Utesheva Dina Zajсeva Julia Khar’kova Irina Reznikov Andrey Sevost’janov Valentin Sovost’janov Igor’ Utolin Dmitry Zajсeva Marina Khudyakova Svetlana Rit Dmitry Shadricheva Natalia Spivak Leonid Vagner Irina Zal’vovskiy Andrey Kolesova Irina Rivkina Julia Shaposhnikov Dmitry Stankevich Dar’ja Vajner Vladimir Zalevskiy Arkadiy Kolodyazhnaja Julia Rodin Dmitry Sharapova Arina Starkova Anna Vaksova Ekaterina Zaribko Aleksandra Kormiliсin Nikolay Rodionov Andrey Shashkova Veronika Starсeva Ol’ga Vantorin Vyacheslav Zaryanich Vadim Kormiliсina Tat’jana Rodionova Ol’ga Shashkova Veronika Stepanov Valeriy Varenikova Larisa Zemlyanovskaja Ekaterina Kostina Anzhelika Romanova Ekaterina Shaul’skaya Oksana Stepanova Vera Varvar’jeva Elena Zenchev Kirill Kozlovskiy Anton Romanova Elena Shestakov Aleksandr Stepanyatova Elena Vasil’jev Denis Zhdanova Natalia Kudrin Andrey Rozhkova Elena Shevchenko Elena Sterlyagova Elena Vasil’jeva Elena Zhil’nikov Sergey Kuvardina Ol’ga Rukin Viktor Shevchenko Svetlana Strel’nikov Aleksey Vasil’jeva Larisa Zhirov Igor’ Manida Il’ja Runov Dmitry Shevchuk Dmitry Strongin Semen Vasilishin Eduard Zhukov Valeriy

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Naumova Lyudmila Kychakov Aleksandr (Sovetskaja Gavan’) Oparina Tat’jana (Irkutsk) Shlapak Nina (Tobol’sk) Osmolovskaja Tat’jana Kychakova Anna Chepсova Maria (Tol’jatti) Kozlova Elena (Dzerzhinsk) Osinovskiy Vladislav (Barnaul) Skopeс Kristina (Krasnojarsk) Parfenova Tat’jana Nikolaeva Nadezhda Chernov Andrey (Krasnojarsk) Pikalova Evelina Novgorodov Pavel Kukunov Oleg (Rostov-Na- Ostanina Nadezhda Smirnova Irina (Juzhnoural’sk) Doroshuk Alina Donu) (Khabarovsk) Polyakov Aleksandr Pertsev Viktor (Nizhnevartovsk) Sorokin Dmitry (Korolev) Prikota Aleksandr Rabinovich Elena Kurasova Anna (Rostov-Na- Otto Ekaterina (Chelyabinsk) Dovbysh Irina (Noril’sk) Donu) Stepanovich Elena (Rostov- Runeva Elena Scherban’ Valeriy Pazenko Elena Na-Donu) Salazhova Tat’jana Sotnikov Aleksandr Dumnov Aleksandr (Yoshkar- Kuz’mina Ol’ga (Krasnodar) (Nizhnevartovsk) Serbina Ol’ga Sukharev Vadim Ola) Tkacheva Irina (Krasnodar) Kuznetsova Anna Petrov Aleksandr (Khabarovsk) Shurakov Vladimir Ermakov Dmitry (Izhevsk) Tsypkina Julia (Omsk) Soldatova Galina VLADIVOSTOK Kvashnin Vladimir (Irkutsk) Piliсyn Nikolay (Cherepoveс) Avseenko Maria Fedorova Anastasia (Belgorod) Tysyachnyj Artem Stanchinskaja Elena Larionova Tamara (Magadan) Pitovskiy Konstantin (Vsevolozhsk) Subbotina Tat’jana Darman Juriy Frejman Eduard (Murmansk) (Khabarovsk) Efimova Elena Lebed’ Aleksey (Abakan) Vakhitova Alsu (Ufa) Titov Oleg Galichev Aleksandr (Bryansk) Pogorel’skikh Mikhail (Rostov- Tsay Julia Gil’fanova Anna Letnikova Irina (Krasnodar) Na-Donu) Vasilevskaja Natal’ja Tumanov Nikolay Karakin Vladimir Ganina Ekaterina (Sortavala) (Murmansk) Lylova Natal’ja (Voronezh) Pronnikov Aleksey (Omsk) Tyshkevich Aleksandr Koshelev Viktor Glotova Tat’jana (Rostov-Na- Vasilevskiy Valeriy (Murmansk) Vovk Svetlana Odintsov Vyacheslav Donu) Madsen Marta (Elizovo) Pugacheva Ksenia (Nizhniy Titova Svetlana Novgorod) Vol’per Irina (Omsk) Zimodro Juriy Golovacheva Elena (Khanty- Malyutov Vladislav (Nizhniy Vasil’jev Vadim Mansijsk) Novgorod) Rachin Konstantin (Tol’jatti) Vorob’jev Aleksandr (Orel) EKATERINBURG AND THE Vojtyshin Nikolay SVERDLOVSK REGION Golovin Aleksandr (Irkutsk) Mamchich Mikhail (Volgograd) Rizakhanov Garun Vostreсov Vladimir (Makhachkala) (Chelyabinsk) Artsybashev Aleksandr OTHER REGIONS Il’icheva Anna (Tol’jatti) Manukhin Aleksey Fedorov Mikhail (Khabarovsk) Rovda Oleg (Krasnojarsk) Zagorskaja Natal’ja Amutnykh Nikolay Ischenko Natal’ja (Khabarovsk) Gervas’jev Anton (Khabarovsk) Massarova Viktoria Rudakova Elena (Nizhniy Zakharov Dmitry (Kazan’) Ivanova Anna Ivanov Aleksey (Murmansk) (Nizhnevartovsk) Novgorod) Anan’jeva Nadezhda Koval’ Elena Zenina Natal’ja (Kazan’) (Krasnojarsk) Jur’jev Nikolay (Izhevsk) Medvedeva Maria (Rostov-Na- Ryabchenko Julia (Omsk) Kremzukova Tat’jana Donu) Zherebyat’jeva Ol’ga Luchko Nikolay Anashkin Aleksandr Kalenchenko Mikhail Ryzhkin Andrey (Voronezh) (Chelyabinsk) (Severomorsk) (Murmansk) Misan Gennadiy (Irkutsk) Mel’nikova Ekaterina Safiulina Larisa (Miass) Zverev Evgeniy (Tol’jatti) P’jankov Aleksandr Anikeeva Irina (Magnitogorsk) Kalinin Oleg (Tol’jatti) Morgun Dmitry (Omsk) Sannikova Irina (Abakan) P’jankov Aleksey Anokhina Natalia (Kostroma) Kapustin Vladimir Murav’jev Denis (Nizhniy OTHER COUNTRIES P’jankov Pavel (Vsevolozhsk) Novgorod) Saprykin Oleg (Tol’jatti) Bakulina Irina (Surgut) Bisembaev Alimzhan P’jankova Ekaterina Kashirina Tat’jana (Severo- Myslyajev Valeriy Sarycheva Svetlana (Obninsk) (Kazakhstan) P’jankova Tat’jana Baranovskaja Tat’jana Zadonsk) (Chelyabinsk) Stel’makh Tat’jana (Samara) Savchuk S. V. (Krasnodar) Goldstein Bit (Switzerland) Katajev Maksim (Ufa) Narajkina Tat’jana (Zarinsk) Zimina Alena Belov Nikolay (Obninsk) Savostina Svetlana (Samara) Khutyz Zaur Khomyakova Viktoria Nikolajev Igor’ (Nizhniy NOVOSIBIRSK AND THE Berezin Konstantin (Krasnojarsk) Novgorod) Semenova Elena (Tver’) Kiselev Stanislav (Ukraine) NOVOSIBIRSK REGION (Kaliningrad) Kirpischikov Juriy (Tyumen’) Okhotina Evgenia (Novyj Sergienko Vladimir (Sochi) Schwede Georg (Switzerland) An Juriy Borsch Tat’jana (Jaroslavl’) Kremenkul’) Bersenev Evgeniy Kitajeva Marina (Irkutsk) Serov Stanislav (Samara) Shkuropat Galina (Ukraine) Bratkova Svetlana Chimarova Julia Okulova Svetlana (Khanty- (Svetlogorsk) Kopachelli Larisa (Sochi) Mansijsk) Shershenkova Svetlana Sobakina Elena (Switzerland) Dubkov Mikhail (Magadan) Bulatova Svetlana (Jaroslavl’) Stapel Allard (Netherlands) Kedrinskaja Natalia Koshelev Dmitry (Tyumen’) Ol’shanskaja Elena (Volgograd) Shkadova Tat’jana (Smolensk) Kravchinskiy Igor’ Butorina Irina (Tver’) Kostomarov Sergey

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We would like to thank all of those who, in 2008, spread the word about WWF programmes, who helped carry out our events and actions, and who distributed WWF’s public service announcement free of charge.

Companies and Institutes FOTOLAB 5 Stars Cinema Free cards Academy of Russian Television Google Russia and You Tube Adekvat Advertising Agency HeadHunter.ru Afisha Publishing House and Bolshoy Iceberry Gorod Magazine IKEA AKOS Independent Media Sanoma Magazines All Russia Interregional Press Agency Institute of Energy Systems Artefaq KOM studio, St. Petersburg ASKO KubanAgroProd BBDO Advertising Agency Lavazza Canon LCD media In December of 2008, around 70 Centre of Perspective Projects Live Journal journalists covered WWF’s Chateau Le Grand Vostok winery Lufthansa «greenest christmas tree in Moscow» event on Red Square. Coca-Cola Matrix production © Alexander Evgrafov / WWF-Russia Creolab Advertising Agency MAXI POST Delivery Service Cross-Media Advertising Agency M-City Postal Service Mirax Group, Aminona Luxury Resort Natur Park and Village Drevo Art Gallery Medved Hunting reserve, Primorsky Nespresso region Moscovites for Tramways Estee Lauder (DKNY, BE Delicious Newsland brands) MEGA Belaya Dacha Moscow veterans fund Odnoklassniki.ru European Media Group and Radio 7 MEGA Khimki Multon Openspace.ru EYE DO Film MEGA Tyopliy Stan Munchies Organizatsya Vremeni Ferrero Mercury Bank, Vladivostok National Press Institute Fly cards Photo Gallery of the Krasnoyarsk

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Museum Centre Komsomolskaya Pravda Billiard Sport Eurasia Segodnya Planeta Inform Agency Lesa Rossii Biographia Expert Plastic Media Lesnaya Gazeta Bolshoi Gorod Extreme force Magazine ProfMedia Holding Moskauer Deutsche Zeitung Bolshoi Sport Ezhenedelniy Zhurnal Propaganda Ogilvy Advertising Agency Moskovskaya Pravda Bolshoy Biznes Fashion week RTM Moskovskie Novosti Bon Ton Fly&Drive Russia without cars Nezavisimaya Gazeta Bravo Forbes Russian-German Exchange Novaya Gazeta Business Week Formula Zdorovya SmitHartman Noviye Izvestiya CAR Foto travel Sozvezdie Energeticheskih Resheniy Prirodno-Resursnye Vedomosti Chip Detyam Frantsiya St.Petersburg State University and Rossiyskaya Gazeta Cosmo Shopping FreeTimeCity personally Svetlana Chernikova Rossiyskaya Lesnaya Gazeta Cosmo-Beauty Gala State fund of television and radio programmes Rossiyskaya Okhotnishya Gazeta Cosmo-Magia GEO State Television and Radio Company The Moscow news Cosmopolitan GEO Focus «Yugoria» The Moscow times Cosmo-Sibir GEO Traveller Swiss Air Tribuna Cosmo-Ural Geolyonok Tecon Trud Delovoye Sovershenstvo Glamour TNT-expo Vechernyaya Moskva Dengi I Blagotvoritelnost Gloria Trafic Agency, St. Petersburg Vedomosti Dinamo Gold Mustang Troyka Dialog Vlastnaya Vertikal Federatsii Diners club Gorod Zhenshin Utro.ru Vremya Novostey Discovery Harper’s Bazaar VTB Bank branch, Vladivostok Dive Tek Magazine Imeesh Pravo We live on one Planet Photo project Magazines Doctor travel Ineit Aeroflot Domashniy Doctor Isskustvo Upravleniya Media AEROFLOT in-flight magazine Domashniy Ochag Itogi Russkaya Mysl Newspaper, France Afisha Domashniy Rebyonok IVAN Afisha Mir Ekologia I Zhizn Kommersant-Dengi MOSCOW Animal style Ekspeditsya Kompania Arkticheskaya Idea ELLE Krestyanka Newspapers Arnold Style Magazine ELLE girl Kultpokhod Argumenty I Fakty Avtomobili I Skidki Energy, Ecology, Economy Landshaft Plus Izvestia Biblioteka Vavilona Energy, Ecology, Economy Landshaftniy Disain Kommersant

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Letniye Terrasy Panorama Klub Seventeen Vybiray Lichnoye Vremya Parad Shtab-Kvartira Where Moscow Light Passage Shtuchka XXL Liniya polyota Pets SIBIR in-flight magazine Yes! Lyubimaya Dacha Podvodniy Klub Sibir Press ID You magazine Men’s Health Politicheskiy Zhurnal Sibiryachka Young Traveller (National Geographic) Millioniare International Populyarnaya Mekhanika Skies & Snowboards Za Rubezhom MINI Predelnaya Glubina Smena Zdorovye Shkolnika Mirovaya Energetika Pro sport Sportivnaya Rossiya Zhenskie sekrety Modern PRO Sport SSE Russia Magazine Zhurnalist Modniy Magazin Profil Story Znanie-sila Modniy Sezon Promyshlennaya bezopasnost TekhnoGid I Ekologia Moscow Nights Top manager TV companies Ptitsy, ryby, zveri Motorz TopBashnya and channels Put I Voditel Motozhurnal Transaero in-flight magazine 1st Channel CIS Puteshestvia po Svetu Mountain Biker Travel + Leisure Channel 3 (Moskoviya Television and Putevoditel po Internetu Radio Broadcasting Company) My holidays Trend Rastenia v Interyere Domashniy Na Novoy Rige Tsvetniki Rasti Pervoklashka NEO TV Na Rublyovke Turbiznes Reader’s Digest NTV National Export Today Turisticheskiy Olymp Real Estate NTV-Media Nauka I Tekhnika UT Air in-flight magazine Restorany Sankt-Peterburga O2 TV Neftegazovaya vertikal Vanderbilt Rezepty Uspeshnogo Biznesa Ocean TV Neptun XXI Vek Vash dosug Robb Report Russia Rambler TeleSet Nicotiana Aristocratica Vassiliy Rovesnik RBK-TV Novaya Federazia Vim Avia Russian Newsweek Rossiya Novoye v Stomatologii Vogue Russkiy vzglyad Russia Today Nozh VOLVO Magazine Sad Svoimi Rukami SGY TV Ogonyok Voyage Sakvoyazh Stolitsa Okhota Voyage I Otdykh SamaYa TeleInform OM Vsyo dlya Doma Samodelka TNT Ona Vsyo dlya Sada Seasons TVC Oops Vsyo Yasno

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Zveada Ostrov А1TV Sekret Firmy During the Car Free Day, SPN Publishing the panda became the Radio Zdes I Seychas star of many televised BBC interviews. City FM News agencies Golos Rossii Agency of Social Information Mayak Interfax Nashe Radio ITAR-TASS Radio Purga RBK Radio Rossii Regnum Radio Svoboda Reuters Radio Zenit St.-Petersburg RIA Novosti Russkaya Sluzhba Novostey

UN Radio © WWF-Russia Illuminated Publishing houses board and screens IVM news Plasmavision Volgograd 7 Dney 3Stars KSD-Group Prime Afisha 5 Stars Cinema LCD media T-Modul Exhibition Centre Afisha Industries 7 Continent Supermarkets Magitel Video International Plazma Arnold Prize Alternativniye seteviye Telesistemi Manezhnaya Ploschad Managing Company Axel Springer Russia Astart Luxe ST. PETERSBURG Marshrut-TV Condenast ATV-Media Digitalads Monitors Mirax TV Forward media group City Advertising KTV Peterhof Online TV Geocentre Group Cityvision Leningradskoye Regionnoye TV Orion city Gruner + Jahr AG & Co KG CityVision Telesystems LespromInform Passazhir TV Independent Media Sanoma Magazines Displays advertising systems Magazines: Peren TV Krestyanka Edinaya Evropa Holding Regionalniy Institut Pressi Pervoye Marshrutnoye TV LK Press Farmkom Media Managing Company Top-manager Petrov Complex Magazines Fitness TV U-Journal SSE Russia Plasmavision Mediacrat Gallary media ZOO-Peterburg Plasmavision Ural Nexion Publishing ITM

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ARKHANGELSK RUSSIA FAR EAST Regional News Agencies KHABAROVSK REGION TV Ecological Press Clubs Deita.RU Khabarovskiy Express AGTRK Pomorye Araliya, Birobidzhan Ekho-DV Khabarovskiye Vesti ATK-Media – Archangelsk city TV Kedr, Blagoveschensk News.Vl.Ru KP-Khabarovsk Lesniye Zhurnalisty, Khabarovsk PrimaMedia, Vladivostok Mestnoye Vremya Public and Outdoor Poslednyaya Sreda, Vladivostok Vostok-Media Molodoy Dalnevostochnik Advertising Bureaus of Russian Television Radio Stations Nash Gorod Broadcasting Companies MediaBus Advertising Agency Lemma, Vladivostok Priamurskiye Vedomosti 5 channel St. Petersburg Pervoye Marshrutnoye TV – Primorskoye Radio, Vladivostok State Tikhookeanskaya Zvezda Arkhangelsk Channel 1 Television and Radio Company NTV VBC, Vladivostok AMUR REGION Newspapers RTR Vostok Rossii, Khabarovsk AIF-Dalniy Vostok and magazines TVC Newspapers: Amurskaya Pravda ARKHANGELSK Television Broadcasting Companies Primorski Region and Channels Blagoveschensk Business Class AiF – Primorye Alpha-Kanal, Blagoveschensk Dilizhans Lesniye Novosti Argumenty nedeli Amur State Television and Radio KP-Blagoveschensk Lesnoy Region Company, Blagoveschensk Arsenyevskiye vesti Zeiskiy vestnik Pravda Severa Bira State Television and Radio Dalnevostochniye Vedomosti Zeya Company, Birobidzhan Volna Khasanskiye Vesti Dalnevostochnaya State Television and Radio Company, Khabarovsk KP-Vladivostok EVREYSKAYA AUTONOMOUS REGION News agencies Gorod Television Company, Narodnoye Veche Dvina Inform Blagoveschensk Nashe vremya Birobijaner Stern Ecological website of the Arkhangelsk Litsa, Vladivostok Novosti Birobidzhanskaya Zvezda Region (www.arkheco.ru) Panorama Information TV Agency, Primorskaya Gazeta Ragnum Vladivostok Rossiyskaya Gazeta Magazines Rosbalt-Sever Primorye Public Television, Vladivostok Rybak Primorya Rodnoye Priamurye, Khabarovsk REGION Channel, Zeya Svezhiy Veter Primorya Zov Taigi, Vladivostok BRATSK TNT - Vladivostok Vestnik Spasska My Television Broadcasting Company TRIO-Khabarovsk Information Agency Vladivostok EKATERINBURG TV-Gubernia, Blagoveschensk Vybor Magazines VORONEZH TV-Gubernia, Khabarovsk Zolotoy Rog Kolumb Oxygen Magazine Vladivostok State Television and Radio Company Shagay

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Sport’s Russian Academy Sciences Severniy Kavkaz Postskriptum Vybiray Soblazny Bolshogo Goroda Kamchatsky Exhibition Centre Yuzhniy reporter Pozitiv Russian University of Cooperation, Rossiyskaya Gazeta Kamchatka Radio Maximum Internet Agencies Strana Sibiria DP.Ru Svobodniy Kurs KRASNODAR AND YUZHNIY IRKUTSK FEDERAL DISTRICT KubanInfo Syevodnyashnyaya gazeta Baikal-TV Yuga.Ru Tsentr Azii Television Broadcasting Zver Yuga Usadby Sibiri KAMCHATKA Companies and Channels Vecherniy Krasnoyarsk Newspapers Novoye televidenie Kubani Information Agencies Zapolyarnaya Pravda, Norilsk Rybak Kamchatki Sochi State Television and Radio Interfax - Yug TV, radio Vesti Company RIA Novosti - Yug Afontovo Television and Radio Company Zapovednaya territoriya TV Maks Advertising companies Altai Television Broadcasting Company Altai Transgranichniy TV Radio Ok Press Katun Television and Radio Company TRIO Information Agency Pervoye Radio KRASNOYARSK Radio 107 AND ALTAI-SAYAN Krasnoyarskaya Television TVK Television Broadcasting Company Broadcasting Company Russkaya Sluzhba Novostey - Newspapers Krasnodar Noviy Vyek Television Broadcasting Radio Abakan Company Altayskaya Pravda Russkoye Radio - Barnaul Kamchatskoye TV and Radio Magazines Argumenty I Fakty STS-Prima Energiya Yuga Dom snaruzh i vnutri Telesfera-7 Information agencies Kavkazskiye Avialinii and Internet: Khakasiya TV Yenisey-Region Kurorty I Turizm Kommersant FishKamchatka.ru Tyva Television Broadcasting Company Realniy Biznes Krasnoyarskaya Gazeta Lach Ethnic and Ecological Information Vesti-Altai Territoria Centre Krasnoyarskiy rabochiy Yeniseiskoye Radio, Abakan Milkovo.ru Lesnaya Gazeta News agencies Newspapers VestiPK.ru Listok 24rus.ru Independent News Agency Delovaya gazeta - Yug Magazines Altapress Information Agency Komsomolskaya Pravda - Kuban Companies and Institutes MOST Amitel Kubanskiye Novosti Akros Nash Krai Federal Press Information Agency Novaya Gazeta Kamchatka Branch of Pacific Institute Navodka Turistu Khakasya Information Agency of Geography, Far Eastern Branch

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Newslab Nenetskiy Information Analytical Centre PSKOV Bakhtin Viktor REGNUM–NEWS Nenetskiy State Nature Reserve TV and radio Banina Tatyana RIA Press-line Park Inn Polyarnye Zori Hotel Pskov City Television Baranov Piotr RIA Sibir Sberbank Rossii Pskov State Television and Belko Nikolay Broadcasting Company Sibirskoye News Agency Blinnikob Viktor Telecom Sibterra Travel web portal Newspapers Bok Alexey Information portals Tyva-Online and Magazines: Bormotov Maksim Forest Industrialist’s Portal Murmanskiy Vestnik Bush Vladimir Forest.ru Companies Polyarnaya Pravda Chaplinskiy Kirill Pskov News Agency SIMEDIA Yellow Pages Rybnye Resursy Chikin Alexander Pskovskaya lenta novostey Shopping in Murmansk Chistyakov Yuriy Newspapers and magazines MURMANSK Chugaev Alexander Lesnaya Rossiya Magazine TV and Radio Chumakov Sergey LesPromInform Magazine Organizations and Blits Davkaev Evgeniy Novosti Pskova companies Murman Television Broadcasting Delvin Nikolay Company Pskovskaya Guberniya Administration of Nenetskiy Doroshenko Nikolay Autonomous Region Power Hit Radio Pskovskaya Pravda Dyukarev Vladimir Directorate of Regional Protected areas TV 21 Pskovskaya Provintsya of the Murmansk Region Filonov Vladimir Strugi, village Strugi Krasniye Garmonichnoye Razvitie Ecological Golovin Artyom News agencies Vremya Pskovskoye Foundation Gorinov Evgeniy Murmansk Business News mbnews.ru Kandalakshskiy State Nature Reserve Goroshko Oleg Murmansk Business Portal YAKUTIA Knipovich Polar Research Institute of Gudkov Andrey Marine Fisheries and Oceanography Yakutia Newspaper, Yakutsk Gudkov Andrey KolaRegionErergoSbyt Advertising Agencies Ignatenko Sergey Kolskiy Centre of Biodiversity Design Bureau Premiart Conservation WWF is grateful Ivanitskiy Igor Navi Advertising Agency Ministry of Natural Resources and to photographers Kalmykov Igor Ecology of the Murmansk Region Raditsa Publications Centre and artists who have Kartashov Nikolay Murmansk Marine Biology Institute Severo-Zapadniy Konsalting of Kola Scientific Center of Russian provided their works Kashintseva Tatiana Academy of Sciences free of charge: Khaytman Igor CHUKOTKA Murmansk Regional Department Kirillyuk Vadim of Russian Federal Service for Purga Radio Nature Management Oversight Kischenko Sergey (Rosprirodnadzor) Artyukhin Yury Arylov Yuri Klimov Vassiliy

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Kochineva Anna Popov Alexander Kochnev Anatliy Posokhin Artyom Konstantinov Igor Ratnikov Alexander Krasnov Yuriy Rudakov Yuriy Krestov Pavel Sankov Vseslav Kruglov Leonid Sertun Vladimir Kuchma Dmitry Shalikov Gennady Kudryashov Vladimir Shpilenok Dmitry Kuzhavskiy Sergey Shpilenok Igor Kuznetsov Nikolay Shpilenok Tikhon Kuznetsov Sergey Sklyarova Marina Lange Anton Sobolev Sergey Lemeshev Konstantin Sokolenko William Lnogradskoy Yuriy Solkin Vasily Lotov Alexander Sorokin Pavel The Kreolab company Loyanich Vitaliy Surmach Sergey developed the idea for Lukankin Sergey Tabakayev Ivan this WWF advertisement free of charge. Lukarevskiy Victor Travnikov Vladimir Lukonina Ekaterina Trepet Sergey Lyapustin Sergey Valchuk Olga Maksimov Vassiliy Vikhrev Nikita Medvedev Vladimir Votintsev Alexey Mironov Gennadiy Vysotskiy Mikhail Naymushin Ilya Yakovlev Yuriy Neyfeld Nikolay Yegorchev Ivan Numerov Alexander Yerenkov Alexey Onipchenko Vladimir Yurchenkov Yevgeniy Paltsyn Mikhail Zhivotchenko Viktor Pavlishin Gennadiy Zinchenko Yuriy Permyakov Alexander Permyakov Alexander Petrov Anatoliy

ANNUAL REPORT WWF-Russia 2008 47 THE TOP TEN PUBLICATIONS OF WWF-RUSSIA, 2008

Illegal, Unregulated and Unreported The Impact of Climate Change Pacific Salmon Fishing on Kamchatka on the Russian Arctic, and Paths WWF Russia, in conjunction with the TRAFFIC Europe to Solving the Problem programme, presents data on the condition of Kamchatka's WWF collected scientific observations, eyewitness accounts of salmon stocks, as well as the major importers of Russian local residents, and information about current and forecasted salmon products and the state of the internal market. The damage to the Russian Arctic stemming from climate change. report also analyzes information on forms of poaching, We call upon those people in positions of power to begin and proposes methods of resolving the problem of illegal, taking active measures, directed towards adaptation of the unregulated and unreported fishing. fragile Arctic environment to climate change. Online version: www.wwf.ru/resources/publ/book/313/ Online version: www.wwf.ru/resources/publ/book/308/

Russia and Neighboring Countries: The 2008 Living Planet Report Environmental Protection, and the Regardless of whether we live in the woods or in the heart of Economic and Social Consequences a city, our lives depend on the services provided by Earth's of Climate Change natural systems. WWF's 2008 Living Planet report is a stark In this report, you will find the basic facts of climate change, warning that we are consuming these services too intensively, its causes, and its consequences for both nature and for the faster than nature can recover its capacity to produce them. residents of Russia, Central Asia, Mongolia, and northern However, there are many effective remedies at our disposal to China. WWF and the British charitable organization Oxfam change the current trend. Read about them in the 2008 Living have devoted special attention to those social and economic Planet report. problems that may arise, or be significantly exacerbated, by Online version: www.wwf.ru/resources/publ/book/311/ the changing climate. The report demonstrates that we can avoid catastrophic consequences only by adopting urgent measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and by helping nature and mankind adapt to new conditions. Online version: www.wwf.ru/resources/publ/book/275/

In 2008, WWF released a series of popular publications – 63 Answers to the Questions the so-called «reading package for Copenhagen». They of «Climate Skeptics» will be of use not only to a wide array of readers, but also WWF gathered the most poignant questions on the problem to members of the Russian delegation to the 15th UN of climate change, often cited on the radio, televsion, and in Framework Convention on Climate Change in Denmark, print, and provided short, scientifically-grounded answers. slated for December of 2009, where a new climate Each answer has a link to an internet publication, where one agreement to replace the Kyoto Protocol is expected to can find more detailed information. WWF thanks the British be signed. embassy in Moscow and Terrabio LLC for their support of this publication. Online version: www.wwf.ru/resources/publ/book/259/

48 ANNUAL REPORT WWF-Russia 2008 THE TOP TEN PUBLICATIONS OF WWF-RUSSIA, 2008

A Socio-economic Perspective Species in the Russian Far East on Petroleum Refining in Russia WWF specialists and the wildlife trade monitoring network WWF analyzes the current situation in the Russian petroleum (TRAFFIC) analyze legal and illicit trade in plant and animals refining industry, and its consequences for the environment. species of the Far East. Abundant materials have been The report considers the specifics of government regulation collected over the course of many years by employees of the of the refinieries and the use of oil products, as well as Far East Customs Authority, WWF's Far East chapter, and possible incentives for the production of higher-quality TRAFFIC. These materials will help customs officials, as well motor fuels in Russia. The results of WWF inquiry, the first as enviornmental protection and law-enforcement agencies, of its kind in Russia among domestic oil refining companies, better understand such socio-economic phenomena as reveal possibilities for the «greening» of the industry. poaching and illegal trade in poached products, including Online version: www.wwf.ru/resources/publ/book/302/ what could be termed «contraband.» Online version: www.wwf.ru/resources/publ/book/288/

Practical Guidelines for Identifying High Conservation Value Forests in Russia The Position of Environmental NGOs on WWF actively supports developing the notion of protecting the Social and Ecological Problems of high conservation value forests (HCVF) in Russia. This Energy Production and Transmission brochure will be useful first and foremost to representatives In July 2008, the electric power holding company RAO-UES of forestry companies, agencies responsible for forest Russia completed its restructuring. To ensure continuity of administration, and logging and wood-processing its ecological policies in its daughter companies, and in the enterprises. transfer of responsibility in the sphere of resolving ecological Online version: www.wwf.ru/resources/publ/book/294/ and social problems, RAO-UES conducted negotiations, with non-governmental organizations and the Government of the Russian Federation participating. The position of the NGOs is reflected in this brochure. «I Asked a Salmon...» Questions and Online version: www.wwf.ru/resources/publ/book/262/ Answers About Wild and Farmed Salmon What are wild salmon? How are farmed salmon raised? Why is wild Atlantic salmon better than farmed? Where can you buy Russian fish? What is WWF doing to conserve You can receive these and other publications from WWF wild salmon populations, and what can you do to help? by contacting Brand and Publications Coordinator Julia WWF provides answers to these and other questions in this Kalinicheva ([email protected]), (495) 727- 09 39. illustrated booklet. Electronic versions of our publications can be found at Online version: www.wwf.ru/resources/publ/book/280/ Illicit Trafficking of Wild Plant and Animal http://www.wwf.ru/resources/publ/

ANNUAL REPORT WWF-Russia 2008 49 FUNDING IN 2008

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EXPENDITURES, IN THOUSANDS OF EUROS 1. Biodiversity Conservation in Priority Ecoregions 3,564 45% 6 2. Keeping Our Ecological Footprint within the Biocapacity Limits 1,142 15% 3. Scientific and Methodological Support 644 8% 4. TRAFFIC – WWF and IUCN’s global wildlife 1 trade programme 85 1% 5. Central Asia Programme 832 11% 5 6. Living Planet Programme 884 11% 7. Project administration 676 9% TOTAL 7,827 100% 4

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INCOME, IN THOUSANDS OF EUROS 1. WWF International 391 2 2. WWF-UK 252 3. WWF-Germany 1,023 4. WWF-Netherlands 1,693 5. WWF-US 737 6. WWF-Sweden 829 2 1 7. WWF-Japan 135 21 3 8. Other WWF 180 20 9. UK Forest Agency 54 10. German Ministry for the Environment 285 11. Norwegian Embassy / Norvegian MFA 364 19 12. British Embassy in Russia 57 18 13. TACIS 157 14. CEPF 119 17 4 15. DEZA 45 16 15 16. Other governmental agencies 88 17. NGOs and private foundations 297 14 13 18. Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation 83 19. Corporate fundraising 565 12 20. Individual fundraising 479 11 21. Other sources 44 5 10 9 TOTAL 7,827 8 7 6

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Call: (495) 727 09 39 For many, 2008 will likely be remembered as the year in which the global financial and subsequent economic crises began. Particularly in recent months, the meltdown has eclipsed all other important events of the past year – the presidential elections in Russia and the United States, the armed conflict in Georgia, and so forth. In Chinese, the word «crisis» is written with two characters, one of which denotes «adversity,» and the other, «opportunity.» For us ecologists, this is particularly true. After all, in tough economic times, the energy- and cost-effective use of resources becomes particularly relevant, previously- approved plans for the next massive-scale construction projects, such as the Evenk Hydroelectric Dam, are reconsidered, and conditions arise for a radical overhaul of industrial technologies. Our country arrived at the crisis prepared, to a considerable degree, to employ it towards a fundamental restructuring of the economy. 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