Protected areas of Russia

Protected areas of Russia, (official Russian title: Russian: Особо охраняемые природные территории, literally "Specially Protected Natural Areas"), is governed by the corresponding 1995 law of the Russian Federation.

[1] The law establishes the following categories of protected areas: Other areas that are protected in Russia include: On May 21, 2019, the Moscow Times cited a World Wildlife Fund report indicating that Russia now ranks first in the world for its amount of protected natural areas[3] with 63.3 million hectares of specially protected natural areas.

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