Home – Home – Jornals – Geography and Natural Resources 2019 number 5S

This article was prepared on the materials held in 2015-2018 of initiative geoinformational assessment of the current level of anthropogenic disturbance in Russia’s natural ecosystems. A new calculation of the wildlife index for biomes and admin istrative-territorial entities of the Far Eastern Federal District is made. The cartographic material shows the current location of protected natural areas of federal and regional significance within the new borders of the Far Eastern Federal District. The Far Eastern protected areas, officially approved in the last decades of the current century, are briefly characterized, special attention is paid to the transboundary conservation problems of rare and threatened species of animals and the created reserves of inter national importance. Summarized geographical information is provided on the ratio of officially protected natural areas and those that have retained their ecological and biospheric potential, but which do not have official status of large areas of wildlife. It is proposed the introduction into the Russian environmental system of a new category of protected areas - «wildlerness reserve», the widespread global counterpart of which are the conservation facilities IUCN «1b» «wilderness» reserves.