Red book of the Kemerovo region: animals, plants. Reserves of the Kemerovo Region

The Red Book of the Kemerovo Region is growing. Its first volume was published in 2000, by the year 2012, the second part was published in two volumes.

For whom is the Red Book of the Kemerovo Region published?

This book includes animals, birds, mushrooms and plants that exist on the verge of extinction and complete extinction. It is published not only for specialists, but also for ordinary people, not indifferent to what happens to the surrounding nature. The Department of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Kemerovo Region is working to ensure that citizens are eco-literate, hold seminars in children's institutions.

Why do species die out?

Many thousands of years ago, the cause of the extinction of such animals as dinosaurs was the fall of a huge meteorite. The gigantic lizards were replaced by mammoths, but they also completely disappeared. We do not know what variety of animals and grasses died out due to climate change on the planet. In place of one species, others came, able to live in conditions created by the Earth.

Today, the most important reason for the extinction of whole species is man. On the whole planet, people are the only species that takes more than necessary for life. We continuously create conditions for our comfortable living, completely destroying them for many living organisms. Deforestation, pollution of water and air, hunting for pleasure and money are the factors that kill the lives of many representatives of the flora and fauna.

Animals of Siberia on the verge of extinction

Siberia is the beauty and pride of Russia. Since ancient times it is famous for its furs. A harsh land that presented wonderful furs to its wild inhabitants, and afterwards a lot of people living not only in the territory of the country, but also beyond its borders. The Red Book of the Kemerovo Region, whose animals are prescribed in the second edition, has collected one hundred and thirty-five species that are on the verge of extinction. There are as many as fourteen names of mammals, bird species as many as fifty-eight, fifty-one species of rare insects, fish - five species, the rest are worms, amphibians, reptiles and mollusks. Under threat of extinction were such animals as reindeer, otter, Siberian frog, newt, swan-swan, golden eagle, white-tailed eagle, white owl, hoopoe, black stork, already ordinary. This is not the whole list of animals that need human help for conservation.

Red book of Kemerovo region: plants

Few people think that by tearing a beautiful flower, you can become a link in the disappearance of this plant. Hunters for useful roots hurry for profit, not realizing that the threat of extinction is not a joke, it's a sad fact. Many people think that having picked a beautiful bouquet or typing a bucket of mushrooms will not affect the safety of the species. But so many think, so the bucket is not one, but hundreds, thousands of bouquets. The Red Book of the Kemerovo Region in the first volume tells about plants that our grandchildren probably will not see. Licorice, the Ural, European chop, Siberian catchment , iris - this is just a drop in the sea of names of rare plants of Siberia. Every year they are getting smaller and smaller. The Department of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Kemerovo region appeals to stop barbaric treatment of plants and uncontrolled collection of medicinal roots.

Do the reserves help to save lives?

National parks protected by the state are a real protection for many animals and plants from human encroachments. Reserves of the Kemerovo region stretched across Siberia, protecting rare species and helping in the resumption of their population. Here you can not move on cars in areas where animals live, near water bodies, so that no harmful substances enter the water. You can not uncontrolledly hunt and fish. You can not collect plants. At the exit of the reserve cars and bags are carefully checked. If someone takes it into his head to take out "contraband", he will be fined a lot, or even an article, up to imprisonment. Mostly in the reserves of the Kemerovo region come tourists in order to enjoy the wild nature of the Siberian forests, admire the animals and plants, breathe the fresh air, and to remember to take only beautiful unique photos. In the Kemerovo region there are two large reserves - Shorskiy National Park and Kuznetsk Alatau.

Shor National Park

This park is located on the southern side of the Kemerovo region. It is huge - its length is more than one hundred and ten kilometers along, about ninety - across. And this is a truly harsh place. Whole mountain systems with real river valleys. The average temperature in winter is minus twenty five degrees, and in summer the thermometer's column rarely rises to a mark plus seventeen. And wind, wind, wind. In winter, a person who does not know the area, you can simply disappear in the Shorsky Park. The depth of snow here reaches four meters in the lowlands, and in the mountains - two and a half. If you are going to conquer the mountain peaks in this reserve, hire an escort. The Red Book of the Kemerovo Region took many animals from this park under their care. It is a white hare, wolverine, foxes and wolves, otters, a Siberian mole, a black stork, a golden eagle ... and many other species.

Reserve Kuznetsk Alatau

This is a real paradise for lovers of summer heat. The reserve has an area of more than four hundred thousand hectares, in its possessions mountains, rivers, valleys and real Siberian forests, which contain many species of plants protected by law. Winter here is warm and mild, the average temperature of the coldest days is just minus ten. In summer you can also roast on forty-degree heat. The reserve stretched in the center of the Kemerovo region, therefore enjoys the greatest popularity among tourists. Alpine meadows and high-mountain tundra - there is something to see. The red book of the Kemerovo region here also found a lot of wards, without slowing to fit into their pages: Rhodiola rosea, popularly known as the golden root, grows in these forests. Its miraculous properties caused its extinction. Venus shoe, maral root, fir, Siberian cedar pine, elk, sable, maral and roe deer, musk deer, reindeer, golden eagle and black storks are a small part of living creatures and plants that are endangered.

Time to think

Is it not time to think about what will happen to our planet if animals and plants disappear from its face? What will become of humanity itself? Fantastic films, shot by the directors of Hollywood, show a beautiful and carefree existence, where the era of air transport, artificial food and artificial plants is coming. Yes, we have learned to create food from plastic, but how will the life of our descendants develop if we do not leave for them the heritage of nature? It is impossible to imagine that once there will not be a handsome Amur tiger, a majestic deer and a clever elephant. Each blade, every insect created by nature, has the right to life no less than man. The Red Book is a reminder, it's a quiet cry for helping people, an appeal to stop and help, finally, the nature that created us, not to perish from our own hands. In the power of everyone to save the endangered species: hunters - to reduce fishing, collectors - to stop on the achieved, all - to contribute one ruble to support animals and plants. The impossible will become possible only when all are united for a single goal - to save the world from destruction.