Research Workshop at Muraviovka Nature Park,
9-13 September 1998.
Simba Chan
Crane Flyway Officer
About Muraviovka Park:
Muraviovka Nature Park is
located at the Amur Region of Russia. It is about 90 minutes
drive from the city of Blagoveshchensk. It
is an important breeding and migration stop-over site for Red-crowned
Crane, White-naped Crane, Oriental Stork, and many other waterbirds.
In 1994 the Pop Group Corporation (Japan) granted
financial support to Russian conservationists and about 5,200
hectares of wetland and arable was signed a 50-year lease. In
1996 the Park (Muraviovka Park of Sustainable Land Use) was established
as the first private, non-commercial protected area in Russia
since 1917.
For more information of the Muraviovka Park,
please contact Dr. Sergei Smirenskii:
amur@glas.apc.org
elena.icf@baraboo.com
Research Workshop
The workshop was participated by about 30 researchers
from Russia, China, Korea, Japan and USA. Participants exchanged
information on crane sites and experience in census and research.
A joint census of wintering cranes in North East Asia will be
held in January 1999. A research handbook will be drafted and
published in 1999. Many suggestions had also been made for the
activities of the Crane Network.
The first Working Group meeting for the Crane
Network was also held during the workshop.
Details of the workshop will be published on
the second issue of the Newsletter.
This Research Workshop is financially supported
by the Japan Fund for Global Environment.
Photo gallery of the workshop:

Muraviovka Park

Children art exhibition

Participants of the Workshop
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