Baikal Nature Reserve

Where is it? The Baikal Nature Reserve is a nature reserve in southern Buryatia, Russia, established in 1969 for preserving the nature along the Lake Baikal and central part of the Chamar-Daban Range. The area of this nature reserve is 165,700 hectares.

Flora&Fauna It hosts dark pine taiga (silver fir, cedar, spruce), thin forests, Siberian Dwarf Pine , subalpine meadows, and alpine tundras.

Flora&Fauna The Baikal Nature Reserve is home to 812 kinds of plants, 49 types of mammals, 272 - birds, 3 - reptiles, 3 - amphibians, and 7 types of fish. 

Flora&Fauna The reserve is also home to brown bear, lynx, wolverine, otter, osprey, and golden eagle.

 The Baikal Nature Reserve is part of the World Network of Biosphere Reserves. The reserve is also a part of the Lake Baikal World Heritage Site. The Kabansky Nature Zakaznik was transferred under the jurisdiction of the Baikal Nature Reserve in 1985.

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