1. Kalmykov Vgor, director
The Altaisky Biosphere Reserve: practice management and development in modern conditions 
Kalmykov Vgor,
director

3. The Altaisky Biosphere Reserve
The Altaisky State Nature Biosphere Reserve is one of the very first reserves of Russia (it was established in 1932); this fact is a reliable basis and a guarantee for its biodiversity and natural ecosystems conservation.
Based on the quantity of vascular plant species the Altaisky BR takes the second place in Russia after the Caucasus Biosphere Reserve; by a species variety – within the five of the Russian reserves.
Photos - Sergey Usik

4. Animal world. Rare species.
The following species are inscribed into the Red Data Book of the IUCN: Uncia Uncia Schzeder, Ovis ammon ammon Linnaeus
Photo - Sergey Spitsin

5. Photo - Alexander Lotov
There was a principal change of a management paradigm: a fundamental transition to a new model of conservation and development of a more extensive Biosphere area. Since 2008, according to the Seville Strategy and the Madrid Action Plan, the Altaisky Reserve is a demonstration area for cooperation in nature conservation and sustainable development.
Photo - Alexander Lotov

6. Council of Teletskoye Lake
In 2009, on order to protect Teletskoye Lake and the sustainable management of its resources, a noncommercial partnership “Council of Teletskoye Lake” was created, initiated and supported by the Altaisky BR administration.
Photo - Aleksey Gerasimov

7. Community councils and conservation of biodiversity
Artybashskoe
settlement
Yaylyu
Public councils
settlements Yaylyu, Bele
Bele
Chelushmanskoe
settlement
Participate in the development
of the overall strategy
of co-management
Teletskoye Lake area,
environmental conflict resolution
Participate in environmental
projects and activities
Council
of Teletskoye Lake

8. Altai-Sayan Mountain Partnership
A noncommercial partnership “Altai-Sayan Mountain Partnership” was founded and registered (jointly with the Katunsky BR), 2009.
Projects on granting micro-credits to local population (aimed at ecological tourism development) and projects on research of climate change and adaptation to changes, development of adaptation actions are implemented within the frameworks of the partnership.
With the participation of the Altaisky and Katunsky BRs’ scientific departments, for instance, a partnership program on compensation of a carbon footprint worked out and implemented; trees planting actions, trainings on popularization of an ecologically responsible way of life in climate change conditions are carried out.

10. Photo – Svetlana Shchigreva
Since 2007, the Altaisky Biosphere Reserve has concluded more than 60 agreements and contracts on cooperation (with communities of indigenous small-numbered peoples of Altai, representatives of tourist business, individual businessmen, and NGOs); it has organized and held more than 30 workshops, trainings, and tutorials aimed at involving communities in an anti-poaching activity; it has created 20 jobs in the sphere of ecological tourism and conditions for the development of rural “green” tourism in protected settlements (60 places for lodging tourists).
Photo – Svetlana Shchigreva

11. The partnership project on the ecological route
Information visitor center built in 2010 with the participation of local businessman Michael Kirshin (resident of Artybash)
Photo – Svetlana Shchigreva

12. The participation of local people in providing ecotourism
The Altaisky biosphere reserve has helped create 20 jobs for local people (Yaylyu).
According to official data (2011), the unemployment rate in the village Yaylyu is 0% at the level of unemployment in the area Turochakskiy %, in the Republic of Altai % and in Russia - 7.5%.
Photo – Vadim Kantor

13. Photo – Internet and S. Shchigreva
Regional Nature Park
In 2011, the Ak-Cholushpa Nature Park of a regional status was founded, initiated and supported by the Altaisky BR. It is the Parks’s buffer zone located in a transition zone of the Altaisky Reserve where partnership projects on eco-tourism development are implemented.
Photo – Internet and S. Shchigreva

14. Cooperation with local entrepreneur Ivan Yuzhakov (village Artybash)
Cooperation with local entrepreneur Ivan Yuzhakov (village Artybash). The entrepreneur has restored an abandoned old ship "Pioneer Altai" and created a museum complex with a cinema-ship hall, restaurant and museum exhibits.
Photo – Internet

15. The Media club “Precepts without Borders”
In 2010, the Media club “Precepts without Borders” which unite journalists of mass-media (of regional and federal levels) and give support to nature protection activities and to sustainable development concept was created at the Altaisky Biosphere Reserve.
Photo – Svetlana Shchigreva

16. Programmes on research and conservation of rare species of Altai (guides and instructors at the expeditions, participation in collecting information on habitats of rare species) are implemented with support and participation of local population.
All this (various work with local community, authorities, businesses, tourists) as a result contributes to a sustainable development of the Altaisky BR and to biological diversity and rare species conservation in Altai, such, as Irbis, snow leopard which represents “a real gem in a crown
of Altai.”
Photo – Pavel

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