WWF reports on five forests threatened with extinction in Russia

Makhachkala, March 21, 2017. The World Wildlife Fund reports on five virgin forest systems in Russia, which we can be lost in the near future. The so-called virgin forests, free of economic activities, transport infrastructure and human’s impact, can totally disappear by 2050 on the planet. Only in Russia over the past 13 years, more than 7.5% of the untouched forests have been lost fr om the total area in the country. According to WWF, each year the country loses the area of forests comparable to six territories of Moscow.

In the near future Russia may lose:

1. The Dvinsko-Pinega massif in Arkhangelsk region, which is the largest in Europe among millennia forests.
2. Samursky forest in Dagestan, in which the only major relict lianas forest in Russia is preserved.
3. Marcotsky ridge along the Black Sea coast. This is the most northerly ecosystem of the Mediterranean type on earth, in which pistachio-juniper and juniper-oak forests grow.
4. Tape burs in the Altai Territory are unique forests that have no analogues in the world, wh ere the trees line up in "ribbons" in the middle of the steppes.
5. Arsenievsky forest in the Khabarovsk Territory, in which the cedar-broad-leaved and spruce-cedar trees grow.