Regional state natural reserves shall be considered territories (water areas) that are of particular importance for the preservation or restoration of natural complexes or their components and maintaining the ecological balance. The proclamation of the territory as a reserve shall be authorized both with and without expropriation from users, owners and landlords of land plots. The provision for use to legal entities of the resources of the reserve necessary for the conduct of traditional nature management and traditional economic activities shall be carried out on the basis of an agreement, for natural persons - on the basis of a permit for the specified use. The purposes of proclamation of natural complexes as reserves shall be as follows: (a) conservation of natural complexes in their natural state; (b) conservation, reproduction of natural resources (objects); (c) maintaining an ecological balance; (d) promotion of nature conservation; and (e) state environmental monitoring. Depending on the specific tasks of protecting the environment and natural resources, reserves may have a different profile, including: (a) complex (landscape), intended for the preservation and restoration of natural complexes (natural landscapes); (b) biological (botanical and zoological), intended for the preservation and restoration of rare and endangered plant and animal species, including valuable species in economic, scientific and cultural terms; (c) paleontological, intended for the preservation of fossil sites; (d) hydrological (marsh, lake, river, sea), designed to preserve and restore the natural regime of valuable waterbodies and ecological systems, as well as adjacent land areas, providing an optimal hydrological balance; (e) geological, designed to preserve valuable objects and complexes of inanimate nature.
Russian Federation · 2013-01-01