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Wednesday, February 2, 2022
Threatened Cranes in the Amur Region of Eastern Russia
Socio-environmental Challenges & Solutions
Presented by Dr. Sergei and Elena Smirenski,
Co-Founders, Muraviovka Park for Sustainable Land Use in the Amur Region of USSR
Threatened Cranes in the Amur Region of Eastern Russia
Socio-environmental Challenges & Solutions
Presented by Dr. Sergei and Elena Smirenski,
Co-Founders, Muraviovka Park for Sustainable Land Use in the Amur Region of USSR
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Building on the work of Sergei and Elena Smirenski, and through collaboration with the International Socio-Ecological Union, the International Crane Foundation, and others, Muraviovka Park for Sustainable Land Use was established in 1994 as the first privately-managed protected area in the Soviet Union. A year later this land and adjacent areas were added to the list of Wetlands of International Importance by the Ramsar Convention. Muraviovka Park boasts over 700 species of vascular plants and over 300 species of birds, including six species of cranes. It is a critically important area for White-naped, Red-crowned and Hooded Cranes, Oriental White Stork, Yellow-
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breasted Bunting, and other avian species on the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List of Threatened Species. The park's activities include monitoring numbers of wild cranes, managing a captive breeding program of endangered cranes to release the cranes into the wild. The park works to prevents forest fires, conducts reforestation, organizes annual international summer camps at Muraviovka Park and in other parts of the Amur River Basin, including China, hosts tourists, and organizes festivals. The 16,000 acres on which this park sits is leased to the park through 2058. Sergei and Elena will update us on the park and its inhabitants.
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Sergei's love of birds started in childhood. In 1970 he began studying the birds of Russia's Far East at Moscow State University, graduating in 1973 and receiving his PhD in Zoology in 1986. Elena graduated from Moscow's Teachers Institute in 1972. She worked as an editor and chief of the editorial staff of the Zoological Journal of the USSR's Academy of Science. In 1980 Sergei and Elena and Sergei Winter established the Crane Working Group of the USSR, the first species-oriented non-government organization in the Soviet Union. Twelve years later with support from the International Crane Foundation (ICF) in Wisconsin, they organized an International Workshop about the cranes and storks of the Amur River Basin.
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The Friends of Muraviovka Park, a volunteer group established in 1998, provides important monetary and in-kind support to the park's activities and development. Read a Report from 2014 on Muriviovka Park eleven years after it was established.
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Note: Club members automatically receive a Zoom link.
Note: Club members automatically receive a Zoom link.
Northeast Ohio Bird Coalition - Advocacy for Safety and Habitat
At the end of our January KBC meeting we discussed starting a coalition of bird-interested organizations to work on making Northeast Ohio more bird-friendly: promoting bird safety and bird habitat in Northeast Ohio through collective action. If you are interested in helping form this coalition or have ideas about what directions the coalition might take, please email info@kirtlandbirdclub.org. In the mean time, take a look at our Bird-Friendly City page.
At the end of our January KBC meeting we discussed starting a coalition of bird-interested organizations to work on making Northeast Ohio more bird-friendly: promoting bird safety and bird habitat in Northeast Ohio through collective action. If you are interested in helping form this coalition or have ideas about what directions the coalition might take, please email info@kirtlandbirdclub.org. In the mean time, take a look at our Bird-Friendly City page.
Winter KBC News!
plan a reality - read that news HERE
* View the CHEERS redevelopment plan for the Cleveland eastside lakefront from Burke
Airport to Cleveland Lakefront Nature Preserve HERE
- The CHEERS project is moving along
plan a reality - read that news HERE
* View the CHEERS redevelopment plan for the Cleveland eastside lakefront from Burke
Airport to Cleveland Lakefront Nature Preserve HERE
- BIRDERS SPOKE UP FOR BIRDS and Got Heard by City of Cleveland - Cleveland Planning Commission approved the Sherwin Williams Headquarters design, but set a contingency that requires Sherwin Williams to address the concerns of our birding community and report back! Read the story HERE
2022 KBC Meetings, Presentations, and Activities
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- First Wednesday of each month - Mark your calendar!
- What's In the Works??
- Birds in Music
- Effect of Weather on Migration
- Cranes in the Far East of Russia
- Sparrow Identification
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