Koryak Reserve
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Koryak Reserve - State Nature Reserve, located in the northern part of the Kamchatka Peninsula. The total area of ​​the reserve of more than 327 hectares. Koryak State Nature Reserve - conservation, research and environmental education institution of federal significance.

Nature Reserve was established in December 1995 an active part in its institutions to take the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). The main purpose of its creation was the protection of places of mass flight and nesting of various species of waterfowl, protection of marine and coastal ecosystems of the south of the Bering Sea, and the whole complex ecosystem northern part of the Kamchatka Peninsula.

The reserve consists of two sections - the peninsula Parapolsky Gauvin and dale. The area of ​​the plot is about 151 thousand. Ha, while the second - more than 176 thousand. Ha. The plot "Govensky" located within Pylginskogo Range, characterized by steep slopes, rocky steep walls, sharp ridges and peaks. The area of ​​the land bordering the Olyutorskii Bay and the Gulf of Korf, who belong to the basin of the Bering Sea. As for the plot "Parapolsky", it stretches along the vast lowland, wetland and extensive dismembered river valleys.

On the territory inhabited by the Koryak reserve 35 species of mammals. Here you can meet a brown bear, hare, fox, snow sheep, wolverine, weasel, wolf, sable, ermine, and so on. Because birds are nesting white-tailed eagle, snipe-spoon-billed sandpiper, merlin, whooper swan, peregrine falcon and the Steller's sea eagle. In local waters There are more than 20 species of fish, among which the most common Siberian whitefish, pike, humpback whitefish, whitefish, salmon and Arctic cisco Penzhinsky.

Vegetation Koryak reserve more consistent berengiyskoy tundra. River valleys are occupied sedge pushitskoy tundra and forests, alpine tundra and subalpine zone elfin bushes.

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