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Торговый путь купца Новинского / Merchant Novinsky’s Trade Route

Иллюстрированный буклет содержит описание нового туристического маршрута, который пройдет по территории российского национального парка «Себежский» и белорусского заказника «Освейский», связанных единой озерной системой. This illustrated booklet provides description of a new ecological route created in the Sebezhsky National Park of Russia and the Osveysky Nature Reserve of Belarus sharing a single lake system.

 


Description:

45-километровый маршрут, который предполагается проходить на каноэ, сочетает активный отдых на воде с погружением в богатейшую историю края, когда-то лежавшего на периферии торгового пути «из варяг в греки». Приводится разнообразная информация о природе Себежского поозерья, особо охраняемых природных территориях, археологических находках и пр.

 The 45 km long picturesque chain of lakes, rivers and channels is perfect for canoeing, and being combined with natural and historic trails, this route must attract interest among the young visitors of the park. The booklet contains information on both protected nature areas, on wetlands of the Sebezh Lake Country and on the rich history of the area that used to lie on the Trade Route from the Varangians to the Greeks connected Scandinavia and many Russian cities with Byzantium in the 9th–11th centuries.


Related Action(s):
Development of a programme for transboundary wetland conservation along the border of the Russian Federation with Belarus and Ukraine

Publication

State of World's Waterbirds 2010

This booklet summarises what is known about the status of waterbird populations in different parts of the world. It shows how numbers and population trends compare from region to region, and how they changed between the 1970s and the 2000s.

Video

Tierra del Fuego peatlands & climate change (video)

This video tells the story how Tierra del Fuego's peatlands in Argentina function, are degraded due to peat mining and how this all relates to global climate change. The video includes beautiful sceneries, local experts and much more. 

 

Scientific article

Eco-Virological Approach for Assessing the Role of Wild Birds in the Spread of Avian Influenza H5N1 along the Central Asian Flyway

 A unique pattern of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 outbreaks has emerged along the Central Asia Flyway, where infecti...

Presentation

Ecosystems and Community Based Climate Change Adaptation Training Kit

Wetlands International and its partners have taken the initiative to develop a Training Program on the different aspects of ‘ecosystem and community based climate change adaptation...