Location
Key Information
| 51 km2 | MARINE AREA |
| 419 km2 | TOTAL AREA i |
Boundary: Laboratory of Geoinformation Technologies - Ministry of the Natural Resources and the Environment (Unmodified)
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January 2023
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Purpose
Rationale for the creation of protected areas and its significance:
1. implementation of the protection of territories (water areas) in order to preserve biological diversity and maintain protected natural complexes and objects in their natural state;
2. organization and conduct of scientific research, including the maintenance of the Chronicle of Nature;
3. implementation of environmental monitoring;
4. environmental education;
5. assistance in the training of scientific personnel and specialists in the field of environmental protection.
In accordance with the Ramsar Convention, the reserve is classified as a wetland of international importance. This is due to the fact that the Belomoro-Baltic spring-autumn migration route of birds passes here and there is a traditional, used for centuries, bird stop on the way of their flight.
Species of Concern: multiple
Regulations Summary
Restrictions
On the territory (water area) of the Nizhne-Svirsky State Nature Reserve, any activity that is contrary to the tasks of the state nature reserve and the regime of special protection of its territory is prohibited, including:
1. exploration and development of minerals;
2. commercial, sports and amateur hunting and fishing, other types of use of the animal world, except for the cases provided for by the regulation;
3. the presence and passage of unauthorized persons and motor vehicles outside public roads and waterways, as well as the parking of this vehicle on a public road;
4. overflight of airplanes and helicopters below 2000 meters over land and water without the consent of the state reserve or controlling environmental authorities, as well as the flight of aircraft over the reserve at supersonic speed, overcoming the sound barrier;
5. other activities that violate the natural development of natural complexes and objects of the reserve, as well as not related to the fulfillment of the tasks assigned to the reserve.
Allowed
Stay on the territory of the state reserve of citizens who are not employees of the state reserve, or officials who are not employees of Rosprirodnadzor, is allowed only with the permission of Rosprirodnadzor or the directorate of the state reserve.