Caucasus - amazing in its beauty the region.Located at the junction of two climatic zones, the edge of amazing variety of landscapes, peoples and wildlife.
According to the number of animal species is second only to tropical countries.But the temperature is about 5 ° C lower than elsewhere, located at the same latitude.
Pets Caucasus - is not only a terrific jackals, foxes and hares.This set of rare species found in inaccessible places.In the Caucasus is still preserved Alpine chamois able to move through the mountains with a speed of 50 kilometers per hour.Here live proud Caucasian tours cautious leopard, bezoar goats fearless, able to move around the cliffs.Bears, wild boar, bison, Eurasian lynx, deer, roe deer - they are listed as endangered, but still feel at home in the Caucasus region.
order to preserve endemic animals, the unique biosphere, rare plants, preserved in the mountains and on the plains, in the Caucasus established reserves.They are the highest form of nature protection.They are on a strictly set aside areas of land protected by the state.The reserves held observation, study, but most importantly - provide protection to flora and fauna, guaranteed stability and security.
In 1998, the Association was established, which includes the following reserves of the Caucasus:
• At the junction of Adygeya, Krasnodar Territory and Karachay-Cherkessia is Caucasian Reserve.Full name of the territory - Caucasian State Nature Biosphere Reserve.It rises above the sea to 3.5 km.From the south it is bounded by steep, very steep slopes, and to the north of its territory - the flatter.Caucasian Reserve - the oldest protected area of the modern Caucasus.Today, he is on the list of objects of particular importance for UNESCO.
Earlier this territory is State Reserve, which bred bison.Then the status of expanded and became the legal successor of the Caucasian Reserve predecessor.
Today there live 19 families of mammals.In the area exceeding 280 hectares of the family coexist tight, Soneva, bear, marten, bovids, deer and a dozen rare species.Many animals are endemic and relict.
Interestingly, the Caucasian Reserve sheltered not only the representatives of the Caucasian fauna.There can also be found specimens of European, Mediterranean, Colchic fauna.Caucasian Reserve - one of the largest in Europe.
• Teberdinsky Reserve borders with the Caucasus.The vast majority of its territory is significantly higher than the sea (on 2000 m), and some places rising to 4000 meters.The climate is similar to the sea, and vertically divided into three mountain areas: forest, meadow, nival.The reserve is inhabited animals typical of Central Asia, Western Europe and the Mediterranean.
• North Ossetian Reserve is famous for temperate continental climate, an abundance of snow, glacial winds.It is home to 2000 different species of invertebrates for the same number of insects, 175 species of birds, 35 species of animals.
The Association reserves the Caucasus also includes the following:
• Kabardino-Balkaria;
• located in Ingushetia "Erzi";
• Voronezh;
• Kabardino-Balkaria;
• Reserve "black earth";
• Bogdinsko-Baskunchaksky;
• Abkhazian "Ritsensky relic National Park";
• Sochi Park (national).
This is not a full list of the Caucasian Reserve.A total of 27. Most of them - small in area (30 hectares).Most of them are located in the Trans-Caucasian republics, but all are important.
But as scientists believe, even this amount is not enough reserves to maintain normal conditions for endangered animals.It should be in the near future to create such Armenia, Azerbaijan, Dagestan.
overall role of reserves is one: they are designed to keep the natural features, climate, flora and fauna.
stability that parks and reserves provide the animals ensures their survival.
