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Russian Zapovedniks and National Parks

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Zapovednik "Verkhne-Tazovsky"

Address: 626740 Yamalo-Nenetsky ÀÎ, pos. Krasnoselkup, Stroiteley st., 18.

Zapovednik Verkhne-Tazovsky, in Yamalo-Nenetsky Autonomous Okrug was established in 1986. Its area is 631,3 thousand ha. It is located on Verkhnetazovskaya Upland, in the watershed of river Taz tributaries — Pokolka and Ratta. The highest elevations are 160-170 m above the sea level.

In the plant cover north-taiga forests and bogs are presented: pine cowberry-lichen forests, dark coniferous forests of Siberian pine, spruce and fir, valley mixed forests, paludal sphagnum pine forests and oligotrophic moors with a thick cover of reindeer moss are developed, which serve important habitats of game birds and reindeer.

The flora includes plants rare for Siberia: Turk's cap lily, Ural peony, broad-leaved grape fern, etc.

The Zapovednik is home to the following mammals: moose, brown bear, wolverine, sable, least weasel, ermine; there also occur the lynx, Siberian weasel; dwelling in water bodies are the muskrat, and otter. Tetraonidae are common, including the capercaillie, black grouse, hazel grouse, willow grouse.

There are a number of rare and endangered birds as the Siberian crane, white-tailed eagle, osprey, golden eagle Aquila chrysaetos, Bewick's swan, red-breasted goose (stopping over on the flyway).

Rivers provide spawning grounds to taimen, inconnu, muksun, chir.

The Zapovednik area is a promising ground for the acclimatization of the beaver (Kondo-Sosvinskaya population) and the forest form of wild reindeer (Rangifer tarandus).

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