On April 10, the award ceremony of the II national prize "Rassvet" in the field of environmental education and nature photography took place. The "Lake Baikal" Foundation and the IEE RAS became the laureate in the nomination "Best project for a protected area".
The award was given to the project "Study of the Baikal seal on the Ushkany Islands (territory of the Federal State Budgetary Institution "Zapovednoye Podlemorye")". The result of the project, among other things, was receiving more than 5,000 photographs and 48 videos of seals hauling out on the islands for visual censuses. Photographs play a key role in visual censuses of endemics, as they help scientists and researchers record data on populations and their habitat, and comparing photographs over time allows tracking changes in populations and their habitat.
The work on studying Baikal seals is carried out in cooperation with the Federal State Budgetary Institution "Zapovednoye Podlemorye". In 2024, the project was implemented with the support of private donors of the Lake Baikal Foundation and a charitable donation from the World Around You Foundation to the Siberian Wellness company.
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