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The fauna existing in Karelia was formed in the post-glacial period, that is, during the last 10 - 15 thousand years. 63 species of small, medium and large mammals live in Karelia. Of these, 4 species are introduced here or in adjacent territories, and then penetrated into the republic.
The fauna existing in Karelia - relatively young - was formed in the post-glacial period, that is, during the last 10 - 15 thousand years. 63 types of small, medium and large mammals lives in Karelia. Of these, 4 species are introduced here or in adjacent territories, and then penetrated into the republic. These are North American - muskrat, American mink, Canadian beaver and Far Eastern raccoon dog. The wild boar, which appeared as a result of natural settlement in Karelia in the late 60s - early 70s, and roe deer cannot be called native either. appearing from time to time in southern regions republics
Inhabitants of reservoirs
Currently, 57 species of fish live in the reservoirs of Karelia, 28 are rare and endangered species.
About 100 species and forms of mollusks and 10 species of higher crustaceans also live in the water element. There are 4 protected species.
The ringed seal living in Lake Ladoga (Pusa hispida ladogensis) is an endemic freshwater subspecies of the ringed seal, a relic of the Ice Age, listed in the Red Books of Russia, Karelia and in the World Conservation Union Red List as a vulnerable subspecies with narrow area. In connection with the excessive hunting pressure in the 20s - 30s of the current century, when more than 1500 animals were shot in some seasons, and with the beginning of the use of nylon nets in the 50s, when the number of only registered cases of death of seals in them reached 700 heads per year, the size of the population Ladoga seal has significantly decreased.
According to 1994 data, their number is in the range of 3-7 thousand animals. In Lake Ladoga, there is a ringed seal - a seal, a relic of the ice age. According to 1994 data, the number of Ladoga ringed seals is in the range of 3-7 thousand animals. The conditions of Lake Ladoga (a small closed ecosystem) predetermined the small number of seals. Due to the fact that in the 20s - 30s of the current century, hunters shot more than 1500 animals, and with the beginning of the use of nylon nets in the 50s, in which only according to registered data 700 heads per year died, the population size of the Ladoga seal has significantly decreased. Therefore, the Ladoga ringed seal is especially protected, it is listed in the Red Books of Russia, Karelia and in the World Conservation Union Red List as a vulnerable subspecies with a narrow range.
forest dwellers
Lynx is common throughout Karelia, but in the north it is very rare and far from annual. With all its appearance, the lynx is very similar to a domestic cat, only much larger than it.
The largest of the predatory animals of Karelia - Brown bear. The weight of old males reaches 250 - 300 kg. Like the badger and the wolverine, the bear is a plantigrade animal, that is, it relies on the entire foot when walking, and not just on the fingers, like other predators.
The beaver is the largest rodent in Karelia. On the territory of Karelia, European and Canadian beavers are distinguished. The beaver is perfectly adapted to life in the water. In Karelia, the main type of beaver dwelling is a hut.
Birds
291 species of birds are registered on the territory of the republic. More than 40% of nesting species live on the borders of ranges.
36 species of birds nesting in this territory are included in the Red Data Book of Karelia. Tundra swan, white-tailed eagle, golden eagle, steppe harrier, peregrine falcon, gray shrike are listed in the Red Book of Russia.
The largest diving duck in Karelia is the common eider. Males reach a weight of 3 kg. The eider has a very valuable, warm and delicate down.
Through the Olonets region and Vodlozersky national park pass the corridors of seasonal bird migration. Olonets fields every year become a gathering place for 1.5 million geese. Parking lots are formed mainly from white-fronted geese and bean goose. AT last years the number of barnacle goose is growing. All other European geese, with the exception of the black goose, are also found at camp sites, but much less frequently. The Black Goose crosses the territory of Karelia in one transit flight.
Amphibians and reptiles
There are 3 species of lizards and 2 species of snakes in Karelia.
Flora of Karelia
The Republic of Karelia is located within the northern and middle subzones taiga zone. Forests make up more than 50% of the total area of the republic, swamps occupy more than 20%, meadows about 1%.
In the vegetation cover of Karelia, 1379 species of vascular plants are represented: 18 of them are vascular plants listed in the Red Book of Russia.
There are many different types pines, but only Scotch pine grows in Karelia. Pine grows in the conditions of Karelia for 300 - 350 years, although there are also older trees. They reach a height of 20 - 25 meters, and sometimes 35 meters.
AT pine forests the air is very clean, as the needles release phytoncides that kill microbes. Therefore, sanatoriums and recreation centers are built in pine forests.
Pine gives valuable (very durable!) wood, which is used in construction and shipbuilding. Pine is also valued in the furniture industry.
Rosin and turpentine are obtained from resin (pine sap). Rosin is used to make soap, to make the highest grades of paper, and to rub the bows of musical instruments.
Pine grows in the Marcial Waters - a long-liver (about 400 years old). This pine is included in the list of rare trees - monuments that are on a special list. She has been issued a security clearance. There is a version according to which one of Peter I's close associates or relatives planted the pine tree. But such an age (400 years old suggests that the pine tree grew in the Marcial waters long before Peter's arrival).
Norway spruce and Siberian spruce grow in Karelia.
In the conditions of Karelia, spruce lives 200 - 300 years, individual trees live up to 500 years, reaching a height of 35 meters and up to a meter in diameter. Spruce wood is light, almost white, light, soft. Used for the best grades of paper. Spruce is called the musical tree, and this is no coincidence. Smooth, without branches, the trunks are used for the manufacture of musical instruments.
In the Karelian forests, several specimens of serpentine spruce (natural monuments) were found, which are of great interest for growing in parks. Unbranched long thin lateral shoots depart from the trunk of a serpentine spruce.
Larch belongs to coniferous trees, but unlike pine and spruce, it sheds all needles annually, like deciduous trees. Larch is durable - lives 400 - 500 years, reaches a height of about 40 meters. Grows fast. Larch is a valuable tree species. Larch wood is very strong and hard. Used in shipbuilding, landscaping.
Juniper is an evergreen coniferous shrub. It grows mainly in dry pine and spruce forests, along river banks, in swamps covered with moss. Juniper berries contain many valuable substances and have long been used in folk medicine.
In Karelia, two related species of "birch" are common: drooping birch and downy birch.
The birch is called the pioneer tree. She is the first to occupy any free piece of land. This is due to the fact that its tiny fruits are easily carried by the wind. And secondly, birch is an unpretentious tree species, although it does not tolerate shading. Birch is relatively short-lived, living up to 80 - 100 years and rarely longer. In the forest reaches a height of 25 meters. Birch wood is almost white, sometimes with a yellowish or reddish tinge.
The pearl of the Karelian forests is the Karelian birch. This is a special form of birch. Its trunk has a lot of thickenings. Under the bark, the wood of the Karelian birch is not smooth, like that of a regular birch, but consists of a number of folds and depressions, tubercles and depressions. Karelian birch has an unusual wood, on a polished saw cut, dark brown or brown stripes, strokes, curls are clearly visible, creating unique patterns. A lot of products are made from Karelian birch wood. various items- boxes, chess, brooches and other decorations. Furniture made from it belongs to the objects of artistic value.
All trunks of Karelian birch are registered, there are only about seven thousand of them in the territory of Karelia. Cutting down is carried out only with the special permission of the government of the republic. Places of natural growth and artificial plantings (for example, near the village of Tsarevichi) have been declared sanctuaries. Karelian birch is listed in the "Red Book of Karelia".
In the village of Tsarevichi, a linden (a monument of nature) grows, the trunk diameter of which is so large, but 42 small lindens grow on the roots, forming a whole tent.
About 170 species of medicinal plants grow in Karelia.
The large flowers of the Slipper of the present (Venus slipper) are distinguished by their amazing beauty. No wonder the name of this plant is associated with the name of the beautiful goddess of the morning dawn - Venus. In nature, the lady's slipper blooms for the first time in the fifteenth - seventeenth year. Now the lady's slipper is protected throughout Russia and is listed in the Red Book of Karelia and the Red Book of Russia. Lady's slipper belongs to orchid plants. They grow mainly in southern countries, are distinguished by a great variety, a bizarre shape of flowers. In addition to the slipper, our northern orchids also include a double-leaved skirt and spotted orchids.
The species composition of mosses in Karelia has not been sufficiently studied and there is no data on the approximate number of species growing on its territory. From representatives of different greatest variety, leafy mosses, 430 species were found in Karelia, 86 of which are listed in the Red Book.
In Karelia, 965 species and 46 intraspecific taxa of lichens and lichenized fungi have been identified. Currently, the final list of rare lichens of Eastern Fennoscandia found in Karelia includes 91 species.
Fungi in Karelia are currently identified 272 species and forms, their relationship with tree species. Of the total, 59% of species are edible, 12% are inedible, and 8% are poisonous; the properties of 21% of the total number of species have not been studied.
In Karelia, about 100 species of edible mushrooms are known: porcini, boletus, boletus, butterdish, volnushka, real breast, chanterelle, camelina, and serushka. Hat mushrooms are not only interesting as a source of food, but have long been known as natural healers. In Karelia, 52 species of fungi with medicinal properties, including 16 on the islands White Sea. Many edible mushrooms delay or inhibit the development of bacteria.
Russian Civilization
The Karelian region is famous not only for the unique beauty of nature, but also for the habitat of rare species of animals in its expanses, many of which are on the verge of extinction. A complex of environmental measures with the inclusion of rare species in the Red Book of Russia helps to save them.
large mammals
To the most large species that are under protection include:- reindeer;
- wolverine;
- European deer.
- acquired thick wool, which warms in the cold season;
- The deer feeds on any vegetation that it can get. The basis of the diet is reindeer moss, which, thanks to a sharp sense of smell, the animal manages to find even under a layer of snow;
- wide hooves adapted for raking snow.
- shortened body;
- powerful wide paws;
- long coarse hair.
The animal has a dark brown color with two longitudinal stripes on the back. The animal prefers isolation and solitary long nomadic trips in search of food. However, there are also groups near large carrion. Now wolverines are on the verge of extinction, in Karelia there are only about 250 individuals. Medium and small animals from the Red Book
- The common hedgehog is rare and most often found in southern parts Karelia. It has a small body covered with needles, ready to curl up into a ball at any danger, a narrow muzzle, small beady eyes. It is predominantly nocturnal and feeds on insects. For the winter, it hibernates, having previously arranged a nest in a secluded place. It can be a hole or a hollow under a tree, where the hedgehog carries dry leaves, and the entrance is rammed with grass.
- Weasel is a small animal, distinguished by briskness. Its length is only 17-18 cm. It has an elongated body weighing 80-100 g, a short neck and paws, a narrow small head and a fluffy tail. The weasel is covered with soft fur, which in summer has a brown color with a light breast, and in winter it is white. Often this bold animal attacks prey larger than it. The basis of the diet is mice, lizards, eggs from nests, chicks, frogs, rats, pigeons.
- The flying squirrel is a small animal from the squirrel family. This animal is smaller than a squirrel (up to 20 cm in length), has ears rounded without brushes, large dark eyes. Distinctive feature- a kind of parachute in the form of leather membranes between the paws. They stretch when jumping over, allowing you to increase the flight range.
By the river
On the territory of Karelia there are many lakes and rivers, on the banks of which one can meet such rare inhabitants as otters. These are relatives of wolverines and weasels weighing up to 10 kg. Unlike them, the otter is adapted to aquatic life. It has an elongated body with a tail and webbed paws, which contributes to fast travel in water. In food, a fish menu is preferable, as well as shellfish, crayfish, and frogs. Can hunt ducks and chicks. In the daytime, it often rests in a hole, and in warm weather comes ashore to bask in the sun. In the lakes you can meet the Ladoga seal. This is a representative of mustelids with dense fur of predominantly brown shades. Brings only one puppy. He is fluffy after birth white fur, therefore, not only predators, but also people hunt for a helpless cub. In Karelia, seals are protected; hunting for these animals has been prohibited here since 1984.
Birds
51 species of birds are also included in the Red Book of Karelia, among them:- The black swan is smaller than the white one and has a dark plumage with a greenish sheen. There are individuals weighing up to 3 kg. The black swan is a forest dweller that needs a combination of wood and water.
- The white-tailed eagle is a large bird with a wingspan of up to 2 m. It has a brown color with a white tail. Lives near water bodies. White-tailed eagles build nests that they use for several years in a row.
- The gray crane is a large representative of birds that weighs 6-7 kg. It has a bluish-gray plumage, it is distinguished by long legs. Cranes are monogamous, nesting in thickets near rivers.
Human greed and selfishness, together with the indifferent attitude of most people to nature, lead to sad consequences. Many species of valuable plants, animals, birds and insects important for maintaining the biological balance are moving into the category of "rare", others are threatened with complete extinction.
This article will focus on the Red Book of Karelia. It is a list of just such - rare and endangered birds, animals, plants and fungi.
Reference
Zero - the saddest - species that have probably already disappeared.
The first - the most "red" - real threat complete disappearance.
The second - alarming - the number of the species is rapidly declining.
The third - dull - began to be rarely seen in the usual places.
The fourth - mysterious - little studied species.
Fifth - encouraging - recovering.
Animals
On the pages of a sad book, about 23 species of animals had to flee.
The hedgehog is not a typo - the most common hedgehog now belongs to the third category. From the northern regions disappeared altogether, in the central - single individuals, a few more hedgehogs can be found in the southern regions and closer to Lake Janisjärvi.
The field mouse, like the common hedgehog, is close to extinction in Karelia.
The hare-hare - such a well-known, originally from children's fairy tales, hare-hare is very vulnerable in practice. Most often, traces report its presence. These are found only in the southern regions.
Wolverine - wolverine in Latin means "glutton". This one is pretty large predator- the most valuable orderly of the forest, could not protect himself and ended up in the Red Book.
European mink - this valuable furry animal with a flexible elongated body, unfortunately, fell into the sad first category.
The otter (piston) - a charming, temperamental, sociable predator with a cunning muzzle is also under real threat.
Weasel - in the fourth, little-studied category, brought invisible in winter against the backdrop of a snowy forest, a miniature, but very dexterous predator.
European roe deer - can be called happy addition who will be lucky enough to see this wild beauty!
Reindeer - elk-like rare view- with horns in both males and females, which is a rarity in the animal world.
Ladoga seal (ringed seal) - about 3,000 individuals who love to relax in a bowed boat, are found only in two lakes in Karelia.
The forest lemming is a little-studied animal of the fourth category. Most likely, complete extinction does not threaten him yet. Zoologists suggest that the reason lies in the characteristic features of this species to a sharp increase in the population, followed by a gradual decrease in numbers.
Garden dormouse - a small rodent with big ears has a low global population in principle. In Karelia, it is in category 0.
The common flying squirrel (flying squirrel) - a little smaller than the short-eared squirrel - is a small rodent of the squirrel family.
The black rat is already in the zero category on the territory of the republic.
Brown earflaps - a very remarkable variety bat with non-standard long ears. Pond, mustachioed and water bats are three more species of bats.
The tiny shrew is a mammal of the shrew family that freely fits on the palm (8 cm). It is not yet clear whether everything is really so bad, or whether it is difficult to accurately count the number of these small, nimble animals. But just in case!
Equal-toothed shrew - found in all areas, belongs to the fourth category.
The baby mouse is a very beautiful, golden-colored mouse with a body length of 5-7.5 cm (excluding the tail) - one of the smallest representatives in its family!
Yellow-throated mouse - nothing threatens this species within the planet, but in Karelia it is in category one on the pages of the Red Book. Since this animal is a peddler tick-borne encephalitis and hantavirus, which causes hemorrhagic fever, it is unlikely that they will increase the population of these mice.
And also a large, graceful lynx, a beautiful fox, a shy white hare, a luxurious ermine.
Birds
On the disturbing pages of the book (not only Karelian, but also world) flew:
Some species of swans and "handsome" black grouse.
The bluetail is a bright birdie, smaller than a sparrow.
A large, diurnal, bearded owl with a one and a half meter wingspan.
Known from old Russian fairy tales, a large kilogram curlew with a curved long beak.
The capercaillie is very careless during the mating season, which is why the hunters practically exterminated the bird.
Fish
About 28 species of fish also ended up on sad pages.
The specially protected by law, of course, include sturgeon, lake salmon and whitefish. Carps, catfish and loaches are also protected. From the mass catch of sterlet, nelma, tench, sabrefish and loach, these fish also had to swim to the pages of the Red Book.
Plants
Plants cry for help from the pages of a sad book!
Openwork ferns - shield, asplenium, grapevine.
Siberian aster is a beautifully flowering ornamental culture.
Wild orchids - among them the rarest cypridin slipper.
Trees and shrubs - hazel, cotoneaster, Karelian birch.
Forest herbaceous plant alpine tsitserbita (alpina) and rezuha.
Sundew intermediate and fragile caulinia growing in water are swamp plants.
Some medicinal herbs are the well-known St. John's wort, Rhodiola rosea (golden root), Ranunculus anemone.
butterflies
The pages of the Red Book reliably protect all those in need. But without the help of people, they will not cope! Of course, nature reserves and parks are good. Jaegers and fish supervision - not bad. But how you want ordinary people, all without exception, to love nature and take care of it!
Some vascular plants listed in the Red Book of Karelia:
Dremlik dark red
Distribution: In Karelia, it grows in Zaonezhie, Priladozhye. It is protected in the Kivach nature reserve and the Paanajärvi national park.
It is a perennial herbaceous plant with a thick horizontal rhizome. The leaves are alternate, oval or ovate, with a pointed apex; flowers dark purple, tepals 6-8 mm long. Collected in a sparse one-sided brush with a pubescent axis, they smell of vanilla. Blooms in July-August.
Spring lumbago
Distribution: In Karelia, it occurs only in the northern Priladozhek south of the village of Lahdenpokhya.
Plant up to 30 cm in height. Solitary bell-shaped flowers, white inside, and lilac or slightly purple outside. They bloom in May and bloom for 20-25 days.
calypso bulbous
In Karelia, it is distributed in the southern part of the republic and in the north of the Loukhsky region. Protected in the reserve "Kivach", national parks"Vodlozersky" and "Paanajärvi", landscape reserve "Zaozerye".
The plant blooms in June-July with large 2-3 cm long flowers with a pink perianth and a delicate pleasant smell. The plant itself is low, up to 20 cm, there is only one leaf on it - a dark green, harsh, wrinkled wintering ovoid on a long stem.
Mammals included in the Red Data Book of Karelia:
flying squirrel
The species is distributed throughout the republic, mainly in the Prionezhsky and Pudozhsky regions. Flying squirrels need old hollow trees for life, where they build nests, therefore, areas of mature forest with hollow trees are being preserved as conservation measures. Feeds in winter on alder and birch buds, cambial layer of alder and birch bark, spruce and pine shoot ovaries, pine needles and cone scales. In summer, leaves of the same trees, herbaceous plants, and berries join this set. Cubs are born in May, the second brood is rare, but if born, then in July.
forest reindeer
The modern southern boundary of distribution can be drawn along a conditional line connecting the village of Kuolisma, the southern shore of Segozero, Povenets and further along the shore of Lake Onega.
The number of deer, which in the 70-80s numbered 6,000 heads, is currently reduced to 4.5 thousand. You can meet them in Muezersky, Kalevalsky, Loukhsky and Kemsky districts.
In winter, deer rest on frozen lakes to make it easier to defend themselves from predator attacks, feed on reindeer moss, living in white moss pine forests, lichen swamps and swampy pine forests. In summer, they graze along the shores of lakes, on islands, on the outskirts of swamps or clearings. In summer, they feed not only on reindeer moss, but also on sedges, various herbaceous vegetation, leaves of trees and shrubs, and tree lichens. The rut is in late October-November, and in late April - early May, the female brings one calf.
The limiting factors are the disappearance of reindeer moss due to cutting down forests, poaching and chasing animals on snowmobiles.
Birds included in the Red Book of Karelia:
Broody
Within Russia, it is found only in Karelia, in the world it also lives in Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Estonia. The main places of concentration of the species are in the Onega Bay of the White Sea, the skerry northwestern regions of Lake Onega and Ladoga. AT recent times the number of this species is significantly reduced, and the distribution boundary is moving south. The clovers live both on the shores of fresh and salt water bodies, nest in colonies, prefer remote islands adjacent to great depths. Birds arrive in mid-May and raise chicks until the end of August, which hatch in the third decade of June.
small swan
During migration, it occurs throughout the territory of the Republic of Karelia, mainly distributed in the tundra and forest-tundra of Eurasia. In spring in southern Karelia (southeastern Ladoga region) up to 200 - 500 migratory individuals, to the north up to 120 birds, beyond autumn period up to 30-50 birds are recorded in the northern regions. The bulk flies from April 25 to May 10; autumn main flight in October. The small swan flies in large flocks of up to 100 individuals. For rest stops on the rivers and lakes. The limiting factors are the restlessness of flocks on vacation and poaching in places where the birds stop.
barnacle goose
In Karelia, it occurs only during seasonal migrations. They migrate in transit at high altitudes with stops in the Onega Bay of the White Sea in the last ten days of May - early June, in autumn in the second half of October. The limiting factors are the limited breeding range.
black kite
Distributed in the southern regions of Karelia (Onega-Ladoga watershed), where it nests every 3-5 years. In the northern regions, either single individuals or nomadic pairs are found. The distribution density of the black kite in the territories of the Onega-Ladoga watershed is 1 pair per 100 km2 (in some years 2-3 pairs per 100 km2), in the Pudozh region the density is 1.5-4.5 (on average 2.7) pairs per 100 km2 .
The black kite is called the orderly of the floodplain, so not only mouse-like rodents, frogs, but also young non-flying birds (molting, sick, weakened), dead fish, waste from slaughterhouses and carrion from the coasts serve as food. An inhabitant of floodplain landscapes with a developed network of lakes, oxbow lakes and lowland swamps.
Birds nest near rivers and lakes, most often in trees. conifers. Full clutch consists of 2-4 eggs, brood consists of 1-2 chicks.
Limiting factors are disturbance in nesting areas, human shooting.
Orlan - white-tailed
Currently, about 40 pairs of eagles live in the republic. The basis consists of 3 groups: Vodlozero (12-15 pairs), White Sea (9-10 pairs), Ladoga (9-10 pairs). During the nesting period, it settles on the coasts and islands of large water bodies rich in fish and wetland terrestrial vertebrates. The presence of an old large tree with a flattened top is important. Limiting factors: low level of fertility (puberty at 3-4 years of age, 1 chick in a brood), there are fewer and fewer old trees suitable for nesting, deterioration of the food supply.
The Republic of Karelia is located within the northern and middle subzones of the taiga zone. Forests make up more than 50% of the total area of the republic, swamps a little more than 20%, meadows about 1%.
There is a problem of species diversity conservation in Karelia flora. Every year, tens of thousands of hectares of forest are cut down, including the last, westernmost in Europe, areas of indigenous boreal ( boreal the woods these are the most northern from forests our planet, mostly evergreen) forests. Along with such forests, the typical taiga flora also disappears. Rare and scarce species suffer the most, falling into the category of endangered and most vulnerable. In the vegetation cover of Karelia, 1379 species of vascular plants are represented: 18 of them are listed in the Red Book of Russia: common grapevine, lacustrine and thinnest halfworts, brown honeydew, lead-green and loose sedges, real lady's slipper, bulbous calypso, leafless chin , Traunshteiner and Baltic digitiroots, Lezel's liparis, insect-bearing ophris, marsh cere, rock tarry, spring backache, cinnabar-red cotoneaster, Dortman's lobelia.
And three species from this list can already be classified as extinct: simple grapevine, Baltic palmate root, insectiferous ophris. a few more species fell into the category of endangered and especially vulnerable plants.
There are many such places in the Lakhdenpokh region, where thick layers of sand were formed by ancient glacial rivers. After climate warming, lifeless spaces were gradually covered with green forests. Unfortunately, over the past millennia, many plant and animal species have disappeared from this area.
But there is one amazing relic species- a kind of "living fossil" - which has remained in our forests since those distant times. It is found only in the deltas of the ancient glacial rivers. Now the sand deposits are hidden by dry, light lingonberry pine forests. A herbaceous plant lives there - spring backache.
Backache lives for a long time, blooms only in the fifth, and sometimes even in the eighth year of life. Its flowers look like a large bell up to five centimeters in size, they are white inside, pale purple outside. Interestingly, almost the entire plant is hairy - this is a kind of adaptation for the economical evaporation of moisture. After all, it grows on sandy soils in dry pine forests.
The petals are densely hairy on the outside. The flower-bearing stems are pubescent with silvery hairs, and the tripartite leaves are densely covered with bronze-golden hairs. Basal leaves form a rosette. The leaves are leathery, wintering, they come out from under the snow green.
Blooms at the end of May. First, the heavy bud leans towards the ground. Then the stalk gradually straightens, and the opened flower moves after the sun, like a sunflower.
Although the backache is included in the Red Books of both Karelia and Russia, but measures to protect this amazing plant still not accepted. But out of all of Karelia, it grows only here, in the Lahdenpokh region. Backache disappears as a result of deforestation and collection of flowering plants.
The well-known botanist Veli Ryasyanen described the areas of the forest where this rare species is found. Unfortunately, now these places have become even less. The plant is on the verge of extinction.
According to UNESCO, now the globe one plant species disappears every week. Such a loss is an irreplaceable loss for science and practice, since it is impossible to artificially create an extinct species. And so we appeal to all residents of Karelia, our guests, our tourists - only you and I can stop the disappearance of these and other plants. Now there is a great opportunity to photograph any plant, and thus it will remain with you for a long time. And most importantly, many more generations will be able to see it “live”.
The article uses information and photos from open sources.
