Reserve of Russia: School guide. Afonkin S.Yu., Dunaeva Yu.A.

more than 33 million hectares are allocated to the reserves in our country. It seems to be a lot. However, the reserved lands of Russia are only about one and a half percent of its territory. These special "islands" of untouched nature allow you to maintain the living world of our planet. The history of the creation of security land goes deeper. The first to understand - nature should be protected from exorbitant human desires were, oddly enough, the hunters themselves. They realized: if you take prey without measure, wealth will soon end. Therefore, the Chukchi did not beat walruses in certain territories. Kamchadals only occasionally hunted Kalans for the sake of their skins, and even asked for forgiveness from these pretty animals for this forced measure. The inhabitants of the Tuvan Territory themselves agreed not to hunt beavers at the origins of the Yenisei.