On October 1st to 8th Karelia will be the venue for a media camp within the project “Conservation Focus of the Russian Geographical Society”. It was organized by the Youth Club of the RGS Crimean Branch in collaboration with the Republic of Karelia Protected Area Directorate and the Kizhi Open Air Museum.
– What is remarkable about our project is that is embraces quite a number of conservation areas in Karelia, which we’re going to traverse during these eight days. The participants are volunteers, including photographers, videographers, designers from different regions: Moscow, St. Petersburg, Udmurtia, Novgorod Region, and the Crimea. Their primary mission is to create media content for the protected areas we visit, – shared Ekaterina Petlyukova, Project Organizer, Vice-Leader of the Youth Club at the RGS Crimean Branch.
RGS media volunteers are going to visit natural, cultural and historical destinations in the republic: Kivach Nature Reserve, Girvas paleovolcano, Kizhi Island, Vodlozersky National Park, Shun’ga pit. They will attend theoretical and hands-on classes and go on tours. One of the plans is to prepare a guidebook.
Karelian Research Centre RAS was the first station for the participants to start exploring the region. KarRC RAS was the organization that produced substantiation papers for a majority of the protected areas designated in Karelia in the past decades. This year, the Centre opened its new Museum of Applied Environmental Research, with its exhibitions demonstrating how research is done in natural sciences.
The manager of the project for creating the Museum Alexandra Smirnova guided a tour for the guests. The thematic module introduced in greater detail was the one on parasitology, in particular nematodes. Elizaveta Matveeva, Secretary for Science at the Institute of Biology KarRC RAS, President of the Russian Nematology Society told the visitors about these organisms. In conclusion of the meeting, Head of the KarRC RAS Department for International Cooperation Pavel Petrov gave a presentation of the Karelian Research Centre’s scientific and project activities.
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October 4, 2022
Media volunteers of the Russian Geographical Society to explore Karelia starting at the KarRC RAS Museum of Applied Environmental Research. October 1st was the launch day of the youth project “RGS Conservation Focus”, which has gathered participants from different parts of the country.
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