The Red Book was first introduced to the public in the middle of the last century. The initiative for its publication was made by the English zoologist Peter Scott. The pages of several volumes described in detail the representatives of the animal and plant world, who are under the threat of complete death.
After this event, one after another, special books of the former Soviet republics appeared. And in 1983, the Red Book of the Russian Federation was first published. In the eighties of the twentieth century, the so-called Red Lists of the Volga and Urals were compiled. Then it was decided to compile separate publications for each of the Russian regions.
Let's see what kind of book it is.
The Red Book of Tatarstan is a document that is published according to the legislation of this republic. It not only contains data on each protected object of wildlife, but also lists the reasons for their disappearance and measures that may contribute to their conservation. Its first publication was published in 1995, after ten years the list contained in it was updated and then reduced. As a result of all these changes, the Red Book of Tatarstan contained 595 species of plants, mushrooms and animals, of which 214 are representatives of the animal world.
All of them are divided into six categories, each of which characterizes the state of individual representatives of flora and fauna at the moment. Thus, category 0 indicates completely extinct species, the whereabouts of which have not been reported for fifty years prior to their inclusion in this list. Category 5 denotes those species that are successfully restored and in the near future will cease to need specially taken measures for their protection.
Publications of this kind, including the Red Book of Tatarstan, are not documents of last resort at all, this is what they differ from other directories in, because they require changes on an ongoing basis. It is on the basis of updated data on the state of the animal and plant world that one can judge the need for protective measures in relation to any species, as well as decide on the regulation of the number of individual representatives of the fauna
Plants and animals of Tatarstan
The work of compiling such books should be continuous, and its ultimate goal is to ensure that the number of species listed on the pages of the publication decreases many times over every year. For example, some animals of the Red Book of Tatarstan have already "left" from its pages back into the woods, among them was a groundhog, or, in other words, a European baibak, gray partridge and brown bear.
It only says that the work of environmentalists was effective and helped these beautiful creatures survive. Unfortunately, in the lists of species that have disappeared from the territory of the republic, there are such animals of Tatarstan as sable, wolverine, reindeer. And also many others that people have not managed to save.
But, in addition to representatives of mammals, fish, birds and amphibians, there are other sections that include the Red Book of Tatarstan.
Plants: common and medicinal herbs, flowers and trees - also expect organized help and human support. By the way, the list of herbs with healing properties was released in a separate volume, and it included the names well-known to many: common blueberry, marsh cranberry, bearberry (bear's ear) and others.
Endangered species
As for animals, the following species are currently listed in the Red Book:
- insectivorous (toothless tiny, desman, eared hedgehog);
- bats (two-tone leather, northern leather, forest bat, dwarf bat, giant evening);
- rodents (red field vole, big jerboa, steppe pestle, gray hamster, Eversman's hamster);
- predatory (otter, European mink, ermine, stone marten).
Feathered
Of the birds, the book contains many subspecies:
- loons;
- grebe-like;
- copepods;
- ciconiiformes;
- flamingos;
- Anseriformes;
- falconous;
- crane-like;
- pigeon-shaped;
- owls;
- goat-like;
- crayfish;
- hoop-like;
- woodpeckers;
- passerines.
Reptiles
Conservationists have not forgotten about the reptiles represented by the common viper, steppe viper, copperfish, brittle spindle and wading turtle, as well as amphibians, the list was supplemented with gray toad, red-bellied toad and crested triton.
Unfortunately, the invertebrate representatives of the animal world also made up a huge list, among which there are ciliary worms, mollusks, crustaceans, spiders, mayflies, dragonflies, orthopterans, half-winged, coleoptera, reticuliformes, lepidopterans, hymenoptera and dipterans.
The deteriorating environmental situation in the republic, and indeed in the world as a whole, has led to the fact that many species of mushrooms are also listed in the Red Book.
