{"id":2504,"date":"2018-11-01T15:42:25","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T12:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baikalfoundation.ru\/en\/?p=2504"},"modified":"2021-04-20T14:15:10","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T11:15:10","slug":"lake-baikal-foundation-won-the-presidential-grant-again-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baikalfoundation.ru\/en\/lake-baikal-foundation-won-the-presidential-grant-again-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Lake Baikal Foundation won the Presidential grant again this year"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the second time Foundation for Environmental Applications and Research \u00abLake Baikal\u00bb has become the winner of the Presidential Grants Foundation contest in category \u00abEnvironment and animals protection\u00bb. In 2018 it happened with the project \u00abThe Baikal Seal Year\u00bb<\/a>. The amount of grant is 4\u00a0658\u00a0460 rubles.<\/p>\n

The project is aimed at preservation of the Baikal seal and at sustaining the welfare of its population. A number of scientific and social events will take place to meet the project goal.<\/p>\n

The current state of the population is understudied \u2013 we lack data about population dynamics, its age structure, season migration and impact factors. There was no evaluation of population\u2019s welfare since anthropogenic impact on the seal\u2019s habitat has increased. At the same time the news about poaching and abuse of animal with such high level of emotional intellect requires urgent measures in scientific and educational fields.<\/p>\n

The program \u00abThe Baikal Seal Year\u00bb represents a series of measures which allow to make real the following things in only a year:<\/p>\n

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  1. to comprehend intrapopulation processes and to work out approaches to preserve the species in under conditions of increased anthropogenic influence on its habitat;<\/li>\n
  2. to explain the importance of careful attitude towards the Baikal seal to people, with focus on children \u2013 present and future preservers of lake Baikal;<\/li>\n
  3. to present accumulated data in special media-project in regional and national media for wide audience: to break the information about the threats to the seal and what human does to help or to aggravate the situation.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The scientific part of the program includes satellite tagging of Baikal seals which will be conducted for the first time on lake Baikal with the use of humane, non-invasive methods. It will allow to obtain accurate data about migration, age structure, dynamics of the population; number of seals injured by fishing nets and other aspects. The data will become the base for working out concrete measures to minimize the conflict between human and the Baikal seal.<\/p>\n

    The social block includes environmental educational activities: interactive lesson for 3-4 grade schoolchildren in Irkutsk region and in the Republic of Buryatia (measurable exposure of audience \u2013 5000 children).<\/p>\n

    In result, together with socially oriented part of the project, the Foundation will cooperate with marine mammals\u2019 specialists and work out long term projects on protection of the seals. \u00abThe Baikal Seal Year\u00bb is a good \u00abCurrent Threats to the Baikal Seal\u00bb start for joint work of the Foundation, experts in the Baikal natural area, the brightest Russian and overseas specialists on the seal, educational organizations in the framework of shaping a united approach to preserve the Baikal seal\u2019s population and education based on up-to-date data about its state.<\/p>\n

    Lake Baikal Foundation expresses gratitude to Presidential Grants Foundation for vote of confidence and interest in our project!<\/p>\n

    Photo: Alexey Svatov<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The project \u00abThe Baikal Seal Year\u00bb became the winner of the Presidential grants competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7334,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baikalfoundation.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2504\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baikalfoundation.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baikalfoundation.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baikalfoundation.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baikalfoundation.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=2504"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/baikalfoundation.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2504\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7451,"href":"https:\/\/baikalfoundation.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2504\/revisions\/7451\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baikalfoundation.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7334\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baikalfoundation.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=2504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baikalfoundation.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=2504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baikalfoundation.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=2504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}