The Golden Mountains of Altai is the name under which in 1998 UNESCO listed three sites of the Altai Mountains in Russia as a World Heritage Site :
- Altai Nature Reserve and buffer zone of Lake Teletskoye (965.753 ha);
- Katunsky reserve and buffer zone of Belukha Mountain (392,800 ha);
- Ukok Plateau (252.904 ha) [1] .
| UNESCO World Heritage Site | |
| Golden Mountains of Altai [* 1] | |
|---|---|
| Golden Mountains of Altai [* 2] | |
 Kucherlinskoe lake | |
| A country | the Russian Federation |
| Type of | Natural |
| Criteria | x |
| Link | 768 |
| Region [* 3] | Asia and Oceania |
| Inclusion | 1998 (22 session) |
The total area of the protected area is 16 178 km².
The choice of these territories is due to the fact that they, in their totality, most fully in Siberia represent the alternation of zones of alpine vegetation: steppe , forest-steppe , mixed forests , subalpine and alpine zones. In addition, the importance of these areas for preserving populations of rare animals such as snow leopard , Siberian mountain goat, and Altai argali was taken into account.
Within the protection zone are some places where Pazyryk burial grounds are located .
The International Union for Conservation of Nature expresses concern that, despite the inclusion of these territories on the World Heritage List, which should guarantee them a special protected status, poaching continues to flourish here (see Mi-171 Disaster in Altai on January 9, 2009 ). The environmentalists are also concerned about the project for the construction of a gas pipeline and expressway from Kosh-Agach via Ukok to China [2] .
Notes
- ↑ Golden Mountains of Altai - unesco.org
- ↑ Ore, 2002 , p. 52-64.
Literature
- Rudoi A. N. The reverse side of the moon? // Altai Herald. - 2002. - No. 2 . - S. 52-64 . Archived July 20, 2011.