This web-site was financed from the Regional Special Programme "Support and Development of Protected Areas of the Leningrad Region until 2010" and from the LIFE project "Integration of Protected Areas of the Leningrad Region into European Context".
	The Project's Partners:
	The Leningrad Region Government The Committee for Natural Resources and Environment Protection of the Leningrad Region is an executive power organ, which carries out within its executive discretion public management and implementation of powers of the Leningrad Region in the fields of environment protection, mineral resources management, forest and water management, administration of regional PAS, waste disposal, air quality control, protection and management of animal resources, safety of hydraulic structures and radiation and environmental safety control.
	The World Conservation Union (IUCN) The World Conservation Union, founded in 1948, brings together 82 states (including Russia, represented by the Ministry of Natural Resources), 111 government agencies, more than 800 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and some 10,000 scientists and experts from 181 countries in a unique worldwide partnership. The Union's mission is to influence, encourage and assist societies throughout the world to conserve the integrity and diversity of nature and to ensure that any use of natural resources is equitable and ecologically sustainable.
	The Baltic Fund for Nature (BFN) of the St. Petersburg Naturalists' Society The Baltic Fund for Nature (BFN) of the St. Petersburg Naturalists' Society develops and implements international scientific and applied projects, as well as educational and informational programmes concerning nature protection in the Baltic Sea regions of the Russian Federation and in the North-West of Russia in general. BFN is a member of the World Conservation Union (IUCN) and the Coastal Union (EUCC), and the partner organization of WWF Russia and the WWF Baltic Programme.
	The Forest Service of Finland - Metsahallitus Metsahallitus is responsible for management and monitoring of protected areas in Finland and for further development of their network. It has a broad experience of establishing sustainable regime of territorial nature protection in Finland. The Forest Service of Finland has long been collaborating with its Russian partners in implementation of various projects in border areas.