MINSK, February 20 (BelTA) – Belarus and Russia intend to set up a cross-border biosphere reserve Osveya-Krasny Bor-Sebezhsky. The relevant draft agreement will be high on the agenda of a meeting of the Belarusian-Russian working group on cooperation in conservation and sustainable use of biological and landscape diversity. The meeting will be held in the National Landscape Reserve Krasny Bor, Vitebsk Oblast on 21-22 February, BelTA has learned from the press service of Russian Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment.
The parties will also discuss the ways to enhance bilateral collaboration in the field of conservation and sustainable use of natural resources.
The parties intend to sign a joint plan of action to boost cooperation, including in ecotourism, between specially protected natural areas of Belarus (Berezinsky Biosphere Reserve and national parks) and the Association of Reserves and National Parks of Russia's North-West for 2017-2020.
