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After the collapse of the Soviet Union, animals began to die out, of course but not from grief, like many old people who have lived all their life in the shovel society. It was just a consequence of those negative changes, which are especially famous for the nineties of the past centuries.
All these conclusions, Russian scientists recently set out on the pages Journal of Conservation Biology, emphasizing that the extinction of some large animal populations began precisely in 1991, when independent republics (the former USSR) confusion began and outright chaos in everything.
This led to a reduction, or even complete curtailment of work on environmental protection and the growth of terrible poaching. By this reason, writes, for example, Eugene Bragin, has declined sharply abundance of brown bear, wild boar, elk and some other large animals, and in almost all regions of the former Soviet Union.
All this allowed scientists to make an unambiguous conclusion that on the decline in population was affected precisely by the collapse of the USSR, and not by individual problems in nature itself. Now there is a recovery of almost of all populations once almost destroyed by poachers and lack of attention on the part of the leadership of the CIS countries nature. Unlucky unless the Eurasian lynx, but this problem attention is currently being paid.
In the journal, scientists write that socio-economic changes in The country directly affects the animal habitat. Therefore, in such periods, the researchers emphasize, it is necessary assist such a country or countries with international community. This, of course, will give a positive result in the conservation of the natural wealth of our planet.
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