Sources of the River Luga (Russia (European))

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Sources of the River Luga

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Site description (2001 baseline):

Site location and context

A huge marsh with different type of swamps, partly destroyed by peat-mining industry.

Habitat and land use

Peat-mining was stopping from the beggining of 1990s and now the mined areas are starting to re-generate as mires.

Acknowledgements

The map polygon is provided courtesy of the Spatial Database on Important Bird Areas of Russia 2014 (© Russian Bird Conservation Union, © Transparent World).

Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Sources of the River Luga (Russia (European)). Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/sources-of-the-river-luga-iba-russia-(european) on 22/11/2024.