Decree No. 653 of the Council of Ministers validating the Regulation on monitoring of wild fauna species and utilization of collected data. Country/Territory Belarus Document type Regulation Date 2013 Source FAO, FAOLEX Subject Wild species & ecosystems Keyword Wild fauna Monitoring Hunting/capture Endangered species Aquatic animals Data collection/reporting Access-to-information Protection of species Geographical area CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States), Eastern Europe, Europe, Europe and Central Asia Abstract This Decree establishes the modalities of performance of monitoring of wild fauna species as an integral part of the National Environmental Monitoring, and utilization of collected data. Monitoring of wild fauna species shall be intended the system of observations over wild fauna species, natural habitats thereof, assessment and forecast of changes due to impact of environmental and anthropogenic factors. Monitoring of wild fauna species shall be performed by the National Academy of Sciences in the following fields: (a) observation of wild fauna species subject to hunting; (b) observation over aquatic animals; (c) observation over rare and endangered wild fauna species; (d) observation over alien species; and (e) observation over species that are not subject to hunting. Full text Russian Website levonevski.net