Regulation on resource reserve “Kenkeme”. Country/Territory Russian Federation Territorial subdivision Sakha (Yakutia) Document type Regulation Date 1999 Source FAO, FAOLEX Subject Environment gen., Wild species & ecosystems Keyword Protected area Ecosystem preservation Indigenous peoples Traditional rights/customary rights Surface water Groundwater Monitoring Protection of habitats Research Noise pollution Tourism Management/conservation Wild fauna Biodiversity Geographical area Arctic, Asia and the Pacific, Black Sea, Caspian Sea, CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States), Eastern Europe, Europe, Europe and Central Asia, North Pacific, North-West Pacific Abstract Resource reserve “Kenkeme” shall be classified as national nature reserve – protected area. Resource reserve “Kenkeme” shall perform the following functions: (a) creation of conditions for protection, replacement and reproduction of biodiversity; (b) scientific research and ecological monitoring; and (c) propaganda of nature protection through organization of environmental tourism. The following activities shall be prohibited: (a) water resources management and any activity modifying hydrological regime of surface water and groundwater; (b) construction and placement of industrial facilities, high-voltage lines and main pipelines; (c) exploration, mining, any types of soil cover and vegetable cover disturbance, plowing up, blasting operations, industrial timber extraction; (d) traffic and parking of motor vehicles outside public roads and waterways of common access, water logging, passage of livestock; (e) collection of various specimen, except for scientific research purposes; (f) hunting, fishing in excess of the established quotas, destruction and capture of wild animals and birds, destruction of burrows, nests and other hiding places and shelters, as well as all kinds of changing conditions of animal habitats; (g) introduction of plants and animals for acclimatization, measures to increase the number of certain wild fauna species above natural capacity of land; (h) application of pesticides, as well as to combat pests, plant diseases and weeds and for the purpose of regulation of number of animals; (i) pollution of the territory by domestic and non-domestic waste; (j) flight of aircraft lower than 500 m, overcoming the sound barrier by technical means, as well as other types of noise pollution impact exceeding established limits; (k) movement, passage and transit of extraneous persons without prior authorization by the regional state body in the sphere of environmental protection; and (l) any activity damaging the state of natural complexes or contrasting the objectives of resource reserve. By agreement with the regional environmental protection bodies can be authorized the following activities: (a) (a) scientific research; (b) performance of required fire-fighting, sanitary and epidemiological arrangements; (c) rehabilitation activity in areas damaged by natural disasters or by unauthorized human activities; (d) fee-paid artisanal fishing and licensed commercial fisheries; (e) in some case regulated environmental tourism; and (f) traditional nature management (horse breeding, reindeer breeding, haymaking, collection of wild growing berries and mushrooms). Full text Russian Website oopt.aari.ru