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1. www.borealforest.org , a project of the Faculty of Forestry and the Forest Environment, Lakehead University, Canada.

2. Woods Hole Research Center, http://whrc.org/russia/russias_importance/natural_system. htm

3. NationalGeographic.com

4. WWF and IUCN, Russia Case Study: Management Effectiveness Assessment of Protected Areas Using WWF’s RAPPAM Methodology, 2003.

5. www.panda.org/forests

6. Information provided by WWF Russia, June 2007.

7. The Guardian, Huge rise in Siberian forest fires puts planet at risk, scientists warn, 31 May 2005.

8. Telegraph, UK. Siberian forest fires due to climate change. 1 August 2007

9. Year 2000 data from CAIT, Climate Analysis Indicators Tool version 3.0 (Washington, DC: World Resources Institute, 2006), available at http://cait.wri.org.

10. Pearce, Fred, Climate warning as Siberia melts, New Scientist, 11 August 2005.

11. Monbiot, George, Environmenta