Chyornye Zemli Nature Reserve
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Chyornye Zemli Nature Reserve
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Chornye Zemli Nature Reserve (also) is a Russian 'zapovednik'. The name in Russian means "Black Lands". The main part of the reserve is located in the Caspian Depression, northwest of the Caspian Sea. It was originally created in 1990 to protect the saiga antelope. In the meantime, the economy of Kalmykia collapsed and the numbers of saiga have crashed due to poaching for meat and horns and desertification caused by overgrazing by domestic animals. The reserve also has colonies of egrets, cormor
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Nature reserve in Kalmykia, Russia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chyornye_Zemli_Nature_Reserve
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2024-03-30T07:43:37Z
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