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TOMSK, Oct 10 – RIA Tomsk. Researches of the
Russian and foreign scientists will help to keep the Vasyugan Swamp which is
one of the biggest in the world and influences climate of all planet, the
governor of the Tomsk region Sergey Zhvachkin considers.
On Monday the governor of the Tomsk region Sergey Zhvachkin and the
rector of Tomsk State University (TSU) Eduard Galazhinsky officially started
the Siberian network on studying of changes of the environment, within the
project scientists will explore the human impact on ecological processes
worldwide. In the view of scientists also get the Vasyugan Swamp in the
territory of which the authorities plan to create the reserve.
"I think, there is everything to create the reserve on Vasyugan
Swamp: both personnel potential, and scientific maintenance in our
universities, first of all – in TSU. How swamps influence world ecology, how
they protected from human activity, how they can regulate global processes –
scientists have to study it. And we, the government, will prepare the material
and legislative base", – Zhvachkin told.
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He noted that, according to the last researches, the Vasyugan Swamp
influences climate not only in Siberia, but also around the world.
"Researches shown that the role of Vasyugan Swamp is underestimated.
Earlier said that Amazon jungles – are the lungs of the planet. Here and
Vasyugan Swamp – is very important climatic mechanism too which needs to be
studied", – the governor noted.
Earlier it was reported that the Vasyugan Swamp – is one of the biggest
in the world, its most part is in the Tomsk region. The object has
all-planetary value – reduces concentration of carbonic and other greenhouse
gases in the atmosphere. In 2002 in the Tomsk territory of the swamp the
wildlife area is created, in the future it has to enter the federal reserve
which is supposed to be organized in the territory of the Tomsk and Novosibirsk
regions.