Important Plant Areas in Belarus

The IPAs identified in Belarus. For an
interactive map search the IPA database (the
right hand column). ©Plantlife International

Text by Oleg Maslovsky

Belarus covers 207,000 km² in eastern Europe and has two biogeographic zones, the Continental and Boreal. Belarus is bordered by Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Latvia and Lithuania, and shares several cross-border protected areas with its neighbours, including the famous Belovezhskaya Pushcha. Belarus’ natural and semi-natural vegetation is made up mainly of forest (taiga, coniferous and mixed), wetlands (bogs, mires and lakes), and grassland.

IPA summary statistics

Total number of IPA: 10
Area of IPA (ha): 698,330
No/Area of IPA in Protected Areas (all or part) 8 IPA/588,330 (ha)

IPA national team

National coordinating organisation: The World Conservation Union Programme Office for Russia and CIS (IUCN-CIS, Moscow) coordinate the overall project in the CIS region.

Coordinator for CIS: Galina Pronkina

National coordinating organisation: Institute of Experimental Botany (IEB), National Academy of Sciences, Minsk

National coordinator: Oleg Maslovsky