A new specially protected natural area (SPNA) has been created in the Mansky district of the Krasnoyarsk Territory. We are talking about the nature monument of regional significance "Badjey caves". The relevant regulation came into force on March 1. The area of the new protected area was 294.5 hectares. This was announced on its website by the Association of Nature Reserves and National Parks of the Altai-Sayan Ecoregion.
"The nature monument was created in order to preserve conglomerate caves typical of the Badjey speleological site of the Mansky trough. There is a complex developing natural and territorial complex of a system of karst formations. The landscape performs the most important water-regulating functions of the Yenisei River basin, preserves potential sources of drinking karst water," the message says.
The caves included in the protected areas - Dark, Icy, White and Bear caves - are the reference objects for the Bajey speleological site.
According to experts, they have great sightseeing potential and are distinguished by their biodiversity. In general, the fauna is represented by 138 species, the flora by 318.
"The caves are home to a number of red-book bats for the region, such as long-tailed, pond and Ikonnikova moths, as well as a large pipefish. Of the vegetation on the territory, lobaria pneumonica is recorded – a unique lichen, an indicator of clean air in the environment. There are also bulbous calypso listed in the Red Books of the Russian Federation and the region, helmet-bearing yartyshnik, neottiante klobuchkovaya and Venus's slipper, real, large-flowered," the association noted.
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