Vostsibneftegaz Launches New Grant Programme to Support Environmental Projects

The East Siberian Oil and Gas Company, a subsidiary of Rosneft, has launched a grant programme to support environmental projects in 2023. Together with scientists, ecologists and representatives of local communities, the Company's specialists have drawn up a research programme of practical relevance for the enterprise's area of operation – the Evenki district of the Krasnoyarsk territory.

This year, with the support of oil workers, the Tunguska State Nature Reserve will continue its project to study the red deer – maral. In 2022, scientists confirmed the hypothesis that the cloven-hoofed mammal had migrated from the south to the north, where it had previously been thought impossible to live. The researchers will analyse the biological potential of the species in the newly colonised area. The project will result in proposals for optimising environmental management systems in response to the emergence of a new species.

The Krasnoyarsk Research Centre of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences is implementing a project entitled «Coniferous forests in Evenkia in a changing climate: dynamics of fire frequency and area, restoration of vegetation productivity.» Scientists will undertake activities to collect data on the long-term dynamics of larch and other vegetation fires in Evenkia, and to assess the rate of recovery of vegetation productivity in these areas. This information will be used to model the intensity of metabolic processes in ecosystems.

Scientists from the Siberian Federal University will assess the current state of the wolf population and regulate the number of the species in the territory of Evenkia. The wolf is one of the natural threats to wild reindeer and the reindeer herding areas of the local people. Scientists will study the wolf's impact on the deer population, produce habitat maps and study the predator's self-regulation mechanisms. Based on these studies, the University's staff will propose recommendations for regulating the wolf population.

Rosneft
Information Division
March 3, 2023