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Keoladeo National Park
It was once a duck hunting reserve for the Maharajas and is one of the main wintering grounds for a large number of water birds from Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, China and Siberia. About 364 bird species have been recorded in the park, including the rare Siberian crane.
Virunga National Park
Virunga National Park (790,000 hectares) has an extremely diverse range of habitats, from swamps and grasslands to the Rwenzori snowfields at over 5,000 metres above sea level, from lava plains to savannahs on the slopes of volcanoes. The park is home to mountain gorillas, around 20,000 hippos live in the river and Siberian birds spend the winter here.
Lake Baikal
Lake Baikal, located in southeastern Siberia, covers an area of 3.15 million hectares and is the oldest (25 million years) and deepest (1,700 meters) lake in the world. It contains 20% of the world's total unfrozen freshwater reserves. Known as the "Galapagos Islands of Russia", its long history and isolation have created one of the richest and most unusual freshwater faunas in the world, of extraordinary value to evolutionary science.
Golden Mountains of Altai
The Altai Mountains in southern Siberia are the main mountain range of the Western Siberian biogeographic region and the source of the region's largest rivers, the Ob and Irtysh. The region is divided into three separate areas: the buffer zone around the Altai Mountains and Lake Teletskoye; the buffer zone around the Katun Mountains and Mount Belukha; and the Ukok Quiet Zone on the Ukok Plateau. The total area is 1,611,457 hectares. The region represents the most complete sequence of high-altitude vegetation zones in central Siberia, including steppe, forest-steppe, mixed forest, subalpine vegetation, and alpine vegetation. The area is also an important habitat for endangered animal species such as the snow leopard.