ИСТИНА

Since 2009, monitoring and the search for new localities of rare species were continued, including natural complexes of particular conservation value, and current, projected or planned nature protection areas (NPA). Surveys were carried out in response to environmental programs of the Moscow region. For the generalization of information on the rare species locations, an electronic "Data bank on flora and fauna listed in the Red Book" has been developed and has been operating for several years now, where specialists record all information about the finds and condition of flora and fauna species. Monitoring studies have shown that for a number of plant species, data on their actual distribution were not always complete. In different physiographic provinces, the number of protected species is different: most rich in rare vascular plants are small areas within the field of the Moskva-Oka (Oka landscape of ancient alluvial plains) and the Mid Russia Province (Zaosetrinsky, Serebryano-Prudsky landscapes moraine fluvioglacial and erosion-denudation plains), with colorful herbage-feather grass steppes meadows. In the northernmost province of the Upper Volga wetlands and swamp forests and moraine-fluvioglacial and fluvioglacial flat, slowed-drained plains (Ermolinsky, Lower Dubninsky, Reshetnikovsky et al.) landscapes still inhabited by rare hypoarctic elements. Some plant species are considered extinct in the Moscow region, but their habitat is still protected in the several of NPA. For a number of species of plants and lichens get comprehensive information about their actual distribution in the region, for a large part of the species, especially lichens require a change in their conservation status in the new edition of the Moscow region Red Data Book, which is planned for 2018