Environmental monitoring of Lake Baikal

The change in the total land area by category in 2013

Land category
Changing the area, %
0.08 0.06 0.04 0.02 0 0.02 0.04 0.06 0.08
Reduction Increase


Overall, in 2013 some insignificant redistribution of land between the categories took place within the Baikal Natural Territory. These changes affected all land categories: settlement lands (an increase by 2.5%), reserve lands (a reduction by 0.4%), agricultural lands (a reduction by 0.1%), industrial lands (an increase by 0.03%), specially protected lands (an increase by 0.01%), water reserve lands (a decrease by 0.003%), and forest reserve lands (a decrease by 0.001%).
The changes were mainly due to the inclusion of reserve lands in the agricultural land category.
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