Environmental monitoring of Lake Baikal

The change in the total land area by category in 2014

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 2014 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 and the agricultural land category in the settlement lands category.
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