Tatyana Kirikova

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1989 at Malaya Logata/Taimyrski Zapovednik entertaining the Soviet-German expedition team
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Curlew Sandpiper with chicks at Malaya Logata (1989 Taimyr expedition). Photo: Peter Prokosch

 

As a Russian living in Ukraine as well as ornithologist, nature-tour guide, Arctic expedition team member and conservationist, I am interested to get involved in projects of Linking Tourism & Conservation. I was born in the Far East of  Russia in the city of Artem near Vladivostok, but lived most of my live in the Ukraine and studied biology at the university of Melitopol. My dissertation in progress focuses on “The impact of feeding recourses on the distribution and numbers of tundra waders at the migratory stopovers of the Azov-Black Sea coast of Ukraine”. As a member of the first Soviet-German Taimyr expedition in 1989 I got already interested in Arctic waders, and participated later in many international scientific expeditions, particular to Taimyr and other North-Sibirien destinations, including the Kolyma delta in Yakutia.

 

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Danube Delta. Photo: Igor Gerzhik, photographer, biologist, traveler and member of the National Union of Photographers of Ukraine

I had got my education at the Melitopol Pedagogical Institute as teacher of geography and biology and worked two years in a common school. I have also degrees in hydro-technical fields from my time at the Fishery Technical Training School [Rybopromyshlenny tekhnikum] in Dmitrov, Moscow region, Russia.

 

Since 1992 I worked at the Asov-Black Sea Ornithological Station and studied wader ecology in the South of the Ukraine (Asov-Black Sea coast including Sivash) and was thereby involved in protected area issues. Today I see a particular sense to assess possibilities to establish new protected areas in the Ukraine with support of tourism.
Kuyal’nitskiy estuary (Black Sea region). Photo: Igor Gerzhik

Kuyal’nitskiy estuary (the Black Sea region)

Floodplain forrest, Danube Delta. Photo: Igor Gerzhik

This way I am discussing LT&C initiatives and potential projects with the public research organization “Bukovynian Society of Nature Investigators” (BSNI) in Chernivtsi, Ukraine. They are since long time directly and professionally involved in the development of protected areas (nature reserve fund) and ecotourism (tourism in protected areas),  including the mountainous areas of the Ukrainian Carpathians in the context of the implementation of the Carpathian Convention. The President of BSNI is Vitalii Korzhyk, who has a Ph.D. in geography and is the Deputy Director on Science of the Khotynskiy National Natural Park. Vice President is Illia Chorney, D.H. in biology, professor, Chief of botany, forestry and garden-parks economy department at the Chernivtsi National University.

 

Category Individual
Type Tour Guide, Expedition Leader or Naturalist
Membership type Royal Penguin
Website https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5haeXIg-gS4
Contact person Tatyana Kirikova
Email address tatyana.kirikova@gmail.com
Phone number +380979476059
Skype kirikova_tatyana
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