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E.
Kumari considered one of the most important objectives of the commission
the compilation of the red data book. The commission has continued this
up to the present day.
The practical work started in 1975. The scientific manuscript version of the book (4 copies) was finished in 1979. The authors of the book were mainly researchers of the Institute of Zoology and Botany. It contains data on 259 species. The popular version of the red data book (compiled by E. Kumari) meant for wide public appeared in 1982. The next version of the red data book was prepared under the supervision of Arvi Järvekülg. The lists of species (315 species) were completed for 1988. The book, however, remained unpublished due to the big changes taking place in the Estonian community. The lists were published in 1993. The third red data book (data on 1312 species) of Estonia prepared in collaboration of 25 natural scientists appeared as a publication of the Commission for Nature Conservation in 1998 owing to the financial support of the Ministry of the Environment and the Environment Foundation. The editor and compiler of the book, Vilju Lilleleht, has written in the introduction: The aim of the Red Data Book of Estonia is the estimation of the state of the species of living nature and lower taxa inhabiting our area, and of the whole nature, paying attention to the tendency that species diversity is decreasing, and calling up for obviating that danger and giving elementary knowledge of nature conservation activities. In the beginning of 2002 Estonian Red Data book became available in the Internet: http://www.zbi.ee/punane/ In the end of 2008 the new Estonian Red List of Threatened Species was compiled according to the rules of IUCN. The new database is available on eBiodiversity website. |
 Red Data Book 1982  Red Data Book 1998 
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