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The Joint Norwegian-Russian Environmental Status Report for the Barents Sea

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Polar bears partying on a dead whale carcass. Photo NPIThe BarentsPortal is a project implemented under the Joint Norwegian-Russian Commission on Environmental Protection. The Portal, which is a joint Norwegian - Russian instrument designed for the mutual exchange and presentation of information and environmental data relevant to the management of the Barents Sea, is intended to serve as the future tool for updating of the recently published Norwegian - Russian environmental status report published here, and for further cooperation on ecosystem-based management of the Barents Sea.

The BarnetsPortal is a combined web site. It consist of two main elements; presentation of the Joint Norwegian - Russian Environmental Status Report and the Map service. The Report will be updated at regular intervals - initially started with data from 2008. The Map service will continually publish environmental theme data as they become available.  The portal is developed by Norwegian Polar institute in comprehension with SEVMORGEO.

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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 18 August 2010 12:27 )  

Status Report. The authors

Puffins in the Barents Sea. Photo NP 

More than 100 experts from a total of 9 Russian and 20 Norwegian institutions have participated in the preparation of the report, and the work has been organized in 13 expert groups. The work has been led by Sevmorgeo and PINRO on Russian side and on Norwegian side by the Institute of Marine Research and the Norwegian Polar Institute..

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The Russian - Norwegian cooperation

Waving kelp at the Norwegian coast. Photo IMR

BarentsPortal is a project developed under the Joint Russian - Norwegian Commission on Environmental Cooperation. The joint environmental report is a co-operation project between the Joint Russian - Norwegian Commission on Environmental Cooperation and the Joint Russian-Norwegian Fisheries Commission

Read about Joint Russian - Norwegian Commission on Environmental Cooperation (unfortunately only in Norwegian - please use web based translation)

Read about the Joint Russian-Norwegian Fisheries Commission