Kronotsky Nature Reserve Kronotsky Nature Reserve Kronotsky (Кроноцкий) Nature Reserve (also: "Kronotsky Biosphere Zapovednik") is a nature area reserved for the study of natural sciences in the remote Russian Far East, on the coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula. It was created in 1934 and its current boundary contains an area of . The largest lake in the reserve is Lake Kronotskoye, which covers an area of . It also has Russia's only geyser basin, plus several mountain ranges with numerous volcanoes, both active and extinct. Due to its often harsh climate and its mix of volcanoes and geysers, it is frequently described as
Nature Conservation Act 1992 Nature Conservation Act 1992 The Nature Conservation Act 1992 is an act of the Parliament of Queensland, Australia, that provides for the legislative protection of Queensland's threatened biota. As originally published, it provided for biota to be declared "presumed extinct", "endangered", "vulnerable", "rare" or "common". In 2004 the act was amended to more closely align with the IUCN Red List categories: "presumed extinct" was changed to "extinct in the wild" and "common" was changed to "least concern". "Near threatened" was introduced as an eventual replacement for "rare", but the latter was to be phased out over time rather than immediately