It is necessary to create centers of public demand for solving environmental problems.

I believe we need to create centers of public demand focused specifically on solving interconnected environmental problems — the kinds of issues whose resolution would allow us to address many problems at once. But since, under today’s political and social conditions, protecting nature is extremely difficult and in many respects impossible, such centers must be permanent and long-term, steadily and persistently working to achieve solutions at the state level.

There is no other way.

Banning the felling of oak trees in the wild means preserving a center of interspecies connections, protecting the food base of wild animals, and ensuring their survival. The destruction of oak trees directly undermines the framework of biological systems and “drives the final nail into the coffin” for our fellow creatures.

The same applies to Siberian pine forests, which are now being literally wiped out across the Russian Taiga.

Let us now talk about tigers. How can they be protected without restoring their habitat, banning the further destruction of their protected refuges, and securing their food base? At the very least, we must begin by banning recreational sport hunting in tiger habitats and preventing big business from moving into these areas with large-scale logging and resource extraction. Without these measures, protecting the tiger is impossible — entirely, completely, absolutely.

The situation is exactly the same in every other area. But this requires a properly functioning system of state governance, scientific commissions, the identification of the main systemic problems where serious failures are occurring, and the development of a strategy for overcoming the current crisis.

In the chaos that is unfolding everywhere today, this is impossible. But we can at least try to launch long-term initiatives and move, step by step, toward systemic change, while simultaneously defending fragments of wild nature from further destruction! At the very least, we can try to restrain, even if only slightly, all the madness taking place today.