Keywords
protected area
microplastic
Nizhnesvirsky Nature Reserve
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Abstract
Plastic pollution is one of the most acute global environmental challenges of the 21st century. Despite their special protected status and restrictive human activities, protected areas (PAs) are subjects to the external plastic debris pollution. This short communication provides the preliminary research results of the study of plastic pollution on the coast of the Svir Bay within the boundaries of the Nizhnesvirsky Nature Reserve. The findings reveal a total of 109 anthropogenic litter items, with a plastic density of 0.04 items/m2, which indicates the existence of external sources of plastic pollution associated with the human activities on Lake Ladoga and confirms the relevance of the problem.
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