In the scientific literature, savannoids are referred to under various names. Researchers of the vegetation of the Central Asian mountains, based on the dominant ecobiomorph, classify them under a wide variety of vegetation types, which is explained by their distinctive character.
Forest is a multifaceted concept. It can be examined from a natural-historical perspective (as a natural phenomenon), as well as in technical, economic, legal, historical, and medical aspects.
Jailoo. The wild beauty of bountiful nature and the free nomadic life are the desired reward after the harsh trials of long winter days and the severe fodder shortage of early spring. A mild summer on high-mountain pastures makes the nomad's hard labor feel like a celebration.
Representatives of the Environmental Movement 'BIOM,' the Global Forest Coalition, and national environmental organizations took part in the National Presentation of the draft resolution of the 75th session of the UN General Assembly, 'Nature Knows No Borders.'
Humanity currently faces a number of global challenges. By global challenges, we mean the abrupt changes in the social, informational, and natural environment of human habitation that have occurred over the past 100 years in almost the entire world.
The decline of biodiversity in Kyrgyzstan over a long period of time has been caused by a number of factors, particularly the disruption of the habitat conditions of natural communities or their direct destruction.
Our own State Agency for Environmental Protection and Forestry does not have enough salaried positions for nature protection, even for those species of animals and plants included in the Red Book of the Kyrgyz Republic.
The tree is a symbol of Life. It gave rise to humankind. Humans are the fruit of the Tree of Life. But a fruit that is unable to reproduce Life, yet is able to worsen and even destroy it.
We were dining in the basement room of the 'Leningrad,' reportedly the most fashionable evening restaurant in Kyiv. Professor Porshnev presided. Seated around the table, in order, were young psychologists — Andrei Brushlinsky (Institute of Philosophy, USSR Academy of Sciences), Rita Bobneva (Institute of Sociology, USSR Academy of Sciences), and Aron Brudny (Institute of Philosophy, Kyrgyz SSR Academy of Sciences). Given the combination of personalities, we were sitting not so much at a table as on a powder keg ready to explode at one careless word. Everyone in this small circle of candidates and doctors of science was militantly denying something — the work of this or that scholar, this or that psychological school, these or those experimental methods.
These notes are based on conversations with students about the collection 'Psychology, Linguistics, and Interdisciplinary Connections' (eds. T.V. Akhutina and D.A. Leontiev), published in Moscow (Smysl Publishing) in 2008 and devoted to the many-faceted scholarly work of A.A. Leontiev. There were several such conversations, and material published by R. Frager and J. Fadiman in the encyclopedic volume 'Personality' (Moscow, Olma-Press, 2002) is also used here. In essence, the issues discussed here are of known interest to students and teachers, participants in a seminar on the problems of communication. I would like to note that the free form in which the material is presented should not trouble a reader interested in the mutual influence of understanding and communication.
