History and Background
Phoenix Fund was founded by Russian and U.S. conservationists and registered in Vladivostok as a Russian non-profit, non-governmental organization in March 1998. The logo of the organization is the Phoenix_(mythology), which rises anew from its own ashes after death, a symbol of everlasting revival. The logo was chosen to reflect the rebirth of the Russian Far East's wildlife and habitats following environmental degradation at the end of the Soviet Union.
In 2006, Sergei Bereznuk received one of the Whitley Awards (UK) for outstanding achievements in nature conservation, related to the protection of the Amur Leopard from oil pipeline development. The pipeline was believed to be a grave threat to threatened biodiversity across Siberia and the Russian Far East.
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