The Guide Environmental Group is a Nature Conservation NGO established in 1995 for supporting of long-term public initiatives directed to protection of biodiversity in Kaliningrad region of Russia as a part of the Baltic Sea Region. The main priority of the organisation is development of environmental education.

The most large-scale programme of the Guide implemented in cooperation with Centre for Environmental Education & Tourism (Kaliningrad) is the Nature Keepers Educational Network. The Nature Keepers unite more than 50 schools and other educational institutions and cover more than 5 thousands schoolchildren every year. They work within the framework of the Programme for School Environmental Monitoring which includes quarterly practical seminars and trainings for teachers in different towns of the region, seasonal poster conferences for teachers and schoolchildren in Kaliningrad, publishing and dissemination teacher guides and quarterly Network reports, summer expedition and the Nature Keepers School. The Network participants work within such actions as "Help birds in winter!" (feeding and counting winter birds on feeders), "Snowdrop" Operation (researching and protecting first spring wildflowers), "Our Common Heritage" (researching local natural, cultural and historical heritage) and "Leaves Fall" Operation (composting autumn leaves instead of burning them and studying tree species and soil inhabitants). Each subject includes both cognitive, research, creativity and practical (Nature protection) tasks.

Another bright example of the Guide activities is coordination of World Bird Watch in Kaliningrad region every first weekend of October. 3074 people took part in this action in 2005 in Kaliningrad. The region is in the first three regions of Russia by popularity of bird watching. Every winter hundreds of schoolchildren feed birds at their yards, in parks and by ponds.

The Guide is also responsible for projects directed to development of Nature tourism, transboundary cooperation and specially protected nature areas. For examples, the Guide runs the programme on Nature protection in Neman Delta.

The organisation is an observer to Coalition Clean Baltic since 2002 and a member of the Russian Bird Conservation Union (BirdLife-Russia). At the moment, the Guide unites 269 members including schoolchildren, university students, teachers, scientist and people of different professions. The Guide has three local branches: in Slavsk district (Neman Delta), Isakovo settlement (Gur'evsk district) and in Kaliningrad city.

Contacts:
President: Alexey Golubitsky, (+7 4012 467874, algoal@mail.ru)
Development manager: Ismail Nigmatoulline (mob. +7 902 2193521)
Address: Botanicheskaja St. 2, office 18, Kaliningrad, 236006, Russia
Phone/fax: +7 4012 464486
E-mail: guideinfo@mail.ru
Web-site: www.guideinfo.nm.ru