It has been identified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area (IBA) because it supports populations of various water- and wetland birds including Swan Geese, Greater White-fronted Geese, Whooper Swans, Oriental Storks, White-naped Cranes and Red-crowned Cranes.
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Birds for which the site is significant include Swan Geese, Bean Geese, Greater White-fronted Geese, Scaly-sided Mergansers, White-naped Cranes, Red-crowned Cranes and Dunlins.
Shoyna lies immediately south of the 167 square kilometer Shoyninsky State Nature Reserve, established in 1997 to protect the spring and autumn staging area for the Lesser White-fronted Goose (Anser erythropus), an Arctic species threatened with extinction.