Nature

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Established on February 23, 1979, by a decree from the RSFSR government, the state natural biosphere reserve comprises four sections: the Main Tundra Area, Lukunsky, Ary-Mas, and Arctic, located in the Hatanga and Dikson districts of Taimyr. The Arctic section was added later, created ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The Nature and People foundation plans to use radio collars to tag wild reindeer in Taimyr, where their numbers have decreased by four times over the past 20 years. This initiative aims to track their migration routes and provide better protection against poachers, according ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In the Russian ecological calendar, February 17 is celebrated as the Day of the Wild Northern Reindeer. These remarkable animals, which coexisted with mammoths, survived the Ice Age and have adapted to the harsh conditions of the Far North, gaining incredible features from nature. For ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. For nearly a decade, scientists from the Taimyr Nature Reserves directorate have been studying the musk ox population on the peninsula. The introduction of these animals to Russia occurred fifty years ago when musk oxen were brought from Canada in 1974, leading to ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Nornickel volunteers in the village of Nickel, along with specialists from the Pasvik Nature Reserve, are sewing eco-friendly reusable shoe covers for visitors to the Hans Skonning museum on Varlam island as the tourist season approaches. The initiative was proposed by the reserve’s staff ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The musk ox population on Taimyr is estimated to be around seven to eight thousand, significantly lower than the previously anticipated 13 000 to 15 000. This information comes from a study conducted by Siberian Federal University (SFU) in collaboration with the United ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Dendrochronologists from Russia, Denmark, Italy, and Germany have uncovered a remarkable juniper tree in the Arctic region of northern Finland, estimated to be 1647 years old, according to the press service of the Ural Federal University. The age of these plants is assessed by counting ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The world’s largest iceberg A23a, which broke off from the Antarctic glacier back in 1986 and came out into the open ocean more than a year ago, has lost about nine percent of its area during its drift in open water. “The world’s largest iceberg ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. A photo exhibition has opened in the Monchegorsk history museum to mark the 95th anniversary of the Lapland reserve founding, one of the largest protected natural areas in Northern Europe. It was created on January 17, 1930, to preserve the wild reindeer population and ...