Nature

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The mobile environmental laboratory in Norilsk has expanded the scope of accreditation and will be able to participate in supervisory activities together with inspectors from the Ministry of Ecology of the Krasnoyarsk region - to take air samples at the Norilsk Industrial Region facilities. Previously, ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. A month ago, employees of the Krasnoyarsk park of flora and fauna Royev Ruchey met a flight from Hatanga, on board of which there was a female musk ox, orphaned at birth and rescued in Taimyr. She was two weeks old at the ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Norilsk photographers Mikhail Podolyak and Sergey Dokukin shared the first spring pictures of one of the most popular holiday destinations among the townspeople - Red Stones. “This year I wanted to shoot the gorge earlier - I had long dreamed that there would still be ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Over the past two years, paleontologists have found the ancient animals remains in the Pyasina River valley in Taimyr: plesiosaurs’, mosasaurs’ and turtles’ teeth, vertebrae, skull fragments. Isotope analysis showed that reptiles lived on the peninsula about 100 million years ago, the water temperature in ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The Taimyr Reserves directorate employees posted on their website a reminder for visitors to specially protected natural areas. Illegal fishing there is not only prohibited, but severely punished. As an example, the inspectors cited the case of a poacher who had to pay a ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The well-known Norilsk photographer Mikhail Podolyak shared impressive pictures of the melting multi-colored glaciers of the Ambarnaya river on his VKontakte page. Mikhail travels to these places every year, watching how the water grows in layers - one year the river glacier is larger, the ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The Moscow Zoo director Svetlana Akulova in her social networks spoke about an unusual way of rehabilitating Dixon, who was rescued last year in the north of the Krasnoyarsk region. The bear then received severe gunshot wounds. The Red Book animal has a ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The Norilsk-Taimyr Energy Company (NTEC) released the first batch of sturgeon juveniles into the Yenisey: this is how Norilsk Nickel is implementing a program to develop bioresources. NTEC implements the terms of the settlement agreement with the Federal Agency for Fishery, signed in 2022. According ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. More than 500 activists from the northern territories, including Norilsk, Kayerkan and Dudinka, took part in the Unified Arctic litter pick 2023. For comparison, last year 300 people came out to clean up. The second environmental campaign results were discussed at the Arctic Development ...