Source: World Wildlife Fund
Date: July 6, 2007
Science Daily — A new nature reserve has been approved for Vaigach Island in the western Russian Arctic by the Nenets Autonomous District administration.
Vaigach Island in the western Russian Arctic will become a nature reserve. (Credit: Copyright WWF)
The new 243,000-hectare nature reserve will help protect threatened arctic species such as polar bears, Atlantic walrus, white-beak loon, and one of the region’s largest mass nestings of waterfowls.The island is surrounded by the Barents and Kara seas and its coastal waters are frequented by a number of marine mammals including Atlantic walrus, grey seal, harbour porpoise, bottlenose dolphin, humpback whale, northern blue whale, northern fin whale and sei whale. In recent years the numbers many of these species has become unstable.Read more…
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