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2 billion rubles will be allocated to support the indigenous peoples of Taimyr until 2025

As reported in the national park, this guy under the number Leo 10M is a real star. Popularity came to him in 2013 during the all-Russian voting in the competition "Come up with the name of the leopard."

Egypt has begun to introduce the United Nations (UN) standards aimed at protecting the environment. In the resorts of Hurghada, Marsa Alam and Dahab, it is now prohibited to use plastic bags and disposable houseware.

Legal entities and individual entrepreneurs who are involved in the development of ecotourism in Karelia will receive money back for part of the costs for creating the appropriate infrastructure, as announced by Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Republic Yanina Svidskaya. She explained that such an opportunity is provided as part of amendments made to national legislation adopted in September 2019.

The KamAZ-based offroad vehicle – mobile laboratory – was demonstrated at the II International Conference “Natural Tourism: A Global Challenge and the Discovery of Russia,” which is taking place these days at the Rosa Khutor Ski Resort, Sochi.

The law on the development of rural tourism in Russia will be submitted to the State Duma in the short term. This was announced by the UN Goodwill Ambassador, First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee for Physical Education, Sports, Tourism and Youth Affairs, Vyacheslav Fetisov, speaking at the II International Conference "Natural Tourism: A Global Challenge and the Discovery of Russia", which is currently taking place at the Rosa Khutor ski resort in Sochi.

Over the past year, the number of tourists in the Arctic has significantly increased. Despite tough ice conditions in the Barents Sea near the Franz Josef Land Archipelago and Novaya Zemlya, a flow of people wishing to visit this region with severe weather is growing steadily. This summer, 1,306 tourists visited the Russian Arctic National Park. Visitors arrive here by cruise ships and yachts.

The photo exhibition of the eco-volunteer project "Become a Member of the Eco Team", organised during the V Eastern Economic Forum and the Street of the Far East festival by the Ministry of Natural Resources of Russia, remained as a permanent exposition at the Far Eastern Federal University on Russky Island, says the report from the SUEK press service.

Paleontologists from Yekaterinburg discovered a burial of ancient cave bears in the Urals. The remains are more than 30 thousand years old, said a senior researcher at the Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology of the Ural Department, the Russian Academy of Sciences, Pavel Kosintsev, cited by the Russian Geographical Society.

The legal and practical side of ecological tourism will be the main topics at the II International Conference «Natural Tourism: Global Challenge and the Discovery of Russia», which began today at the Rosa Khutor ski resort. During the discussion sessions specialists will be able to share their knowledge and experience as well as discuss new public and legislative initiatives necessary for the sustainable development of ecotourism in Russia.