The collection of signatures of Alaska natives has been organized under a petition to the state authorities demanding to protect them from the breeding population of muskoxen, writes the online resource change.org.
According to the author of the convention, stemming from an ineffective hunting and conservation strategy, muskoxen have become an invasive species dangerous and lethal to humans. As ways to solve the problem, it is proposed to shoot aggressive muskoxen and drive the herd away from settlements.
Muskoxen are a prehistoric arctic land mammal that disappeared in Alaska by the early 1900s. Since the reintroduction of this species in the 1930s (specifically in the Bering Strait Region in the 1970s), their existence their existence began to threaten man.
Norilsk Nickel has begun accepting applications for its World of New Opportunities program - a competition of the social projects in the regions where the company’s enterprises operate
The project's volunteers cleared the Arctic territories in the villages of Batagai and Eshaya in two days Verkhoyansky district, collecting more than 30 tons of waste
The Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute has announced that the research vessel "North Pole" has departed from Murmansk with a team of scientists aboard, heading towards the Novosibirsk Islands
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