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Director of the ‘Volcanoes of Kamchatka’ Natural Park Lyubov Timofeyeva speaks on what inspired her to change the prestigious post of a managing director at a major company for a post in the ‘remote area’

Irina Vysokikh, Minister of Entrepreneurship, Trade and Tourism of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), tells ‘EcoTourism Expert’ about the country’s most exotic festival ‘Winter Starts in Yakutia’

Pavel Severinets, the director of Moscow school No. 444 with a strong focus on physics and mathematics, an experienced ecotourist and initiator of the ‘ДиректорВпоход’ (DirectorGoesHiking) programme, talks about the convergence in the environmental education, why the school’s flag appeared at the North Pole, how to teach ecology to children, and why he was invited to the Rosa Khutor tourist cluster by the ecotourism professionals

Here lies the border of Europe and Asia, and the open spaces of the Park are like a multicolored site connecting the north and south of Eurasia

The director of the Altai Reserve about the history of one of the oldest reserves in Russia and its most interesting natural attractions

Director of the National Park Viktor Grishenkov spoke about reserved lands, rare animals and cultural and historical landmarks

The key to a successful ecotourism destination lies in active participation of the local host community, says Partha Pratim Das, a wildlife conservationist from Assam (India)

The director of the WWF-Russia shared his plans for the next five years

Aged 89, he opens the mountain skiing season in Bansko in winter together with famous champions, and in summer, he climbs up to the mountains to remove rubbish

The story of how the founder of a successful online farm food store moved from Moscow to a village in the Yaroslavl forests near the ancient Lake Pleshcheyevo and launched a new project - a farm and a weekend restaurant