10-18-2019
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.
10-12-2019
During the summer field season of 2019, employees of the Russian Arctic National Park first installed the SEELOCK photographic recorder (camera trap) next to the park’s base at the Cape Zhelaniya (Novaya Zemlya). The goal was to observe the pups of the arctic fox hence the location of the camera trap was chosen two kilometers away from the coastline in the ruins of the former military unit.