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Russia Creates New Polar Bear Habitat

Posted by Janelle Nanos on June 16, 2009
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russian-polar-bear-picture.jpgAre you a fan of polar bears? (Who isn’t?!) Well there’s some good news from our friends over at the NatGeo News Watch blog:

Russia will create a new 3.7 million-acre (1.5 million-hectare) park in the Arctic, a central area for the Barents and Kara Sea polar bear populations, WWF said today.

Announcing the park, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said he hoped it would be a major attraction for tourism, and announced that he personally plans to vacation there, WWF said.

The new Russian Arctic park is located on the northern part of Novaya Zemlya, a long island that arcs out into the Arctic Ocean between the Barents and Kara Seas, WWF said. It also includes some adjacent marine areas.

Check out the entire post for more info on the park.

Photo: NGS photo of polar bear in the Russian Arctic by Gordon Wiltsie

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  1. Shailendra
    June 16, 2009, 4:24 pm

    Other counties should also take some steps like this to save wild life. It’s not only about polar bears, its about all endanger species in the world.
    Shail : Agra India

  2. Canadian Tourism
    June 17, 2009, 5:15 pm

    Fantastic that more land is being reserved for these beautiful creatures. Here’s a brief film on Polar Bear viewing in Churchill, Manitoba

  3. Kadiedra Crawford
    November 13, 2009, 5:28 pm

    aww i love polar bears they are sooo cute, but thier are other endangered animals in the world. We need to save them too.

  4. Rob
    February 20, 2011, 9:42 pm

    That’s great. There are far too few refuges for animals.