Old taiga forest in northwest Russia now a nature reserve
Intensive logging is no longer permitted in the 3,000 square kilometres area now known as the Dvina-Pinega nature reserve. “Today,
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Russian Arctic National Park director aims to boost tourism
The establishment of a special customs regime around the remote archipelago of Franz Josef Land, in Arctic Russia, would boost
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Sanikiluaq, Nunavut wins $5.5M to lay groundwork for protected area on Belcher Islands
A project to expand community-driven science and lay the groundwork for a protected conservation area on the Belcher Islands has
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Can the environment withstand Arctic Russia’s coal mining boom?
Climate crisis and environmental concern notwithstanding, Russia says it aims for a big dig of the carbon-rich rock. Much of
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Final agreement signed to protect Peel watershed in northwestern Canada
It has taken more than 15 years of consultations, protests, court battles and more consultations — and now a final
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Major land use agreement to be signed in Yukon, northwestern Canada
It has taken more than 15 years of consultations, protests, court battles and more consultations — and now a final
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New Indigenous protected area created in Northern Canada
A remote Indigenous community in Canada’s Northwest Territories is celebrating today the creation of a new Indigenous protected area that
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Moscow supports Vostok Coal’s expansion into protected Arctic tundra
Company Vostok Coal has been been fined several hundred million rubles for illegal mining in Russia’s Taymyr Peninsula, but still
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First Nation in Canada’s Northwest Territories votes to support creation of national park reserve
Members of the Lutsel K’e Dene First Nation voted in favour of the proposed Thaidene Nene National Park Reserve on
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Trump’s pick for U.S. Interior secretary has worked for Alaska and energy industry
U.S. President Donald Trump has nominated David Bernhardt to be the next secretary of Interior, to replace Ryan Zinke. Bernhardt
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Alaska’s Murkowski aims to revive public lands bill in U.S. Senate
One of Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski’s first priorities in the Congress that begins Thursday is to pass a 680-page public
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Finland’s national parks popular despite poor maintenance
Finnish national parks are in high demand, but about a third of their paths are in moderate or serious disrepair,
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U.S. Gov quietly allows land survey in Alaskan wildlife refuge, enviro groups furious
Conservation groups say the Interior Department has gone behind the public’s back and conducted a land survey in the Izembek
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Finnish national parks will remain free despite budget woes
Outdoor destinations managed by the state forest agency Metsähallitus will still be free for public use regardless of budget shortfalls,
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Trump claims Alaska wildlife refuge road ‘almost completed’… but is it?
President Trump on Tuesday asserted the controversial King Cove road through the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge (southwestern Alaska) will be
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