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Russian Arctic National Park director aims to boost tourism

27 September 2019 11 h 20 min — 27 September 2019 11 h 22 min Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer 0 Comments cruises, Franz Josef Land, national parks, Novaya Zemlya, Russian Arctic National Park, 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

4 September 2019 14 h 03 min — 6 September 2019 10 h 37 min CBC News 0 Comments Belcher Islands, conservation, indigenous, Inuit, national parks, Nunavut, Sanikiluaq

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?

23 August 2019 14 h 12 min — 26 August 2019 10 h 40 min Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer 0 Comments coal, emissions, energy, mining, national parks, POLICY

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

23 August 2019 11 h 54 min — 23 August 2019 14 h 12 min CBC News 0 Comments conservation, First Nations, indigenous, national parks, Peel watershed, Yukon

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

22 August 2019 10 h 24 min CBC News 0 Comments conservation, First Nations, indigenous, national parks, Peel watershed, Yukon

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

21 August 2019 16 h 13 min — 23 August 2019 11 h 45 min Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International 0 Comments conservation, Dene, First Nations, indigenous, Lutsel K'e, national parks, Northwest Territories, NWT, Thaidene Nene

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

7 August 2019 10 h 46 min — 7 August 2019 10 h 52 min Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer 0 Comments coal, Dikson, energy, mining, national parks, Northern Sea Route, shipping, Taymyr peninsula, VostokCoal

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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Alaska’s Murkowski aims to revive public lands bill in U.S. Senate

3 January 2019 9 h 57 min Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media 0 Comments Alaska, forests, Lisa Murkowski, Mike Lee, national parks, US Senate, Utah

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

13 September 2018 12 h 14 min Yle News 0 Comments conservation, Infrastructure, Metsähallitus, national parks, nature, parks, tourism

Finnish national parks are in high demand, but about a third of their paths are in moderate or serious disrepair,

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Finnish national parks will remain free despite budget woes

6 July 2018 12 h 04 min — 6 July 2018 13 h 26 min Yle News 0 Comments conservation, Infrastructure, Metsähallitus, national parks, nature, tourism

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?

27 June 2018 10 h 49 min — 27 June 2018 10 h 54 min Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media 0 Comments Alaska, ANWR, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Donald Trump, federal preserves, Infrastructure, Izembek National Wildlife Refuge, King Cove, Lisa Murkowski, national parks, roads

President Trump on Tuesday asserted the controversial King Cove road through the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge (southwestern Alaska) will be

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Supreme Court’s rehearing of hovercraft hunter case could test Alaska’s sovereignty

20 June 2018 10 h 34 min — 20 June 2018 10 h 42 min Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media 0 Comments Alaska, federal preserves, hunting, law, Nation River, national parks, rivers, Supreme Court

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to rehear the case of an Alaska moose hunter whose use of a hovercraft