The main threat to animals is illegal hunting, in which involved are both hunters and reindeer herders, as well as employees of industrial and resource companies YAKUTSK, April 15. /TASS/.

Scandinavia’s extremes have been shaped by ice and fire, but it’s the sun that reigns here. Polar bears, musk oxen and Arctic foxes must survive from the polar night to the midnight sun.

Animals are actively settling in Yakutia, and there have been occasions where some of them entered populated areas, Andrey Popov noted YAKUTSK, January 15. /TASS/. The musk oxen population in ...