Polar bears remain endangered, and one of the tasks in preserving the population of rare predators was the implementation of the project "The Owner of the Arctic" on keeping aerial tracking of polar bears, said Svetlana Radionova, the head of Rosprirodnadzor.
"Experts flew more than 30,000 kilometers across the Arctic zone of Russia and recorded 22 Red Book predators. And the participants of marine scientific expeditions reached the archipelagos of Novaya Zemlya and Franz Josef Land and found 20 more rare predators. Bio samples were taken from six of them, and collars with satellite transmitters were put on two females," the head of the department wrote in the Telegram channel.
According to Radionova, another problematic issue concerns the resolution of situations when predators come out to people. Over four years, the working group has reviewed more than 20 such incidents.
Alex Shishlo for Rough&Polished
