that on the coast unexpectedly sailed and settled there for a time almost a thousand pinnipeds our newspaper wrote last fall. Never before so many “tourists”-the walrus, the long-listed in the Red book of the Yamal arrives. As scholars have noted, the record was marked 34 years ago, then the Yamal Peninsula has recorded 384 walrus.
after a month or lastnega “tourists” here waiting again. Good, now for them ready and they will not have to huddle among rusty barrels and broken bricks.
Eight volunteers of the interregional ecological organization “Green Arctic”, arrived on the Yamal Peninsula from across the country for three weeks, collected 180 tons of metal, including 3000 two hundred liter barrels and 12 huge tanks, dismantled the old residential building of the weather station and 12 other temporary buildings. All debris stockpiled on designated areas of coastline, so it can be removed and utilised.
to Get in the squad of ecovolunteers, frankly, is not easy. There is a rigid selection. First, you need to be physically strong – potaski out yourself rusty iron. Secondly, psychologically stable and no bad habits. In addition, it requires special training. And yet the squad did not take the girls, even as cooks, because this work in extreme conditions requires stamina.
Guys come to clear cluttered Islands in the Arctic for several years. Usually the squad consists of volunteers from different countries of the world. But now the plans violated the pandemic, no one from abroad could not come.
– the Arrival of volunteers from other regions of the country were planned taking into consideration the strict compliance with all health requirements, including a two-week observation upon arrival, – told the Chairman of the “Green Arctic” Eugene Rozhkovskaya.
Today at Cape Harasavey already working scientists from Scientifically-a forwarding centre for the study of marine mammals. They set the camera at a coastal haulout, put satellite transmitters on walruses. Experts say the Centre, it is considered that the rare Atlantic walrus prefers such regions of the Russian Arctic as the Pechora sea, North of Novaya Zemlya and the Franz Joseph. As for Yamal, traditionally rookeries is not the case, previously recorded only isolated and short-term outputs of animals on the shore.
That brought the walrus to the Yamal Peninsula, is still unknown. Among the hundreds of pinnipeds at haul out sites were females with cubs of different ages. One version is that the staged walrus rookery on Kharasavei due to global climate change, in particular, reductions in the extent and thickness of pack ice. It is on this ice, walruses, form rookeries during the reproductive period for mating and childbirth. The ice melts, which leads to a reduction in suitable resting places near the optimum feeding areas.
