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18.05.2021

The Kronotsky Nature Reserve agrees with the statement of Russian President Vladimir Putin about the need to treat protected area visitors “not as strangers, but as friends, close ones."

The Valley of Geysers is a unique geothermal area, one of a kind on the territory of Russia and Eurasia, it is one of the five major geyser fields on the planet. Fortunately for our country, the Valley of Geysers remains the only place in the world where no geyser has been damaged by human impact.

30.04.2021

The stone birch in the Valley of Geysers can earn the title "Russian tree of the Year"

A three-hundred-year-old stone birch (Ermana birch) in the Valley of Geysers represents Kamchatka at the competition «Russian Tree of the Year - 2021». You can choose #главноедеревостраны (the main tree of the country) on the website of the All-Russian program «Trees - natural monuments» www.rosdrevo.ru, you can vote until August 1.

22.04.2021

A month of silence has begun in the Kronotsky Nature Reserve

The number of helicopter excursions in the Uzon-Geyser area of the biosphere reserve has been reduced to a minimum. The annual conservation event is held in order to reduce the burden on the unique natural complexes and not to disturb the animals during the breeding season. The restrictions will remain in effect until the 30th of June.

16.04.2021

Scientists: Kamchatka's wild reindeer are unique

This was revealed as a result of a genetic examination carried out in the laboratory of the A. N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. Experts examined the DNA of animals from the largest group on the peninsula, which was preserved in the Kronotsky Nature Reserve.

04.08.2020

The documentary “Nerka. The Red Fish" conquers the world

The movie about wild salmon has already received dozens of awards at film festivals in different countries. Wild salmon reproduce in the Kuril Lake on the territory of the South Kamchatka reserve and provide the well-being of the ecosystems of the South of Kamchatka and the inhabitants of fishing villages. The national premiere of the movie will take place on August 30th. The film was honored to close the 6th international documentary film festival "DOKer" in Moscow.

27.07.2020

Souvenirs of the Kronotsky Reserve can be received by post now

An online store has been opened on the website of the Kronotsky Reserve, where the entire range of souvenirs can be found, starting with magnets and T-shirts with branded symbols and ending with scientific publications and colorful informative photo albums about the protected nature.

10.07.2020

Penelope awaits while Veter is rambling: foxes filming continued

Each fox family is usually an object for separate observation because the interfamily relations are always different. Several years ago the mother and her elder daughter who has already had her own cubs united and formed a certain kindergarten for youngsters. Sometimes the father takes an active role in pups’ upbringing – he brings food and plays with the young.

06.07.2020

Education program for families launched on the Kurile lake

Participants come from next to South Kamchatka Federal Reserve territories – Ozernovskiy, Pauzhetka and Zaporozhye settlements. Parents and their children headed towards the preserved lake to get to know some new facts about Kamchatka nature, flora and fauna of South Kamchatka and learn the basic safety rules on being good neighbors with bears. Kronotsky reserve experts help them with it all.

05.07.2020

Kronotsky reserve reopened for visitors again

After a spell of rains along the whole biosphere reserve territory the natural fire danger class has been degraded. Kamchatka residents can already visit the reserve while there are still restrictions for visitors from other regions till July, 15th.

29.06.2020

A set of precision instruments for Chukotka lakes exploration has been prepared by Russian scientists

Detailed and extensive research of distant Chukotka lakes ichthyofauna is quite a complicated but attractive challenge from scientific point of view. Besides discovered species common description there is also a number of biochemical experiments carried out, genetic probes taken and an overall lake ecosystem estimation is made. This combines hydrological and hydrobiological research (mostly on fish nutritive base). Important parameters are water-level fluctuations and temperature alterations on different depth levels throughout the year.