Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula: A majestic land of volcanoes and bear-trodden wilderness
The IndependentFor free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Indeed, say “Kamchatka” to a Russian, and many will respond with a dreamy look and a wistful “Oh!” The peninsula, farther east than Japan, represents a distant otherworld of majestic, magnetic wilderness. “In essence, the entire ecosystem of Kamchatka is built on the carcasses of spawning salmon.” Bears, trees, everything grows bigger. Brown bears fish for salmon on a river in Kamchatka The crux of the problem, explained Sergey Vakhrin, a conservationist who founded a nonprofit organisation called “Country of Fish and Fish Eaters”, was that fishing companies, corrupt politicians and enforcement agents, along with the criminal “poaching mafia”, worked in concert. “We need to protect not only Kamchatka, but nature in Russia in general,” says Roman Korchigin, deputy director for Ecotourism and Education at the Kronotsky Reserve.
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