Large amounts of waste left on Uragangari Island breeding ground of polar bears

Extinction is threatened as the Arctic warming progressesPolar bear. One of its breeding grounds is Russia Far Eastern Federal DistrictChukchi Autonomous RegionIt is inUrangheries Islandis.

In addition to polar bears, seals and lemings are breeding grounds, and in 2004 it was also registered as a natural heritage of the UNESCO World Heritage site, but the waste left by the people who once lived It is a state that the environment is never nice. What is the state of the island now?

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Gorshkov sergey - СЛЕДЫ НА ЗЕМЛЕ ИЛИ КТО В ОТВЕТЕ ЗА НАШУ АРКТИКУ?

This is a photographer'sSergei GorzhkovIt seems to have been taken by. Rusted drum cans are left over there on the island.


Once the government has set up trade bases and reindeer farms, military airfields and anti-aircraft gun positions on this island, the village where only 200 people live has tons of fuel and oil, work equipment, food reserves It was. However, people left this place, leaving garbage and unnecessary facilities as it was. These wastes are settled on the south side of the island where facilities were concentrated.


Due to the corrosion of drums, gasoline, oil and light oil that still remain are leaking out and there are also places where the soil is contaminated.


A polar bean showing her face through the gap between the drums.


Polar bear walking around the building around where the people once lived.



I think that it is probably an antenna, but what is visible to polar bears?


Polar bears walking in majestic nature ......, but behind the scrapped tank.


A considerable amount of money is needed to process all these waste, but depending on countries such as Russia, USA, Canada etc.PAME (The Protection of the Arctic Marine Environment)It is said that Urangeli Island was not included in the protection range of.


For the time being, the environment of the island seems to remain as it is in the future.