MOSCOW, March 22. /TASS/. A network of four multipurpose observation stations will be organized at the Bear Islands Nature Reserve in Yakutia's north in 2024, said the Lena Pillars National Park's Director Arkady Semenov, managing the nature reserve.
"A standard complex is based on modules made of shipping containers. It has two residential modules for inspectors, expedition members, and two more non-residential modules to store equipment there, as well as a sanitary accommodation unit," he said at the Polar Bear Universe international conference.
Thus, he continued, the staff and scientists will be safe, as they will be protected from polar bears. The stations will have communication, monitoring, data receiving and transmitting complexes, helicopter pads and aircraft landing points, UAV sites, and autonomous power supply systems. They will be equipped to conduct comprehensive environmental monitoring, he added.
The reserve unites the Kolyma River delta, the Indigiro-Kolyma lowland tundra landscapes and the Bear Islands Archipelago with the adjacent waters of the East Siberian Sea. The Bear Islands Archipelago is one of the main places in Yakutia where polar bears have ancestral dens.
The Polar Bear Universe 7th international conference ran on March 19-21 at the Skolkovo Innovation Center in Moscow and in Chukotka's Anadyr. Following the conference, the country plans to create a permanent international expert platform on Arctic biological diversity. TASS was the conference's general news agency.