Andrey Popov spoke about the experience of the Taymyr Peninsula in the Krasnoyarsk Region, where licensed musk oxen hunting is allowed YAKUTSK, August 13. /TASS/. Taking musk oxen off Yakutia's ...

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Greenland is the world’s 12th-largest country, covering more than 2.16 million square kilometers (836,330 square miles).

Climate change and the hunting have led to their extinction in the region. The reintroduction of musk oxen into Siberia began 50 years ago. In 1974, Canada presented the Soviet Union with 10 musk ...

Living in small societies built around a few families, they moved with the seasons to hunt seals, polar bears, walruses and beluga whales on the coast and caribou and musk ox on the tundra.