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The project “Walruses of Russia” was initiated in 2008 by Marine Mammal Council with support of WWF Russia. Urgent need to pay serious attention to this marine mammal species in Russia has been conditioned by the following factors:
- Russian part of Atlantic walruses’ range is an area of active prospection, extraction and transportation of hydrocarbons;
- Laptev subspecies is the less studied part of the world walrus population;
- Global climate changes in the Arctic have led to dramatic transformation of living conditions of Pacific walruses.
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