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Russia’s Kola peninsula gets a new national park

Parts of the area now protected are of importance for the reindeer herders and Sámi people that are hunting and fishing.

By Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer February 20, 2018
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Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on Monday signed a decree protecting 840 square kilometers (about 325 square miles) of the Khibiny Mountains.

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