Great NEWS! Ski resorts are booming in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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Igora Will Take Resort to New Heights
February 6, 2007
St. Petersburg -- The latest addition to St. Petersburg's ski-resort map will soon complete $20 million worth of development that will allow it to become "the first year-round [ski] resort complex [in the region]," managers of the Igora complex said at a recent news conference. Representatives of Igora, a ski resort 54 kilometers north of St. Petersburg, said a spa complex and swimming pool would feature in the development and add to an already diverse range of services that the resort hopes will improve its attractiveness to visitors.
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More good news. There are two and one half times more polar bears than originally thought!
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Davis Strait polar bears flourishing, GN says
February 2, 2007
“Scientific knowledge has demonstrated that Inuit knowledge was right” The Davis Strait polar bear population is much more numerous than originally expected, says a preliminary report conducted by Government of Nunavut biologists.
There are some 2,100 polar bears in the Davis Strait population, says the report, which is part of a three-year study currently underway. That’s a big jump from an estimate of about 850 Davis Strait polar bears made by the Canadian Wildlife Service during the early 1980s.
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