Fauna of the Baikal coast is typical for East Siberian region. A relational integrity of the nature, a small number of tourists and large forest spaces allow to keep a great population of animals.
Among predators the most common species are wolf, fox, brown bear, sables. To meet a brown bear is... Read more
Lake Baikal is located in the zone of a temperate sharply continental climate, it has an influence in the first place on the flora along the shores of the lake. Naturally enough if we begin to travel around the lake, we are sure to notice differences between steppes of the western part of the... Read more
The only mammal that lives in Lake Baikal is nerpa or the Baikal seal. Till now it stays unknown how seals could appear in the lake, a very remote place, thousands kilometres from the ocean, traditional seal habitat. The main hypothesis is that seals went up along the Yenisey and the Angara rivers, reached... Read more
