Russia - National Park Kytalyk

The National Park Kytalyk territory is one of the most important natural areas of the Eastern Palearctic. It includes, on the one hand, a cross-section of tundra typical for the region, and on the other hand, the large areas of heavily watered and swampy terrain, characterized by unique qualitative and quantitative indicators of biodiversity. The Park is of great scientific and educational value as a habitat for endangered species of animals and a concentration of key ornithological territories (sites of mass nesting and molting birds), as well as a living space for nomadic tribal communities leading a traditional way of life. The Park territory is the breeding ground of a huge number of birds that mainly use the East Asian-Australasian Flyway. Among them is the Siberian crane Eastern population, the Critically Endangered representative of the world's avifauna. There are reference and diverse objects and phenomena of the inanimate nature of the National Park, associated mainly with permafrost, permafrost processes and phenomena, as well as zonal-latitudinal and landscape-climatic features. First of all, these are: permafrost outcrops; thermokarst manifestations (thawing of permafrost), which create peculiar relief forms: frost-breaking cracks, baydzharakhs and pingos; northern lights, polar day and polar night. These and other objects and phenomena are a kind of scientific testing ground, including for the study of current climate change.