Endangered Wildlife Killed in Russian Nature Park Fire – Activists Updated: Jan. 11, 2021 Regional authorities said the Khasansky nature park fire spread across more than 4,000 hectares. Alexander Ryumin / TASS
Man-made fires have burned down forests and killed endangered animals at a protected Russian nature park on the border with China and North Korea, Russian activists say.
Animals including Far Eastern forest cats as well as several endangered species either burned alive or died by asphyxiation while endangered plants such as relict oaks burned to the ground at the Khasansky nature park in the Primorye region of Russia’s Far East, environmentalist Olga Dymnikova said Saturday.