PHOTO CREDITS

The Northern Forum wishes to thank the following photographers, business partners and regional administrations for the authorization to use their work:

• Kimmo Laisalmi (Lapland, Finland) - Contact: kimmo.laisalmi@lapland.fi. Web site: http://www.lapland.ws/lapland/english/lappiinfo/index.html

• Juha Lehtomaki (Oulu, Finland) - Contact:  juha42@tilhi.com. Web site: http://tilhi.com/photostories/oulu/

• Evgenia Arburgaeva (Sakha, Russia) - Contact: arbugaeva@yandex.ru. Web site: www.yakutiatravel.com and www.sakhainvest.ru.

• Arkady Sukhonin (Chukotka, Russia) - Contact: arcticars@mail.ru

• Nikolai Kokovin (Sakha, Russia - brown bears)

• Kazutoshi Hiyeda (Hokkaido, Japan - brown bears) - Contact: shotty@apost.plala.or.jp

          Web site: www.hiyeda.com

• The Ministry of Environmental Protection, Sakha Republic (Russia)
• The Administration of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug (Russia)
• The Administration of the Komi Republic (Russia)
• The Administration of the Vologda Oblast (Russia)
• The Administration of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug (Russia)
• The Tourism Department of the State of Alaska (U.S.)
• The Hokkaido Prefecture Administration (Japan)
• The Heilongjiang Province Administration (China)
• The Administration of the City of Akureyri (Iceland)
• Cruise West (Alaska, U.S.)
• Kometos Oy (Lapland, Finland)
• Neste Oil Oy (Lapland, Finland)
• Global Information Technologies (U.S.A.)
• the staff and friends of the Northern Forum.

Please visit their websites and see more interesting and unusual 

photographies. These photos are copyrighted, so we would appreciate if you refrained from copying them without the proper authorization from the photographer or the Northern Forum. To obtain authorization from the Northern Forum, please contact: nnovik@northernforum.org.