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About Bernard Buigues
- Bernard Buigues (born 19 July 1954 in Fes, Morocco) is a French explorer who has organized expeditions to the North Pole and Siberia since the early 1990s.
- He has developed a logistical base in Khatanga, Northern Siberia for the launching of high-latitude expeditions.
- He is the founder and leader of Mammuthus, a scientific expedition-centered program aimed at constructing a record of paleobiodiversity through the collection and preservation of fossils throughout the Siberian Arctic.
- This collection is poised to provide insight into environmental mechanics, ecosystems, the evolution and extinction of species, as well as their interactions.
- Bernard Buigues is credited with three important discoveries in Siberia — the Jarkov Mammoth, Yukagir mammoth and Lyuba, the 42,000-year-old baby mammoth featured in the National Geographic documentary "Waking the Baby Mammoth" and displayed at the "Mammoths and Mastodons: Titans of the Ice Age exhibition" at the Field Museum in Chicago.
- Bernard Buigues is also one of the initiators of Tara expedition, a multi-year program dedicated to adding to earlier understandings of the origins of ocean life and famed for the 2007-2008, 1,800-km Arctic drift.
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