The possibility to stay away from the bustle and daily problems in the middle of the innocent purity of unexplored wilderness helps a modern person to have a rest, to relax, to have a new look on oneself and the outside world. That is because everything here is understood through the prism of purity, freedom and lucidity. This can be compared to the look on the Earth from space, the same holistic view.
Since 1994 the leader of the programs Oleg Prodan annually organizes the communication with the Northern animate nature. There are a lot of famous people among the guests: Laima Vaikule, Leonid Yakubovich, Dmitry Krylov, Viktor Gusev, Aleksey Yablokov, Maria Vorontsova, Artemy Troitskiy, Alena Sviridova, Alexander F. Sklyar, Irina Turina, the journalists of the leading media companies and many other interesting people.
The participation in the Wildlife Discovery Club programs gives the possibility to contribute directly to preservation and development of the White Sea coastal villages. The money from the tourism is used for the creation of new working places, for the preservation of natural and cultural diversity. Now the one third of working population of the Letnyaya Zolotitsa municipal district is working in the hotel during the whole year. The taxes also remain here, because the Wildlife Discovery club is registered in the village of Letnyaya Zolotitsa.
The guests of the “Letnyaya Zolotitsa” resort are offered a possibility to visit wonderful places and to watch animals in their natural surroundings. The most well-known are the visits to the harp seal pups – the fluffy white-coat seals, also to the smiling white whales, and to the ringed seals, sunbathing on the stones. Bird-watch is very interesting too.
The species composition of mammals, birds, and fish fauna of the surroundings is extremely diverse. There are about 200 species of woodland, semi-aquatic and aquatic birds. The conditions for their nesting are particularly favourable. Many of these birds are in the Red Book, for example, the yellow-billed loon, the tundra swan, the barnacle goose and others.
The flora is represented by 550 species of plants. The plant community is rather diverse, there are plenty of berries: cloudberry, cranberry, lingonberry, stone bramble, crowberry and others. Mushrooms are very tasty here, it is a perfect food source and, moreover, they are well-known as natural doctors. About fifty species of mushrooms were found here and all of them are edible. There are 16 species of blewits, the porcini mushroom being the most remarkable for its various healing properties, especially the anticancer ones.