&lt;div class=&quot;track&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.22.2/16799?ns=guardian&amp;pageName=Siberia+home+to+yeti%2C+bigfoot+enthusiasts+insist%3AArticle%3A1645449&amp;ch=Environment&amp;c3=Guardian&amp;c4=Wildlife+%28Environment%29%2CRussia+%28News%29%2CEnvironment%2CCanada+%28News%29%2CAmericas+%28News%29%2CWorld+news%2CEurope%2CUS+news%2CZoology%2CBiology%2CScience&amp;c5=Unclassified%2CWildlife+Conservation%2CNot+commercially+useful%2CEthical+Living%2CNorth+America+Travel&amp;c6=Miriam+Elder&amp;c7=11-Oct-11&amp;c8=1645449&amp;c9=Article&amp;c10=News&amp;c11=Environment&amp;c13=&amp;c25=&amp;c30=content&amp;h2=GU%2FEnvironment%2FWildlife&quot; width=&quot;1&quot; height=&quot;1&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;standfirst&quot;&gt;Russian tundra said to reveal evidence that prompts conference visitors to be 95% sure of abominable snowman&#039;s existence&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The vast Siberian tundra holds untold mysteries, from once-secret nuclear installations to alleged UFO crash sites.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Now, a team of scientists say they are &quot;95%&quot; sure that Russia&#039;s wintry expanse is home to the mythical yeti, otherwise known as the abominable snowman.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;More than a dozen scientists and yeti enthusiasts flew in from Canada, Estonia, Sweden and the US to exchange findings with their Russian counterparts at a day-long conference in the town of Tashtagol, some 2,000 miles east of Moscow in the Kemerovo region. Locals there have reported an increase in sightings of a creature in recent years.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A two-day expedition to the region&#039;s Azassky cave and Karatag peak over the weekend &quot;collected irrefutable evidence&quot; of the yeti&#039;s existence there, the Kemerovo government claimed in a statement. &quot;In one of the detected tracks, Russian scientist Anatoly Fokin noted several hairs that might belong to the yeti,&quot; it added. Scientists also found footprints, a presumed bed and various other markers.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Conference participants came to the conclusion that the artefacts found give 95% evidence of the habitation of the &#039;snow man&#039; on Kemerovo region territory,&quot; the statement said.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;I know they exist &ndash; I see them every day,&quot; a conference participant, Robin Lynn, said by telephone from Kemerovo. She says she has a family of 10 yeti-like creatures living on her land in the US state of Michigan.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Evidence of yeti life of the creature has allegedly been found in the Himalayas and North America, where it is know as sasquatch, or bigfoot. John Binderangel, a Canadian wildlife biologist who has been studying the yeti for 30 years, said the Siberian expedition offered further proof of the beast&#039;s existence.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;We were shown some twisted willow branches that are referred to as markers &ndash; they were convincing evidence of this hominoid,&quot; he said. &quot;There were also some tracks, but we&#039;re not quite sure what to make of them.&quot; Conference participants called for the launch of a campaign to &quot;work out a more serious relationship [to the yeti] in society and mass media&quot;, the Kemerovo government said. They also proposed opening a university research centre.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Kemerovo government has hosted a number of stunts aimed at boosting the region&#039;s reputation as a yeti centre.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Last month, it welcomed former heavyweight boxing champion Nikolai Valuev on a search for the yeti. 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