A brown bear feasts on salmon, which are plentiful at Kurilskoye Lake natural reserve, on the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia, Aug. 20, 2019. Famous for its exceptional flora and fauna and farther east than Japan, the peninsula does not resemble anyplace else in Russia, and for many Russians represents a distant otherworld of majestic, magnetic wilderness. (Sergey Ponomarev/The New York Times)