Evenk Reindeer Husbandry threatened by Pipeline
(Map - BBC News) Russia is forging ahead with ambitious energy projects in eastern Siberia, but the indigenous Evenk people are complaining that their age-old way of life is in danger. Work has begun on a 4,130km (2,560-mile) oil pipeline - the longest pipeline in the world’s largest country…Nikolai Martynov, an ethnic Evenk, thought Russia’s natural resources would bring his people wealth. But he says thousands of reindeer have been “driven away by the building work for the pipeline and other projects and we have fewer and fewer”, as quoted in an article by the BBC Viktor Kuznetsov, executive director of the Association of Minority Peoples, has studied the impact of energy projects on the Evenk people and in the article is reporting as saying that since 2001, the number of reindeer in the Irkutsk region - on which the Evenk economy depends - has diminished by 10%.
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Posted: October 11th, 2007 under Reindeer, Russia, oil and gas.
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