Posted by Philip Burgess on March 31st, 2008
The Russian veterinary service has registered rabies in a group of 46 reindeers which suddenly died this month in a farm in the Komi Republic. According to Rosbaltnord.ru, the 46 animals which died in the “Severny” farm in Usinsk, the Komi Republic, all had rabies. The animals were all part of a bigger herd, which at the moment is on pasture lands in the Nenets Autonomous Okrug. Emergency situation authorities in the region are now discussing ways to prevent the dangerous disease from spreading (Barentsobserver).
СЫКТЫВКАР, 25 марта. На пастбище оленеводческого хозяйства «Северный» в Усинске (Республика Коми) с 9 марта произошел падеж 46 оленей. Об этом ИА «Росбалт-Север» сообщили в отделе по связям с общественностью и СМИ комитета ГОЧС Коми.
18 марта республиканской службой по ветеринарному надзору получен положительный результат исследований на бешенство. Исследования проводились в Федеральном центре охраны здоровья животных (Владимир). Отметим, район миграции стада — 25 км севернее поселка Верхнеколвинск и территория Ненецкого автономного округа (НАО). В настоящее время стадо, в котором выявлено заболевание, находится на территории НАО. О возникшей угрозе заболевания поставлены в известность ветеринарные службы Ненецкого и Ямало-Ненецкого автономных округов. Предполагаемая причина заболевания – перенос болезни песцами.
Как отмечают в отделе пропаганды комитета ГОЧС Коми, в целях недопущения распространения бешенства на территории городского округа 24 марта состоялось заседание Комиссии по чрезвычайным ситуациям и обеспечения пожарной безопасности Усинска.
(Rosbalt Nord)
Posted by Philip Burgess on March 27th, 2008
Two Sami villages in northern Sweden have been denied compensation from the state-owned mining company LKAB for the time village representatives spent on planning for the relocation of Kiruna. The reindeer herding villages of Gaban and Leavas first turned to the government for money to make up for time spent tending to the relocation of nearby Kiruna instead of tending to their reindeer. After the government refused the request, they then turned to the LKAB mining company for 500,000 kronor ($82,000) to cover income lost due to the consultation process.
LKAB is funding the relocation of Kiruna’s city centre so the company can continue operating a lucrative mine which has created underground cracks that threaten to sink the city in the coming years.
Read the Full Story Here (The Local.se)
Posted by mke on March 26th, 2008
С 7 по 10 апреля 2008 г . в селе Тополиное Томпонского района Правительство Республики Саха (Якутия) и Международный центр оленеводства (Каутокейно, Норвегия) готовят проведение Международного семинара “EALAT”, посвящённого 90-летию со дня рождения Погодаева Петра Егоровича - оленевода, участника Великой Отечественной войны.
В мероприятиях семинара примут участие оленеводы из 9-ти районов РС(Я), гости из Красноярского края, Чукотского АО, Ямало-Ненецкого АО, Норвегии, Финляндии, Монголии и Японии.
В рамках семинара планируется организация и проведение ежегодных республиканских мероприятий для сохранения языков, культуры, традиционных занятий коренных малочисленных народов Севера: праздник “День оленевода”, конкурсы ”Кочевая семья” и “Сээдьэ”, семинар “Семейная педагогика народов Севера”.
Posted by mke on March 17th, 2008
Во исполнении Якутской Декларации принятой на III Конгрессе Оленеводов Мира в г.Якутске 2005года в Беллетском эвенкийском национальном наслеге села Хатыстыр Алданского района 14-15 марта 2008 г. прошёл Слёт оленеводов, где было принято решение об открытии филиала Международного центра для таёжного оленеводства.
Posted by Philip Burgess on March 17th, 2008
“There are nine time zones and several thousand kilometres between Moscow and Chukotka. But it’s just a 40-minute flight from Alaska.” This article discusses Chukotka and the impacts of Abramovich’s policies as Governor. There is also a video interview with Tatyana Achirgina, who was a participant in the recent EALAT / Aween seminar and workshop in Anadyr, the capital of Chukotka.
Read the full story here
Watch the related video here
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Posted by Philip Burgess on March 11th, 2008
(Pic: BarentsObserver) On a recent trip to Yamal, the deputy CEO of Gazprom said that Bovanenkovskoe is on track to start production in 2011. (Об итогах совещания ОАО «Газпром» и Администрации ЯНАО по вопросам взаимодействия при обустройстве Бованенковского месторождения и строительстве системы магистральных газопроводов «Бованенково – Ухта»)
Bovanenkovskoe will be connected by pipeline and more than 2400 km of new gas pipelines need to be built, including about 1000 km from the field to Ukhta in the Komi Republic. The Yamal field will also be connected by railway line. The construction of the line “Obskaya- Bovanenkovo” was started last early last year. A total of 197 km of the line and 40 bridges have already been built. The pipeline and railway pass through the world’s largest area of reindeer husbandry.
(From Gazprom) In January 2002, the Gazprom Management Committee identified the Yamal Peninsula as a region of the Company’s strategic interest. The commercial development of Yamal fields will increase local gas production to 250 bcmpa. Accessing the Yamal is of utter importance for the purpose of ensuring gas production growth. 11 gas fields and 15 oil and gas condensate fields have been discovered in the Yamal. The total recoverable gas, condensate, and oil reserves amount to 10.4 tcm, 228.3 mln t, and 291.8 mln t, respectively. The aggregate reserves of the largest Yamal fields, namely the Bovanenkovskoye, Kharasaveyskoye and Novoportovskoye operated by Gazprom dobycha Nadym (a wholly owned subsidiary of Gazprom) under the respective licenses, account for 5.9 tcm of gas, 100.2 mln t of condensate, and 227 mln t of oil.
Posted by Philip Burgess on March 9th, 2008
(Pic AFP) A new President has been elected in Russia - and given the fact that most reindeer herders in Russia live in remote regions without roads, they are the first to vote, a fact that was much covered across the media. This story features an interview with a reindeer herder in the Nenets Autonomous Okrug. The recent EALAT workshop in Chukotka saw this at first hand with their visit to reindeer herders in Brigade 4, North of Kanchalan which had already been visited by snowmobiles and ballot boxes on February 16th.
(Pic: Philip Burgess. Election station in Anadyr, March 2nd, Chukotka) Native peoples were strongly represented in the election materials on view in the regional capital, Anadyr. Election time in Russia is one of the few times that Chukotka makes it into the national and international media, as it is the first region in the country to vote, being 9 hours ahead of Moscow. The turnout in Chukotka was one of the highest, with a record 83.5% turnout being widely quoted. The Governor of the okrug, Roman Abramovich was also making one of his rare trips to the region for the election, his private Boeing 767 sitting on the Anadyr runway as the EALAT team flew home.
(Pic: Svein Mathiesen. Anders Oskal at the new slaughter house in Kanchalan) The impact of the Governors policies on Chukotka are as visible as they are far reaching. ‘Roman Abramovich’s Chukotka Project’ in openDemocracy is an interesting account of the oligarch’s impact, which for reindeer herders is most visible in the construction of a modern slaughter house in the village of Kanchalan, a village of 750 people, the vast majority of whom are Chukchi and involved in reindeer husbandry.
Read a brief seminar report and pictures here on the Reindeer Portal
Posted by Philip Burgess on March 6th, 2008
(from Aftenposten) Reindeer herding in northern Norway is under constant threat from development that’s encroaching on grazing areas. Now state officials say they’ll heed warnings that reindeer operations will die out within 50 years.
“It’s a clear goal of this government to maintain today’s level of reindeer herding,” Ola T Heggem, state secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture (Landbruksdepartementet), told Aftenposten on Monday. “It will be preserved.”
This was in response to criticisms from the Sami Reindeer Herders Association about the loss of reindeer pastures due to uncontrolled cabin development.
Read the full story here.
Posted by Philip Burgess on March 6th, 2008
(From Helsingin Sanomat, March 2, 2008) ”…It is not immediately apparent that Nellim is a place where the three most enduring disputes of northernmost Finnish Lapland converge: the conflict over the use of forests, disagreements over land ownership and the rights of the Sami people, and the dispute over reindeer husbandry. All of these are interlinked. For the same reason, human relations in Nellim are tied up in knots…” Read the full article here.
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