Icelandic Minister for Environment Takes Reindeer to Heart
(pic: Páll Stefánsson) In areas of reindeer husbandry in Norway, Sweden or Finland, it is difficult to imagine that a reindeer that wandered onto a farm would get much hospitality. Harder still to imagine is that a Minister for Environment might get involved to argue that the reindeer must be protected and allowed to live, over the wishes of their national Environment agency. Even the farmer concerned wants to rescue ‘Lif’, an orphaned reindeer calf. Yet, that is exactly what has happened in Iceland, which as we all know is a little bit different. Read the full story here.
Many may not know that there are reindeer on Iceland at all, where a small scattered wild herd (no herding here) is concentrated in the East of the island and is subjected to an annual commercial hunt.
We pray Lif has been placed into a good home whether or not she/he can ever return to the wild. This story has the makings of a good movie.