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Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre will exploit Swedish leadership role in the EU and the Barents co-operation to get wider European interest in the North and the Arctic. – From a Norwegian point of view, it is interesting that Sweden in a few month, have the Presidency of both EU and Barents Cooperation. Wednesday [...]

Anders Oskal, World Reindeer Herders Assocation and Director of the International Centre for Reindeer Husbandry made a brief presentation to the Senior Arctic Officials in Tromso today, as the SDWG gave a progress report to the SAO’s. All senior Arctic officials were present, including several new observers to the Council including China and Italy. In [...]

The Arctic Council SDWG endorsed the EALAT project as an offical Arctic Council project today in Tromso. ICR Director Anders Oskal introduced the audience to the information and outreach portions of the EALAT project with a presentation. World Reindeer Herders President Dmitry Khorolia also made a follow up presentation accompanied by a short ICR film [...]

ICR Director made a statement to the SDWG yesterday, thanking Sweden for their efforts in organising a workshop in Umea, emphasised the challenges faced by reindeer husbandry as a result of climate change and globalisation and proposed to the floor that WRH organise a follow up workshop with a more circumpolar emphasis. You can read [...]

ICR and WRH are attending the Arctic Council Sustainable Development Working Group in Tromso this week as Norway kicks off it’s chairmanship of the Arctic Council for the next two years. The AC secretariat is based in Tromso. At the end of the week, the Senior Arctic Officials meet and will be attended by WRH [...]