Reindeer Blog

(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 [...]

Journalists from Figaro (France), Eesti Paivalehti (Estonia) and TVR (Romania) were in Chukotka this week (home of ICR board member Vladimir Etylin, whose comments on the importance of castration in traditional herd management are now avaialable for viewing on the Reindeer Portal). The journalists visited Kanchalan and Anadyr, and visited reindeer herders on the tundra and made a [...]