Reindeer Blog

The Moscow Times informed that “RusHydro” will not decide on whether to build a dam in Evenkia this year, the company said Friday, after the project was lambasted at public hearings in Krasnoyarsk. The Energy Ministry has finished work on the 2020 general plan of power generation, which predicts a growth in annual power consumption [...]

– Reindeer Husbandry is the big loser in the Norwegian media, said Nils Henrik Sara, the leader of the Association of Norwegian Sámi Reindeer Herders (NRL), at a media seminar that was held in Kautokeino Saturday 14th of November. Sara says reindeer husbandry not been able to reach out with their opinions or what they [...]

In northern Norway, each year, reindeer migrate from the interior to the coast in an ancient movement coupling animals and people. In contemporary times, with dramatically increased settlement and development on the coast this has meant that summer brings stories of conflict between reindeer husbandry and cabin dwellers, farmers, mining interests, municipalities and others. Unfortunately, [...]

Браконьерство на Кольском полуострове представляет собой острую проблему для оленеводства. В подтверждение  этого Вашему вниманию представлена статья Татьяны Рязановой, опубликованная 15 апреля 2009 г.  на информационном портале “Мурманский вестник”. – Сегодня охота на дикого оленя у нас в области больше всего похожа на беспредел, – возмущаются оленеводы. – Сколько можно об этом говорить? – первое, [...]

The ongoing discussion between reindeer herders and farmers in the Alta region specifically (but elsewhere too) is again in the media. A former state secretary with responsibility for reindeer husbandry

Although on paper, Sami reindeer herders have a statutory right to graze their reindeer over half the surface of Sweden, in practice, industrial activities such as mining, hydropower, logging, infrastructure and the new kid on the block, windpower development culminate in a progressive loss and fragmentation of pastures. There are now 14 wind power parks [...]

(Pic. Helsingin Sanomat) Three Sami reindeer herders from Nellim, in Northern FInland have just lost their case against the Finnish state forestry giant Metsahallitus in the Lapland District Court. The reindeer herders argued that the logging practices of Metsahallitus was destroying reindeer pastures – ground lichen and hanging tree lichen and were not only threatening [...]

(Pic-Philip Burgess). With the coming of summer and the migration of reindeer from Finnmarks’s interior to the coast, the local media has lately been filled with stories about the reinplagen. This translates as ‘reindeer plague’, a disease which sounds deadly, but so far, only reindeer have died as a result. It relates to reindeer grazing in urban and agricultural areas [...]