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CNN and EALAT on the Yamal Peninsula

The EALAT team workshop on the tundra North of Yar Sale on the Yamal Peninsula caught the attention of the international media - CNN World Report will be featuring a story made by their Russian partners RBC which will be shown on the CNN Network this Saturday, October 13th. The feature will be part of [...]

ICR Activities, World Environment Day, EALÁT News

World Environment Day was launched in Tromsø today, and IPY IPO Director David Carlsen was a keynote speaker where he chose from the hundreds of IPY projects the EALÁT project as one of IPY highlights. He also showed a short interview with World Reindeer Herders Association Secretary General Johan Mathis Turi which highlighted the importance [...]

More EALAT outreach

The recent visit by EALAT to Nadym was also covered in the local media on the Yamal Peninsula, who covered the event and interviewed Project Leader Dr. Svein Mathiesen. In other EALAT coverage, IGLO (International Action on Global Warming) a project of the US based Association of Science-Technology Centers, (ASTC) highlighted EALAT in their IGLO [...]

Dagbladet TV features EALAT today

Norwegian media Dagbladet featured an article about EALAT, reindeer husbandry and climate change in Finnmark today. A video clip using Reuters material was utilised and an interview with local herder Nils Peder Gaup and his mother Karen Anne Gaup.

EALAT Work Package One Meeting

EALAT Work Package 1 Meeting in Oslo today. EALAT Project leaders Ole Henrik Magga and Svein Mathiesen, ICR Director Anders Oskal and EALAT team members Inger Marie Gaup Eira are in Oslo today meeting with Inger Hanssen Bauer and Eirik Førland at the Norwegian Meteorological Institute.

WRH/ICR Presents at Arctic Council and more

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 [...]

Future Challenges for Reindeer Husbandry

ICR attended the ‘Future Challenges for Reindeer Husbandry’ workshop in Umeå, 20-21 March, organised by the Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry. EALÁT project leaders Dr. Ole Henrik Magga and Dr. Svein Mathiesen were in attendence with Magga presenting the EALÁT project and the importance of traditional knowledge in general. EALÁT researcher Dr. Bruce Forbes [...]

NBR/NRL Conference 20 March, Alta

An extremely well attended seminar on the issue of reindeer grazing areas in Norway was held in Alta today. Hosted by NRL/NBR, Reindriftforvaltningen and EALAT outreach, over 140 herders, researchers, administrators and students packed the hall. Facilitated by EALAT researcher Inger Marie Eira Gaup, EALAT project leader Svein Mathiesen was amongst the presenters, which was opened [...]

EALÁT joins Nenets spring migration

EALÁT researcher Ellen Inga Turi will be joining Nenets reindeer herding “Brigade 8” on their three week spring migration from the town of Yarodei to Yar-Salei on the Yamal
Peninsula: This represents an unprecedented opportunity for Turi and the EALÁT team as Turi continues her work in comparing the adaptive capacities of Sámi and Nenets reindeer [...]

EALAT researchers join spring migration in Yamal

EALÁT researcher Ellen Inga Turi and Lars Miguel Utsi will be returning to Nadym this weekend to take part in a three week spring migration with Nenets herders with whom connections were made during the recent trip to Nadym. The pair will join the migration in Yaru Dei and travel North across the Ob river [...]