Reindeer Blog

While the world has heard a lot about the impact of the Icelandic volcano on air traffic and the economy, what about its impact on Iceland’s reindeer? In the last few weeks, the world could hardly have failed to have heard about the Icelandic volcano with the difficult to pronounce (for non Icelandic speakers) name. [...]

(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 [...]

(Iceland -Original story Morgunbladid mbl.is)  The staff at East Iceland Natural History Institute is quite busy these days making reindeer calves and counting wild reindeers in the eastern part of Iceland. One staff member was lucky to get away alive when a reindeer attacked him.