Reindeer Blog

ICR Director Anders Oskal was in Bardufoss this week making a presentation to the Crisis Response Group which comprises of people from the reindeer herding districts of Troms County and the Reindeer Husbandry Administration (Reindriftsforvaltningen) and the Food and Drug Administration (Mattilsynet). Topics covered included climate change and the ACIA report and added a circumpolar perspective. He also [...]

 ICR provides a lot of photographs regarding our work with the EALAT project, snow and snow change. GRID Arendal are preparing a report called Global Outlook for Ice and Snow and ICR provided images by Lars Miguel Utsi and Inger Marie Gaup Eira, both EALAT team members. We also provided images for GoNorth, a University of Lapland, [...]

More than ten Norwegian State Secretaries are visiting Kautokeino today for a tour of the various institutions here, including ICR. Among the guests will be AID Department State Secretary Berit Oskal Eira. Anders Oskal made a  short presentation about the work of ICR to the delegation as they passed through. Tomorrow they travel to Karasjok [...]

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 will be attending the 2 day conference (Wed 11 April – 12 April) organised by Statoil regarding future scenarios of oil and gas development in the European North. ICR employee Elna Sara will be attending.

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 [...]

ICR Director Anders Oskal is in Tromso today attending the 2nd Statoil Impact Assessment on behalf of the centre. Other participants include AquaNIVA and Norut NIBR.

The programme for the 12th International Arctic Ungulate Conference (AUC) has been announced and can be viewed here. The ICR and EALAT team will be in attendence.