Reindeer Blog

In a long interview with the newspaper Vedomosti, the  new (ish) Kola Peninsula regional Governor Dmitry Dmitriyenko said that his administration plans to establish 100-200 km wide zones for reindeer herds. This will help raise productivity, the governor argues. Today, reindeer herds migrate over major parts of the peninsula and unlike reindeer husbandry in the [...]

In a billowing cloud of white, Russia’s Arctic herders drive thousands of panting and wild-eyed reindeer through the knee-deep snow to the first slaughter this year. But warm winters in recent years have forced herders here in the far northern Kola Peninsula to delay for months the rounding up of their reindeer from the vast [...]

Russian scientists have doubts over whether global warming is here to stay and whether it’s man made. But for the Saami in Russia’s north, the mild winters already pose a threat to their traditional way of life. All around the Arctic, the effects of a temperature rise are visible, and native inhabitants of the tundras in [...]

 (Pic: NRK) Wolves have been reported in both Finnmark and the Kola Peninsula in two seperate events this week.  RIA Novosti  reported that a pack of wolves has mauled to death a unique herd of reindeer near the northwestern Russian city of Murmansk. The attack occurred at a reindeer farm owned by a local Sami community [...]

(pic from Barents Observer) In a press release from Vancouver, Centrasia Mining Corp. announced that drilling has started on its 100% owned, Tsaga Platinum Group Metals (“PGM”) prospect on the Kola Peninsula, Russia – adjacent to Lovozero and in a region of reindeer husbandry. The Tsaga property covers an area of 1,970 square kilometres and is adjacent [...]

You can shoot a wild reindeer for 300 rubles (8.4 Euros) with a permit in the Kola Peninsula region until the end of February according to a report in the Russian news source B-Port though how hunters would distinguish from wild and semi domestic reindeer is left to the imagination, given an earlier reindeerblog story [...]