Reindeer Blog

Пресс-служба Государственного Собрания (Ил Тумэн) Республики Саха (Якутия) сообщает, что депутаты парламента приняли в ходе XVI пленарного заседания республиканский закон об этнологической экспертизе в местах традиционного проживания и традиционной хозяйственной деятельности коренных малочисленных народов Севера.

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 [...]

The Saami Council, the NGO that represents the Sami people in all four countries in which they live have released a strongly worded press release criticising the German bank KfW IPEX for their funding of a giant wind power project in Sami reindeer herding areas, in contravention of the OECD Convention on Multilateral Enterprises. In [...]

The Board of the University of the Arctic (UArctic) has approved the establishment of UArctic Institute for Circumpolar Reindeer Husbandry, as a result of the International Polar Year (IPY) project and the IPY EALÁT project.

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, [...]

Газпром приступает к выполнению обязательств по компенсационным мероприятиям при освоении месторождений полуострова Ямал. В этом году в рамках заключенного с администрацией ЯНАО договора ООО «Газпром добыча Надым» выделяет на строительство жилья, объектов социально-культурного и хозяйственного назначения для коренных малочисленных народов Севера 2 млрд. 689 млн 90 тыс. рублей.

Wind power, power lines and hydroelectric power development in the years ahead may lead to new huge encroachments in the Sámi reindeer herding areas in Norway. Around 260 such projects are now being examined in the offices of the  Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate (NVE), according to a story in today’s NRK Sami Radio. The [...]

Вице-президент ассоциации «Оленеводы мира» бьет тревогу «Дайте оленеводу Якутии оленей и пастбища!» – такой простой призыв прозвучит на Международном семинаре «ЕАЛАТ», который пройдет в феврале в селе Хатыстыр Алданского района. Представитель всех пяти народов, занимающихся оленеводством в республике, вице-президент ассоциации «Оленеводы мира» Мария Погодаева привезет на семинар проект, который может стать актом справедливости по отношению [...]

Russia Today have a short video that features a reindeer herding family in the village of Varyogan, Khanty Mansisk, Russia. Khanty and Mansi peoples are ancient reindeer herding peoples, but their traditional livelohoods have come under a great deal of pressure from development, most particularly the oil and gas industry, which has been active for [...]

Al Jazeera is not the first network that springs to mind when thinking of reindeer, but this is an excellent overview of the threats faced by reindeer herding Sami in Sweden, and these are the same threats that reindeer herders and other indigenous peoples practicing traditional livelihoods face elsewhere. You can watch the video here [...]