Reindeer Blog

Mongolia has suffered  a “Dzud”, which is a multiple natural disaster consisting of a summer drought producing small stockpiling of fodder, followed by very heavy winter snow and lower than normal temperatures. Heavy and continuous snowfall and blizzards have resulted in a sharp fall in daily temperatures – dropping to below -40°Celsius in 19 out [...]

Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy (Pic & Story Source: msnbc) HOVSGOL PROVINCE, Mongolia –  Bayanjargal laughed as she watched the three of us from NBC News turn on our cell phones for the first time in 24 hours and maniacally start emailing and texting. We probably were a ridiculous sight – [...]

ABC News have a video about the Dukha reindeer herders of northern Mongolia, one of the oldest reindeer peoples in the world. Also featured is Dan Plumley who has been working with Dukha reindeer herders for over a decade and is Director of the Totem Peoples Preservation Project. Watch the video here.

На сайте бурятского еженедельника “Информ Полис” опубликована статья Виктора Шоно о жизни оленеводческого народа Духа (Цаатаны), которые разводят оленей в Монголии. “Прошёл месяц с момента нашего пребывания в сомоне Цагааннуур на берегу живописного озера Доод Цагааннуур Были отсняты первые кассеты об уникальной по своей красоте природы Дархадской котловины. Уже не так холодно по утрам в [...]

With the global economic crisis that is hitting peoples on the margins the hardest, the Itgel Foundation, based in the US, which works with Tsataan reindeer herders in Mongolia, has launched a seasonally minded Adopt a Reindeer appeal. They intend to use funds raised to support their ongoing work with reindeer husbandry in Mongolia and [...]

The work of the Itgel Foundation was covered in a recent Voice of America radio programme. The Tsataan are an indigenous people living in Northern Mongolia,  south of the Sayan mountains in Russia, the region from which reindeer husbandry is said to have originated. Small herd size, poor economic prospects and diminished herd health along [...]