Reindeer Blog

В газете “Якутия” вышла небольшая статья о ситуации в оленеводческом хозяйстве “Ленинский” Эвено-Бытантайского улуса Республики Саха (Якутия).
— Наше муниципальное унитарное предприятие, пожалуй, единственное в республике и в Эвено-Бытантае, сохранившее прежнее совхозное название «Ленинский», — закуривает сигарету директор хозяйства Семен Андросов. — Имеем восемь тысяч оленей (с частными — 12,5 тысячи), триста лошадей.
В этом году [...]

В оленестадах, пасущихся в районе села Иенгра и на территории Нерюнгринского района, продолжается отел важенок. По данным районного управления сельского хозяйства, к сегодняшнему дню отелилось 27 процентов олених.
Однако в этом году, как никогда, велики потери новорожденных детенышей оленей. Из 829 появившихся на свет тугутов к настоящему времени потеряно 149.
Главной опасностью для оленят в возрасте до [...]

(Pic: Dan Robert Larsen / NRK) Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, The Chair of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues visited a reindeer herd in the company of a reindeer herder from Karasjok, Johan Mathis Eira, among others. She compared the journey to the herd as like travelling in a fridge! Tauli-Corpus has been in Karasjok this [...]

Vapsten Sami village in Sweden has been granted state aid which enables them to test new methods in monitoring reindeer. Now, the reindeer will be fitted with GPS transmitters.
Jon Mikkal Labba, the leader of the Vapsten Sami village, says that he begins his working day by turning on the computer, to see how the reindeer behave [...]

There has been a widespread debate in the pubic sphere in recent months, regarding predator losses suffered by reindeer herders in Norway. There is a widespread perception that reindeer herders exaggerate their losses and in some cases falsify predator claims in their claims for compensation. This has primarily been led by environmental organisations, but also [...]

 (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 [...]

Samebyarna får fortsätta att vänta på besked om när resterande rovdjursersättningar kan betalas ut av Sametinget. Sametingets begäran om mera pengar från regeringen, internbereds fortfarande.Allt talar för att Sametinget antingen får låna av sina egna pengar för nästa år, eller att Finansdepartementet går med på att utöka checkkrediten för Sametinget med nio miljoner kronor. Det [...]

Handölsdalens sameby har ansökt om skyddsjakt på fem järvar och fem lodjur. Ansökan ligger nu hos Naturvårdsverket. Beslut väntas komma inom kort.
”Över 50 000 renar blir rovdjursföda”
Lennart Blindh som är ordförande i Handölsdalens sameby tror att varje sameby förlorar omkring 1000 renar varje år på grund av rovdjur. I Sverige finns det drygt 50 samebyar.
Samtliga [...]

(Pic and story Ságat) By using GPS transmitters on reindeer in the Skæhkere reindeer husbandry district in southern Norway, reindeer herders hope that in time it will be easier to document their large losses caused by predators. Herders in this district in Trøndelag spend a great deal of time looking for carcasses for documentation purposes.

(Pic – Torill Kolbu) There was an interesting interview with south Sami reindeer herder Jon Anders Mortensson in Ostlendingen today. Mortensson herding area is the Elgå reindeer district in the mountainous region of southern Norway. In this region there are six herding families, in all about 35 people, herding around 3000 reindeer.
Mortensson stressed the importance [...]