Reindeer Blog

Finland’s rare wild forest reindeer may be facing total extinction, says the Finnish Hunters` Association. The group is calling for Finland and the EU to jointly protect the wild reindeer by further regulating the population of large predators. The sharp drop in the number of wild Finnish forest reindeer (Rangifer tarandus fennicus) is attributed to [...]

ON THE PORCUPINE RIVER TUNDRA, Yukon Territory (Source: AP) — Here on the endlessly rolling and tussocky terrain of northwest Canada, where man has hunted caribou since the Stone Age, the vast antlered herds are fast growing thin. And it’s not just here. Across the tundra 1,500 kilometers (1,000 miles) to the east, Canada’s Beverly [...]

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 [...]

(pic: Páll Stefánsson) In areas of reindeer husbandry in Norway, Sweden or Finland, it is difficult to imagine that a reindeer that wandered onto a farm would get much hospitality. Harder still to imagine is that a Minister for Environment might get involved to argue that the reindeer must be protected and allowed to live, over the [...]

(Iceland -Original story Morgunbladid mbl.is)  The staff at East Iceland Natural History Institute is quite busy these days making reindeer calves and counting wild reindeers in the eastern part of Iceland. One staff member was lucky to get away alive when a reindeer attacked him.