Reindeer Blog

Ask reindeer herders in certain parts of Norway and they will tell you that trains and reindeer do not mix. In the Norwegian media, there have been a series of stories about a series of deadly interactions between reindeer. A total of 1877 reindeer were run over by train in 2008 in Norway, despite the goals [...]

There was an interesting interview in RusBusiness News recently with Aleksandr Mazharov, the Director of the Department for International and Interregional Relations of YaNAO (Yamal Nenets Autonomous Okrug). Obviously, the vast majority and indeed focus of the Yamal economy is its oil and gas reserves.  95.5% of the regions exported products were oil and gas [...]

Традиционный уклад жизни ненцев оказывается под угрозой из-за глобального потепления и планов добычи газа.
Этот образ жизни – не затронутый бурями российских революций, гражданских войн и политических репрессий – почувствовал на себе воздействие роста температуры.
Он вызывает резкие погодные изменения – посреди весны вдруг приходят метели и морозы, наносящие жестокие удары по и без того скудной растительности [...]

(By Luke Harding, The Guardian) For 1,000 years the indigenous Nenets people have herded their reindeer along the Yamal peninsula. But their survival in this remote region of north-west Siberia is under serious threat from climate change as Russia’s ancient permafrost melts.
t is one of the world’s last great wildernesses, a 435-mile long peninsula of [...]

By Amie Ferris-Rotman,  67 N LATITUDE, 71 E LONGITUDE, Russia, Oct 6 (Reuters) – The Nenets tribespeople of Russia’s frozen Yamal peninsula have survived the age of the Tsars, the Bolshevik revolution and the chaotic 1990s, but now confront their biggest challenge — under their fur-bundled feet is enough gas to heat the world for [...]

Представители скандинавской страны намерены реализовать международный проект по использованию опыта россиян
В Ямальской тундре состоялся семинар для норвежских оленеводов – саммов и оленеводов полуострова “Ямал” Панаевского совхоза.
На семинаре выступили президент Ассоциации оленеводов России – Дмитрий Хороля и профессор, доктор наук Свейн Матисен, который рассказал об особенностях северного оленеводства Норвегии в сравнении с Ямальским.
В своей речи [...]

(Source: BarentsObserver) Russian energy major Gazprom will postpone the launch of the Bovanenkovo field in Yamal until 2012, a high-ranking company representative confirmed today.

Aleksandr Ananenkov, Deputy Chairman of the company’s Management Committee today said that the launch of the field will be postponed from 2011 as originally planned to 2012. The reason is the company’s [...]

 
Строительство газопровода “Бованенково-Ухта” (заказчик ЗАО “Ямалгазинвест”), начатое в 2008 году на территории Республики Коми, сопровождается грубейшими нарушениями законодательства, и не только экологическими. Такие претензии строителям газопровода выдвигает местная общественность и даже работники предприятия, сообщает БНКоми.

(Source: BarentsObserver) Gazprom’s construction of the 1100 km long pipeline between the Bovanenkovo field in Yamal to Ukhta in the Komi Republic is violating environmental legislation, local environmentalists say.

The critics are joined by several company employees, who say that the pipeline construction is harming the Arctic nature in the area, Regnum reports.
Garbage is dumped in the construction [...]

Yuri Khudi, and Kirill Seretetto during microsurgery on Lyuba, a baby mammoth discovered on the bank of a remote Siberian river in May 2007. Pic© Pierre Stine. 
Over a year ago, the discovery of a baby mammoth, that has since been named Lyuba (after the wife of the herder that first found the remains), in the [...]