Reindeer Husbandry and Agriculture - A Complex Cocktail
The ongoing discussion between reindeer herders and farmers in the Alta region specifically (but elsewhere too) is again in the media. A former state secretary with responsibility for reindeer husbandry
Posted: November 11th, 2008 under Finnmark, Reindeer, conflict.
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Pastures and Rhetoric. Summer on Finnmark’s Coast
(Pic-Philip Burgess). With the coming of summer and the migration of reindeer from Finnmarks’s interior to the coast, the local media has lately been filled with stories about the reinplagen. This translates as ‘reindeer plague’, a disease which sounds deadly, but so far, only reindeer have died as a result. It relates to reindeer grazing in urban and agricultural areas [...]
Posted: June 27th, 2008 under Finnmark, Norway, conflict.
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‘A Debate With Racist Undertones..’
(Pic - Philip Burgess, Reindeer in downtown Hammerfest) A media fury has erupted in Finnmark surrounding comments by a parliamentary representative Olav Gunnar Ballo who claimed that reindeer herders did not have the right to live and that reindeer husbandry was acting as a brake to development and that as a livelihood ‘it was just [...]
Posted: June 18th, 2008 under Norway, Politics, Reindeer.
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