Reindeer Blog

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 [...]