Reindeer Blog

A group of businessmen from the Republic of Karelia in April unsuccessful tried to smuggle 800 kg of reindeer horns from Russia to Latvia. The smugglers where caught by customs officers in Pskov Oblast near the border to Latvia. In the truck, the customs officers found 495 units of reindeer horn with a total weight [...]

In a long interview with the newspaper Vedomosti, the  new (ish) Kola Peninsula regional Governor Dmitry Dmitriyenko said that his administration plans to establish 100-200 km wide zones for reindeer herds. This will help raise productivity, the governor argues. Today, reindeer herds migrate over major parts of the peninsula and unlike reindeer husbandry in the [...]

Russian scientists have doubts over whether global warming is here to stay and whether it’s man made. But for the Saami in Russia’s north, the mild winters already pose a threat to their traditional way of life. All around the Arctic, the effects of a temperature rise are visible, and native inhabitants of the tundras in [...]

Браконьерство на Кольском полуострове представляет собой острую проблему для оленеводства. В подтверждение  этого Вашему вниманию представлена статья Татьяны Рязановой, опубликованная 15 апреля 2009 г.  на информационном портале “Мурманский вестник”. – Сегодня охота на дикого оленя у нас в области больше всего похожа на беспредел, – возмущаются оленеводы. – Сколько можно об этом говорить? – первое, [...]