‘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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World’s Elite Causing Reindeer Herders Psychological Problems
The annual meeting of the Sami Reindeer Herders Association of Norway has started in the southern reindeer husbandry area of Trondelag. The theme of the opening day has been mental health issues for reindeer herders, an issue that is generally overlooked, accoridng to Nils Henrik Sara, NBR leader in a report today in NRK Sami Radio. [...]
Posted: June 14th, 2008 under Norway, loss of pastures, wind power.
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State keen to preserve reindeer operations (Norway)
(from Aftenposten) Reindeer herding in northern Norway is under constant threat from development that’s encroaching on grazing areas. Now state officials say they’ll heed warnings that reindeer operations will die out within 50 years.
“It’s a clear goal of this government to maintain today’s level of reindeer herding,” Ola T Heggem, state secretary in the Ministry [...]
Posted: March 6th, 2008 under Norway, Reindeer Herders.
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“We are being pushed out” - Nils Henrik Sara on Pressures on Reindeer Husbandry
New hydropower projects, windmill parks and the construction of new houses and cabin put increasing pressure on the reindeer herders in Norway. The industry might vanish by year 2050 should the developments continue, a representative of the reindeer herders says.It is not climate changes, nor the high number of reindeers or the increasing motorized traffic [...]
Posted: February 18th, 2008 under Norway, Reindeer, Reindeer Herders, Sapmi.
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