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Recently published scientific journal Diedut: Arctic Indigenous Peoples Food Systems is one of the results of the RIEVDAN project which was conducted...
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“One of the last remaining nomadic groups of reindeer herders has been tracked down and captured on camera in northern Mongolia. Japanese photographer Madoka Ikegami visited the...
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From April 16 to April 18, 2019, in the Khalarchinskaya tundra, Yakutia, Russia, the II Professional Skill Contest “Arctic Skills-2019” was held among reindeer herders and students...
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According to TASS, the main reasons for the reduction are associated with the death of animals from exhaustion and low survival of reindeer calves.
In 2018, the number of domestic reindeer livestock decreased from 156 thousand to 146.4 thousand due to the late opening of auto winter roads while an abnormally warm winter. This led to a later delivery of animal feed for reindeer, Chairman of the Government of Yakutia Vladimir Solodov told Tass.
As of January 1, 2019, the number of reindeer in all categories of farms in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) is only 146.4 thousand, compering to last year’s 156 thousand.
The main reasons for the reduction of reindeer numbers, according to Solodov, are associated with the death of animals from exhaustion and low survival calves. Thus, in 2018, slightly less than half of all born calves survived (46.7% or 32 thousand) throughout agricultural stocks of the republic.
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In the frames of the International Year of Indigenous Languages declared by the United Nations The Institute for Humanities Research and Indigenous Studies of the North, Russian Academy of Sciences, International Arctic Social Sciences Association (IASSA) and the Association of Indigenous Peoples of the...