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Yesterday, the Chair of the Senior Arctic Officials KENNETH HØEGH and Senior Arctic Official for the Kingdom of Denmark TORSTEN KJØLBY NIELSEN had a meeting with the ICR director and Secretary General of World Reindeer Herders ANDERS OSKAL while visiting the NOMAD Indigenous FoodLab in Guovdageaidnu.
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Saturday, 13 June, the Sámi Reindeer Herders Association of Norway (NBR/NRL) elected a new leader for the organization. Ole Anders Turi from Kautokeino Flyttsamelag takes over the baton from Inge Even Danielsen.
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Today 31 PhD students from the Calotte Academy are visiting ICR and NOMAD Indigenous FoodLab to share knowledge and experiences with communities, and foster academic and policy-oriented dialogue among members of the research community and a wide range of other northern stakeholders.
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More than 90 pastoralist women from 40 countries representing every inhabited continent gathered in Kathmandu, Nepal, for the historic Global Gathering of Pastoralist Women (GGPW). The event brought together women leaders, knowledge holders, researchers, entrepreneurs, and youth from diverse pastoralist communities to identify shared priorities for a more just, resilient, and peaceful future while strengthening global solidarity among pastoralist women.
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This article examines how Norwegianization and subsequent governance reforms have reshaped Sámi reindeer herders’ understandings of sustainable reindeer husbandry as a nomadic pastoral system operating under non-equilibrium Arctic conditions.
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The article reports on a new study by the International Reindeer Husbandry Centre (ICR) and the Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA), which concludes that the Fiettar reindeer grazing district in Finnmark has already exceeded its tolerance limit for further land encroachment.
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The report was carried out by the Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA) and the International Centre for Reindeer Husbandry (ICR), and is based on a compilation of new research from Sápmi across the Nordic countries as well as broad participation from Sámi stakeholders in Norway.
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Earlier this month our team went to Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, for the Reindeer Herding and Resilience Project steering Committee meeting and the launch of the Traditional Knowledge Documentation Course.
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A recent research article from the University of Oslo highlights an increasingly urgent issue: the tension between climate policies and Indigenous rights in northern Europe.
