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Students from Saami University of Applied Science and Saami High School and reindeer herding School in Kautokeino made their own break out session in Arctic Circle: TRAINING OF ARCTIC INDIGENOUS YOUTH FOR ARCTIC CHANGE 2019 by UArctic EÁLAT Institute & University of the Arctic Institute for Circumpolar Reindeer Husbandry in Cooperation with Nomadic Herders and Rievdan.
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Council meeting of the Association of World Reindeer Herders (WRH) started in the city of Surgut in the Khanty-Mansiisk Autonomous Okrug in Russia today, October 1. The meeting gathered reindeer herders from 21 reindeer herding regions - 17 regions from Russia and 5 regions outside Russia - Nowray, Sweden, Greenland, Finland and Mongolia, altogether about 40 participants.
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In 2009 the Girjas Sámi Village and Swedish Sámi National Union (SSR) went to court against the Swedish State to try who has the right to manage small-game hunting and fishing on the reindeer pastures of Girjas Sámi Village in the mountains...
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A cattle census made at the end of 2018 shows that the number of reindeer population of Mongolia increased to 2396. In particular, reindeer herder families in the taiga area of Mongolia whose lives depend on their reindeers...
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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...
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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...
