Some reindeer have travelled as far as 100km to the south, in search of ice-free lichen they can access under the snow. Herders are having to track them through the forests of northern Finland and ...
Traditionally semi-nomadic reindeer herders, the Sámi people have a deep cultural connection to Arctic nature in Norway and ...
Ingá-Máret Gaup-Juuso lives in a Finnish village near the Norwegian border, among the reindeer herding communities of Sweden and Norway. She’s a Sami – the largest indigenous group of people ...
The report highlighted other conflicts surrounding mine projects in the Swedish village of Ronnbac, and in Kasivarsi, Finland — both of which threatened reindeer herding, it said. Amnesty and the Sami ...