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The herding area stretches from the border with Finland to the province of Dalarna, covering an area of 226 000 km 2 about 55% of Sweden. [8] Reindeer herding employs about 2,500 people in Sweden and the number of reindeer owners is a total of about 4,600 people. According to figures from 2005, 77% of the country's reindeer are owned by men. [9]
Today in Norway and Sweden, reindeer husbandry is legally protected as an exclusive Sámi livelihood, such that only persons of Sámi descent with a linkage to a reindeer herding family can own, and hence make a living off, reindeer. Presently, about 2,800 people are engaged in reindeer herding in Norway. [10]
The Sámi people (also Saami) are a Native people of northern Europe inhabiting Sápmi, which today encompasses northern parts of Sweden, Norway, Finland, and the Kola Peninsula of Russia. The traditional Sámi lifestyle, dominated by hunting, fishing and trading, was preserved until the Late Middle Ages , when the modern structures of the ...
Reindeer are an important part of many northern indigenous cultures, including the Sami people of northern Sweden and the Inuit of North America, which traditionally use them for their milk, fur ...
Yellow-necked mouse, Apodemus flavicollis; Wood mouse, Apodemus sylvaticus; North-western water vole, Arvicola terrestris; Grey red-backed vole, Clethrionomys rufocanus; Bank vole, Clethrionomys glareolus
Norway. Sweden. Russia. Alaska. Reindeer live in regions with harsh topography and long, cold winters. ... and a herd of muskoxen share the same territory at Alaska’s Large Animal Research ...
When most people think of reindeer, they think of Santa Claus, Christmas and Rudolph, but the truth about these animals is much drearier. Placed on the International Union for Conservations of ...
Reindeer. There are 84 mammal species (with two uncertain) recorded in Sweden according to the IUCN Red List. Two are endangered, one is vulnerable as well now extinct, and four are near threatened. The following tags are used to highlight each species' conservation status as assessed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature: