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Populations of wild reindeer are still found in Norway, Finland, Siberia, Greenland, Alaska, and Canada. The George River reindeer herd in the tundra of Quebec and Labrador in eastern Canada, once numbered world's largest 8–900,000 animals, stands December 2011 at 74,000 – a drop of up to 92% because of Iron-ore mining , flooding for ...
There are only two genetically pure populations of wild reindeer in Northern Europe: wild mountain reindeer (R. t. tarandus) that live in central Norway, with a population in 2007 of between 6,000 and 8,400 animals; [229] and wild Finnish forest reindeer (R. t. fennicus) that live in central and eastern Finland and in Russian Karelia, with a ...
Currently, wild mountain reindeer can only be found in western Scandinavia, with the biggest populations residing in central and southern Norway. The total population in Norway is between 70,000 and 80,000, with the largest numbers found in Sør-Trøndelag, Nord-Trøndelag and northern Hedmark. A smaller population, 6,000 to 7,000, is found in ...
Caribou are found in North America and are native to Alaska. They are wild animals that travel in herds throughout Alaska and Canada. To find enough food, they have to keep moving. Large herds ...
Reindeer antlers can be fashioned into all kinds of tools, including knife handles, shovels, and drying racks. Each part of the antler seems to have its own particular use in some cultures.
Vienna Convention wild animal crossing (yellow diamond, LHT version) New Zealand cows ahead sign New Zealand sheep ahead sign U.S. sheep area sign. These signs warn of animals that may stray onto the road. They can be either wild (as with deer or moose) or farm animals (as with cows or ducks).
The barren-ground caribou (Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus; but subject to a recent taxonomic revision) is a subspecies of the reindeer (or the caribou in North America) that is found in the Canadian territories of Nunavut and the Northwest Territories, in northern Alaska and in south-western Greenland.
Nearly 200 reindeer were found starved to death in Norway's archipelago of Svalbard, and scientists are blaming climate change.