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As Climate Changes, Sami Herders Need To Feed Reindeer As Rain Creates Ice

"GEADGEBARJAVRI, Norway - Driving slowly on his snowmobile, reindeer herder Nils Mathis Sara spreads animal feed for hundreds of his reindeer gathered in the Finnmark mountain plateau in Arctic Norway - something he wished he did not have to do.

"This is an emergency situation," said the 65-year-old Indigenous Sami herder. "I am not supposed to feed them. They are supposed to feed me."

Normally reindeer find their own food, digging through the snow with their hooves to eat the lichen buried underneath.

But every winter for the past decade Sara has had to buy animal feed to supplement their diet so they can make it through winter, when temperatures can drop to minus 40 degrees Celsius (minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit)."

Gwladys Fouche reports for Reuters April 4, 2024.

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"Norway Power Line Pits Reindeer Herders Against Climate Goals" (Reuters)

Source: Reuters, 04/05/2024