Reindeer. Reindeer! Come and shoot them!

Reindeer.

Jonas Vannar, reindeer herder.

Reindeer. Come and shoot them.

This is where the reindeer were

What are the names of Santa's reindeer?

The State party explains that under the Act on Reindeer Husbandry, the northernmost State owned areas are set aside for reindeer herding and shall not be used in ways that impair reindeer husbandry.

Recent years have seen mass starvation among reindeer.

So Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer you know it?

I'll go out and shoot a norwegian reindeer. Satisfied?

At the same time that logging proceeds, reindeer numbers have been reduced because the pastures still available cannot support the previous number of reindeer.

As a reindeer herder you are very dependent on nature

As a reindeer herder you are very dependent on nature.

2.1 The authors are reindeer breeders of Sami ethnic origin.

The Sami culture is closely linked with traditional reindeer husbandry.

According to the State party, the authors own reindeer farms.

Snow scooters have not destroyed this form of nomadic reindeer herding.

(Laughter) So when Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer you know it?

Ten to fifteen reindeer right in front of the fucking cabin!

Together with the Herdsmen apos s committees (cooperative bodies set up to regulate reindeer husbandry in Finland), they represent a substantial part of reindeer herding in Finnish Lapland.

After logging, logging waste prevents reindeer grazing and compacted snow hampers digging.

Despite these conditions, the profitability of reindeer husbandry has not improved, as the companies buying reindeer meat have reduced their prices by up to 30 per cent and have purchased less.

(a) Construction work already causes noise and traffic that has disturbed the reindeer

The high numbers of reindeer kept by the Herdsmen's Committee in their herds and the resulting adverse effects on herding lands, increase the need for additional feeding, thereby harming the reindeer husbandry.

7.9 As to the alleged compatibility of intensive logging and practising intensive reindeer husbandry, the authors note that this statement only applies to the modern forms of reindeer herding using artificial feeding.

Furthermore, the significant increase in the overall reindeer population in Finnish Lapland over the past 20 years is seen as a quot clear indication that logging and reindeer husbandry are quite compatible quot .

3.1 The authors submit that the passage of the Wilderness Act jeopardizes the future of reindeer herding in general and of their livelihood in particular, as reindeer farming is their primary source of income.

The ongoing and increasing logging of fine lichen forests increases the necessity of providing fodder and threatens the economic self sustainability of reindeer husbandry, as husbandry depends on the reindeer being able to sustain themselves.

Jonas Vannar shares his experience as a traditional Saami reindeer herder in the video below.

Subject matter Rights of reindeer herders with respect to logging operations undertaken by the State party

In view of the state of winter herding areas, the present number of reindeer is high.

For a while, I thought the German Luftwaffe had shot him down, reindeer, sleigh and all.

As Sami reindeer husbandry has evolved over time, the link with the natural economy of old Sami tradition has been blurred reindeer husbandry is increasingly practised with help of modern technology, for example, snow scooters and modern slaughterhouses.

In some areas without old forests carrying lichen on their branches, reindeer have been dying from hunger.

The Lapponian herder (Lapinporokoira or Lapp Reindeer dog or Lapsk Vallhund) is a breed of dog from Finland, one of three Lapphund breeds developed from a type of dog used by the Sami people for herding and guarding their reindeer.

7.10 Even after the reductions of the maximum number of reindeer by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry in 1998 1999 and 2000 2001, the maximum number of reindeer allowed is more than three times the numbers allowed in the 1970s.

For the State party, the Ministry's decision on the permitted number of reindeer does not alone constitute any substantiated evidence of the effects of certain individual loggings, but rather of the effects of the high numbers of reindeer kept in herds.

In recent years, because of the lack of natural winter food, the authors have had to rely on artificial reindeer food which requires additional income from sources other than reindeer husbandry, thereby impacting on the profitability of this form of livelihood.

It observes that the authors do not specify that the construction has caused real damage to reindeer husbandry.

Thus, modern reindeer husbandry managed by herdsmen apos s committees leaves little room for individual, self employed, herdsmen.

The Ministry is charged by statute, in determining the maximum number of reindeer, to ensure that the number of reindeer grazing in the Herdsmen's Committee's area in the winter season does not exceed the sustainable productive capacity of the Herdsmen's Committee's winter pastures.

If, on the other hand, the aim is to engage in reindeer husbandry based purely on natural pastures, then loggings even those notified as relatively mild will be of greater significance for reindeer husbandry that is already in difficulties for other reasons .

I have to get my reindeer out and all that stuff and you have to be in bed asleep.

In addition, the Finnish Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, in considering the maximum permissible population of reindeer per herd, acknowledged the importance and availability of winter nutrition for reindeer Lichenes, Alectoria and Deschampsia and that logging has reduced stocks of the former two foods.

7.4 While Finnish Sami have not been able to maintain all traditional methods of reindeer herding, their practice still is a distinct Sami form of reindeer herding, carried out in community with other members of the group and under circumstances prescribed by the natural habitat.