#reindeerherders — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #reindeerherders, aggregated by home.social.
-
So, speaking of #ReindeerHerders and #Reindeer, apparently, Reindeer are the only #Cervid species that is immune to #CWD (#ChronicWastingDisease).
-
So, speaking of #ReindeerHerders and #Reindeer, apparently, Reindeer are the only #Cervid species that is immune to #CWD (#ChronicWastingDisease).
-
So, speaking of #ReindeerHerders and #Reindeer, apparently, Reindeer are the only #Cervid species that is immune to #CWD (#ChronicWastingDisease).
-
So, speaking of #ReindeerHerders and #Reindeer, apparently, Reindeer are the only #Cervid species that is immune to #CWD (#ChronicWastingDisease).
-
So, speaking of #ReindeerHerders and #Reindeer, apparently, Reindeer are the only #Cervid species that is immune to #CWD (#ChronicWastingDisease).
-
#Siberia: Residents stunned after strange new formations appear across remote landscape: 'The landscape has become pockmarked'
by Zachary Ehrmann
Fri, May 16, 2025"Thawing ground in Siberia's remote #YamalPeninsula is warping the landscape — and residents say the changes are becoming impossible to ignore. Strange mounds, sudden sinkholes, and even explosive craters are reshaping the #tundra, alarming locals and researchers alike, per the Malay Mail.
"These changes are tied to a disturbing trend beneath the surface: the rapid thaw of once-frozen ground, known as #permafrost.
What's happening?
"As Siberia warms at nearly four times the global average, vast stretches of permafrost are thawing. When this frozen ground melts, it releases methane gas from ancient organic material once safely locked beneath the surface.
"In the Yamal region, that gas is pushing the earth upward into large mounds that sometimes explode, tearing open the landscape and leaving behind deep craters.
"Innokenty Poselsky, who bought land in Churapcha, noted that he had about 20 mounds pop up but that it wasn't always like that. 'About 40 years ago, there was an airstrip here and the land used to be quite flat. Over the last four decades, the landscape has become pockmarked. It's like that everywhere here,' he told the Malay Mail.
"Local villagers, many of whom rely on the tundra for #reindeer herding, say their homeland has become nearly unrecognizable. One herder told researchers that familiar flatlands have been replaced by unpredictable swells and holes.
Why is the thawing of Siberia's permafrost important?
"Beyond changing the physical landscape, permafrost melt poses major threats to communities and the planet. Thawing ground can damage roads, #pipelines, and homes. #Methane, the gas being released, is over 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide in the short term. That means this process isn't just a local hazard — it's a global #climate risk.
"Thawing permafrost can also accelerate other problems. Warmer, wetter conditions can spread disease, disrupt food systems, and increase the severity of #ExtremeWeather events by adding more heat-trapping polluting gases to the atmosphere.
"While extreme events such as #wildfires and #floods aren't new, scientists agree that a hotter planet — caused by human activity, mainly the burning of #FossilFuels — makes them both more destructive and more frequent."
Source:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/residents-stunned-strange-formations-appear-111505716.html#YamalNenets #ReindeerHerders #ArcticCircle #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #ClimateCatastrophe #PermafrostMelt #MethaneRelease #MethaneEmissions
-
What happens to the world if #forests stop absorbing #carbon? Ask #Finland
#NaturalSinks of forests and #peat were key to Finland’s ambitious target to be #CarbonNeutral by 2035. But now, the land has started emitting more #GreenhouseGases than it stores
"The number of dying trees also increased in recent years as forests are stressed by #drought and high temperatures. In south-east Finland, the number of dying trees has risen rapidly, increasing 788% in just six years between 2017 and 2023, and the amount of standing deadwood – decaying trees – is up by about 900%."
by Patrick Greenfield, Inari, Finland
"Tiina Sanila-Aikio cannot remember a summer this warm. The months of midnight sun around #Inari, in Finnish Lapland, have been hot and dry. Conifer needles on the branch-tips are orange when they should be a deep green. The moss on the forest floor, usually swollen with water, has withered.
"'I have spoken with many old #ReindeerHerders who have never experienced the heat that we’ve had this summer. The sun keeps shining and it never rains,' says Sanila-Aikio, former president of the #FinnishSami parliament.
"The #BorealForests here in the #Sami homeland take so long to grow that even small, stunted trees are often hundreds of years old. It is part of the #Taiga – meaning “land of the little sticks” in Russian – that stretches around the far northern hemisphere through #Siberia, #Scandinavia, #Alaska and #Canada.
"It is these forests that helped underpin the credibility of the most ambitious carbon-neutrality target in the developed world: Finland’s commitment to be #CarbonNeutral by 2035.
"The law, which came into force two years ago, means the country is aiming to reach the target 15 years earlier than many of its EU counterparts.
"In a country of 5.6 million people with nearly 70% covered by forests and peatlands, many assumed the plan would not be a problem.
"For decades, the country’s forests and peatlands had reliably removed more carbon from the atmosphere than they released. But from about 2010, the amount the land absorbed started to decline, slowly at first, then rapidly. By 2018, Finland’s land sink – the phrase scientists use to describe something that absorbs more carbon than it releases – had vanished."
#IndigenousPeople #GlobalWarming #CarbonSinks #DyingTrees #Extinction
-
Norway’s Treatment of Sámi Indigenous People Makes a Mockery of Its Progressive Image
By Martine Aamodt Hess
March 13, 2023
"On March 1, global media outlets reported that #GretaThunberg had been arrested in #Oslo while protesting #WindTurbines. It wasn’t that the #ClimateActivist had suddenly taken a stand against renewable energy. Rather, she had joined forces with #activists standing up for #IndigenousPeople ’s plea to be able to continue practicing their culture in #Fosen, central #Norway. For hundreds of years, this land has been home to #ReindeerHerders — an important tradition, which helps preserve the Sámi’s endangered language. Yet today, the siting in Fosen of wind turbines, which frighten the reindeer, puts its continuation in doubt.
"Some five hundred days ago, #Norway’s supreme court ruled that the turbines are a violation of #IndigenousRights under international conventions. Yet they are still running even now — and indeed, even after the ebbing of the short-lived news attention surrounding Thunberg’s role in the protest. Once again, the Norwegian government has proven that it remains indifferent to Sámi lives.
"'What’s happening in Norway doesn’t surprise me — [there’s] this double standard of working to protect #indigenous groups around the world and presenting itself as this #progressive nation, yet not giving a shit about the indigenous people living within its own borders,' Elle Rávdná Näkkäläjärvi tells me. Between reindeer herding and her studies, the twenty-two-year-old is the leader of the Sámi Parliament’s youth committee and is a board member of the Norwegian Sámi Association youth group. During the recent eight days of protest in Oslo, she stood arm in arm with her Sámi sisters and brothers. “We are used to it but that doesn’t make it any less unjust. It’s about time Norway drops the mask. It’s about time the rest of the world sees Norway for what it really is,' she says.
"From the outside looking in, the Scandinavian country is often seen as a progressive social democracy. But — as Elle’s comments suggest — a story far less told is that of its #colonial past, also striking at indigenous people in Norway itself."
#CulturalGenocide #Assimilation #IndigenousPeople #SamiPeople #SamiResistance #Colonialism #LandBack #IndigenousResistance
-
The #Melkøya project is announced in a year that has seen the sharpest conflicts between #Indigenous #Sámi and the government of #Norway in four decades.
Large-scale protests have been taking place due to the government's failure to act after Supreme Court ruled that a #windturbine plant built on reindeer herding lands at #Fosen was illegal due to violating the #humanrights of local Sámi #reindeerherders.
#Melkøya is set to worsen these conflicts.
https://time.com/6259144/greta-thunberg-norway-protests-climate-activists/
-
World Governments Rattled as Indigenous Expose Atrocities at the United Nations
By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, April 22, 2023
"Governments from around the world are rushing to defend their #HumanRights records as #IndigenousPeoples describe the atrocities during the 22nd session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues."
#NativeAmericans #IndigenousNews #Colonialism #War #OakFlat #Russia #ReindeerHerders #CulturalGenocide #Sami #Shoshone #GreenColonialism #Brazil #NewZealand #Australia #UnitedStates #China #Mongolia #Vietnam #SouthAfrica #FirstNations #Genocide #Indonesia #Colombia
Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/04/world-governments-rattled-as-indigenous.html -
These Nomadic herders have migrated with reindeer for generations.
But traditions are changing – along with the place they call home.
Is There Hope for Reindeer in a Warming Arctic? | Our Frozen Planet | BBC Earth -
These Nomadic herders have migrated with reindeer for generations.
But traditions are changing – along with the place they call home.
Is There Hope for Reindeer in a Warming Arctic? | Our Frozen Planet | BBC Earth