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The grazing crisis in reindeer herding, the corona situation and the work on the Norwegian-Swedish Reindeer Grazing Convention was the theme of the meeting between Minister of Agriculture and Food Olaug Vervik Bollestad (KrF) and Sami Parliament President Aili Keskitalo.
On Friday 13 March, the Directorate of Agriculture paid out NOK 2 million from the emergency preparedness fund. The funds go to the Middle and Eastern Zone in Western Finnmark reindeer grazing area. 160 000 animals within the Sami reindeer grazing area have now been affected by the grazing crisis.
Many mushers have seen high numbers of moose while training, spurring them to pack guns during this year’s 1,000-mile race to Nome.
According to Haines Borough Police Chief Heath Scott, the department received 182 bear-related calls in 2019. That is more than double the number of bear-related calls they received the previous year. Said Fish and Game bear biologist Anthony Crupi, “With really low returns of pink salmon and coho salmon this year, bears are really searching out any opportunities they can find” .
Reduced to just 6,500 animals in 1995, the Fortymile caribou herd in Yukon has seen a remarkable comeback, now numbering around 84,000.
BRUNY ISLAND, TASMANIA (WASHINGTON POST) - Even before the ocean caught fever and reached temperatures no one had ever seen, Australia's ancient giant kelp was cooked.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
North American coyotes don’t live in South America, but new research suggests that could change, should deforestation in Central America continue.
Hunters say grizzly bears are showing up in growing numbers on islands of the Beaufort Sea.
As Australia experiences record-breaking drought and bushfires, koala populations have dwindled along with their habitat, leaving them “functionally extinct.”
The Mulchatna herd was not at the peak numbers it once had decades ago. Over-hunting, migration changes and wolf predation could be leading causes of decline in herd.
The islands were first noticed by a student engineer who had observed the unidentified land masses in satellite images
More porcupine sightings have been reported in Yellowknife this year compared to previous years. What should you do if your furry friend meets a porcupine?
Caribou hunters in Game Management Unit 13 will have an additional 10 days of hunting this month.
The top of the world saw record-beating average temperatures flashing through all three summer months.
Climate change is making life difficult for the indigenous people - and wildlife - of the Sami region.
Out of the eight species of bats in the Northwest Territories, residents are most likely to see the little brown bats.
Somewhere between the size of a sewer rat and a beaver, with a tail resembling that of an opossum and protruding, nacho cheese-colored teeth, the nutria is both impressively unattractive and highly destructive.
Earth’s natural cycles can’t account for the recent warming seen over the past 100 years, new research suggests.
Alaska hunters will discover a new page in the 2019-2020 hunting regulations which describes mule deer and white-tailed deer, two historically non-native species that are now moving into Alaska.
Nick Major, a martial arts instructor, died Saturday after he had a random brush with a bat on Vancouver Island in May.
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