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fromwww.aljazeera.com
3 days ago

Norway's green transition is putting Sami culture at risk

Planned wind turbines on Sami grazing lands threaten reindeer migration, fragile ecosystems, livelihoods, and an Indigenous cultural way of life.
fromFortune
3 months ago

Europe's largest deposit of rare-earth minerals sits directly in the path of an ancient reindeer migration route 124 miles above the Arctic Circle

High atop the Luossavaara Mountain in northern Sweden, Sami reindeer herder Lars-Marcus Kuhmunen mapped out a bleak future for himself and other Indigenous people whose reindeer have roamed this land for thousands of years. An expanding iron-ore mine and a deposit of rare-earth minerals are fragmenting the land and altering ancient reindeer migration routes. But with the Arctic warming four times faster than the rest of the planet, herders say they need more geographic flexibility, not less, to ensure the animals' survival.
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