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Keywords
Boreal forests
Cattle
Children
Day
Forests (campaign title)
Girls
Indigenous People
KWCI (GPI)
One person
Outdoors
Pre-adolescent children (10-13)
Reindeer
Sami
Young animals
Young Sami Girl
Young Sami girl with eartagged Reindeer fawn, Inari, Finland. Newborn fawns are tagged with their owners earmark in the summer months all age groups join in the Reindeer round up. Free grazing is the special feature of the Sami herding culture the Reindeers live and feed in their natural environment if this environment were to disappear then so would the Sami culture and the Reindeer's natural habitat. Meanwhile the Finnish state owned logging company Metsälitilus continues to deplete the traditional reindeer grazing areas. Some Reindeer herders have filed a lawsuit against the Finnish state with the UN human rights committee. The so called Angeli case is still pending in the UN.
Restrictions
No Fundraising
Unique identifier:
GP0113C
Type:
Image
Shoot date:
01/07/2004
Locations:
Finland
,
Inari
,
Scandinavia
Credit line:
© Ojutkangas Kalervo / Greenpeace
Ranking:
★★★★ (E)
Containers
Shoot:
Documentation on Sami People and Forests in Finland
Free grazing is the special feature of the Sami herding culture. The reindeers live and feed in their natural environment, if this environment were to disappear then so would the Sami culture and the reindeer's natural habitat. Meanwhile the Finnish state owned logging company Metsälitilus continues to deplete the traditional reindeer grazing areas. Some reindeer herders have filed a lawsuit against the Finnish state with the UN human rights committee.
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