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Topic: reindeer

Reindeer in Svalbard Norway (Photo by Espen Bergersen)

What makes reindeer biology so unique

Matthew Rozsa
Sámi Man Pulling Reindeer on Sleigh Through Snow (Getty Images/Atlantide Phototravel)

Norway to pay Sámi reindeer herders

Elisabeth Rasmussen - Grist
Chef Christopher Haatuft (L) and Gordon Ramsay working on their dishes during the big cook in Bergen, Norway. (National Geographic/Justin Mandel)

Meet Norway's answer to Anthony Bourdain

Joseph Neese
TO GO WITH: Mongolia-environment-rights-animal-lifestyle by Khaliun Bayartsogt This photo taken on September 18, 2015 shows Punsul Ganbat milking a reindeer at dawn in the East Taiga region in Khovsgol province, in northern Mongolia. For thousands of years Mongolia's Dukha ethnic minority - known as Tsaatan in Mongolian - have depended on their reindeer herds to survive the bitter winters, but now their nomadic way of life is threatened by new government restrictions introduced on environmental grounds, they say. AFP PHOTO / Greg BAKER (Photo credit should read GREG BAKER/AFP/Getty Images) (Greg Baker/AFP/Getty Images)

Conservation policies hurting herders

Nancy Langston, Kate Christen - The Conversation
In this picture taken July 13, 2009, reindeers walk across the road in Suomussalmi, Finland. Finnish reindeer herders launch app to cut road kills in northern Arctic where 300,000 reindeer regularly roam freely. ( Vesa Moilanen/ Lehtikuva via AP) FINLAND OUT. NO THIRD PARTY SALES. (AP)

AP Staff
(<a href='url to photographer'>Lorna Roberts</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Reindeer are dying off

Joanna Rothkopf
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