PRO/AH> Anthrax – Russia (14): (YN) reindeer, complex ecology

Anthrax — Russia
I am a geographer and ecologist with 25 years of experience of studying Yamal tundra pastures and more than 2 decades of experience with reindeer pastures in Finnish Lapland. I can say with certainty that for Yamal to switch from its open nomadic reindeer grazing to one resembling the fenced-in pastures of Finland would be to simply replace one set of problems with another.
The ‘overgrazing’ narrative in Finland is almost as old as the one in Yamal. In Sweden and Norway, semi-domesticated