“Hard mode for grazing in Norrbotten”
“Half of the Swedish reindeer have problems with grazing after the recent weather change, reports Swedish Radio P4 Norrbotten.”
“Several days of thaw which is then followed by the string of cold weather has made the land hard making it difficult for reindeer to find food.”
“We have now in the morning, saw a moose on the sherman, so it is hard in the ground,” says Soren Långberg, rennäringskonsulent at the sami parliament, to the radio.”
“17 of 32 villages in Norrbotten, sweden has applied for assistance, and even two villages in the north.”
“– For the individual renägaren it is serious, then it is a great economic strain, ” says Långberg.”
