About Reindeer Husbandry - How will climate change affect reindeer herding?
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About Reindeer Husbandry
What is reindeer herding?
What is the difference between reindeer herding and reindeer husbandry?
Who conducts reindeer herding?
How long has reindeer herding existed?
How is reindeer herding organized?
What kind of challenges does reindeer herding face?
Why do most reindeer herders say that they could not think of other way of living?
Is reindeer herding a threatened lifestyle?
Are reindeer threatened?
What biological characteristics specific to the reindeer?
What is a wild reindeer?
How long do reindeer live?
What do reindeers eat?
Why do reindeer gather in herds?
How will climate change affect reindeer herding?
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How will climate change affect reindeer herding? 

As reindeer herding is carried out in the natural environment and is in all ways strongly connected to climatic conditions, changes in the climate will certainly affect reindeer herding. But nobody can yet say with certainty when, how and how much reindeer herding will be affected by climate change. Predicted changes will mean for example shorter and warmer winters. Warming will also bring earlier thawing and later freezing. It is for example still unclear how mountain flora will withstand warming and what kind affect it will have on insects and how they will in turn affect the reindeer. In some reindeer herding areas, summer heatwaves will be a larger threat than warming periods in the winter and vice versa. 
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