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Turi Proposes UN Village at GRID 20th Anniversary |
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Written by Philip Burgess
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Wednesday, 26 August 2009 17:58 |
 Association of World Reindeer Herders General Secretary, Johan Mathis Turi was a guest speaker at the 20th Anniverary of the UN GRID Arendal office held last weekend in the village of Arendal, southern Norway. GRID-Arendal is an official United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) collaborating centre, supporting informed decision making and awareness-raising through: Environmental information management and assessment, Capacity building services and Outreach and communication tools, methodologies and products. There was a high level celebration of the work of the last two decades with speeches from several national and international dignitaries. Turi was one those selected to speak and he congratulated GRID on their work and suggested that their Arctic work be moved to an Arctic location, suggesting that a UN 'village' be established in the reindeer herding village of Kautokeino, in northern Norway. Visit GRID here and there 20th Anniversary pages here.
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ICR, WRH and EALÁT on Yamal |
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Written by Philip Burgess
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Friday, 10 July 2009 23:15 |
 The Yamal peninsula is the world's largest area of reindeer husbandry and home to Russia's largest gas deposits which are just beginning to be exploited. For millenia, Nenets herders and their reindeer have travelled north and south on their seasonal peninsular migrations. With rising commodity prices, exploitation of the regions large reserves has become a reality and the largest field in question is called Bovanenkovo.
The EALÁT project has two Phd students carrying out their Phd field work this summer in this region. Anna Degteva and Ellen Inga Turi have joined Brigade 8 and 2 respectively and they will be migrating north with herders and their families over the next month. Turi is accompanied by Rosa Laptander, a Nenets, who is acting as Turi's interpreter while Degteva is being accompanied by EALÁT project leader, Svein Mathiesen.
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ICR Meets With Norwegian Minister for Environment |
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Written by Philip Burgess
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Friday, 10 July 2009 02:58 |
 The Norwegian Minister for Environment and International Development, Erik Solheim was touring Northern Norway this week. His visit was designed to have a focus on climate change and among the people he met with was Anders Oskal, Director of the International Center for Reindeer Husbandry in the coastal Sami area of Varangerbotn in an event organised by the Norwegian Sami Parliament.
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ICR on the Yamal Peninsula |
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Written by Philip Burgess
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Thursday, 02 July 2009 13:55 |
 The International Centre for Husbandry (ICR) Director Anders Oskal is currently on the Yamal tundra (in the Yamal Nenets Autonomous Okrug) with key partners from EALÁT, the Association of World Reindeer Herders and the Russian Union of Reindeer Herders. As EALÁT Phd students Ellen Inga Turi and Anna Degteva begin their fieldwork on two different brigades, they were accompanied for their first week by EALÁT project leader, Svein Mathiesen, EALÁT coordinator in Yamal Leonid Khudi, Vice President of the Association of World Reindeer Herders Dmitri Khorolya and others. The team travelled by helicopter to Brigade 2 from Salekhard yesterday. Oskal and the others will return to Salekhard early next week, with Mathisen, Degteva and Turi wrapping up their field work at the end of the month. Pictures to follow.
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Oskal, Magga to Attend IPY Field School |
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Written by Philip Burgess
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Monday, 22 June 2009 21:22 |
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ICR Director Anders Oskal and employee Anna Maria Magga will be attending the IPY International and Interdisciplinary IPY Polar Field School 2009. the Field School is a cooperative efort between IPY Norway, the University of The Arctic, The University Centre in Svalbard and The Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS). The entire School runs from June 15th – July 3rd. Oskal and Magga will be making presentations related to the EALAT Information project - Reindeer Herders Voice. Magga was a participant in the Chukotka seminar.
Since its announcement, there has been a large response to the Field School, and nearly 300 participants will be taking part from all over the world (See story on the IPY Norway site).
A tentative programme has been outlined and you can download it here.
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