Seasons Greetings to all! Written by Philip Burgess WRH/ICR at the Days of Sakha Republic (Yakutia) in Saint-Petersburg Written by Mikhail Pogodaev In St Petersburg in late November there was a major celebration related to the Days of Sakha Republic (Yakutia), devoted to the 380th anniversary of the commonwealth between Russia and Yakutia. The Association of World Reindeer Herders and the International Centre for Reindeer Husbandry were official partners of these days and organized several workshops and roundtable discussions.

Arctic Resilience Report - Live From Kautokeino 29-31 Oct Written by Philip Burgess The Arctic Council Arctic Resilience Report (ARR) will be broadcase live from Kautokeino/Guvdageaidnu on Monday. The ARR is an Arctic Council project led by Stockholm Environment Institute and the Stockholm Resilience Centre. This ARR workshop is co-hosted with the International Centre for Reindeer Husbandry and also includes collaboration with the Arctic Ecosystem Resilience (AERA) project.

The program for the workshop is exciting and will include several presentations on numerous issues. Amongst lecturers are the renowned Robert Corell, Martin Sommerkorn from the Global Arctic Program of the WWF, Professor Mark Nuttall from the University of Alberta/University of Greenland and several others established speakers including several of the EALAT team. The workshop will also include presentations from PhD students on their work, working sessions and meetings. The Arctic Portal will broadcast live here on our website for two days, on Monday and Tuesday.

Click here to read the program for the workshop!

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Arctic Resiliance website ICR Meets Mongolian President and Reindeer Herders Written by Philip Burgess In Oslo recently there was a landmark meeting between nomadic peoples. The President of Mongolia was in Oslo accompanied by a large delegation that included several reindeer herders. The President and delegation had a number of meetings in the city, including with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Norwegian Chamber of Commerce and with the team from the International Centre for Reindeer Husbandry and the Association of World Reindeer Herders.



The International Centre for Reindeer Husbandry had good reason to meet with the delegation as ICR is a key partner in an innovative project entitled Nomadic Herders which was born in 2010 and is a joint initiative by UNEP/GRID-Arendal, the Association of World Reindeer Herders and the UArctic EALAT Institute at the International Centre for Reindeer Husbandry. The project is also part of the United Nation Environment Programme's (UNEP) work on Ecosystem-based Adaptation and funded by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The project builds on the results and experiences from the International Polar Year EALAT project on climate change adaptation in reindeer husbandry.