Chukotka Wild Reindeer Herd Monitoring 2008-2009 CARMA population and geography distribution. Current Distribution of the Chukotka Wild Reindeer Population Grazing and worried wild reindeer herd, Sernaya river, Ust-Belaya tundra

Canada — 1500000 Alaska — 800000 Taimyr— 700000 Sakha (Yakutia) — 350000 Chukotka— 159000

Reindeer in the - Panoramic picture of the Pegtymel' river's rock with Chukotka history carvings - Ancient reindeer hunters' rock carvings - Here was seasonal cross- Sampling according to CARMA methods ing over the river. You can easy imagine ordinary pic- ture for past years: thou- sand reindeers follow to the river, cross it and hunters harvest them in the river. - prevailing topic: hunter being in a small boat strikes a huge figure of the wild reindeer This topic repeated Infestation of wild reindeer Wild reindeer female car- dozen of times in one style skin by subcutaneous gadfly cass, Ust-Belaya river tun- became a canon and proved dra, March 2008 its ceremonial magic mean- ing.

The Dynamics of Domestic and Wild Reindeer Populations of Chukotka

Domestic Reindeer Herd

Estimation of the Central Scientific Re- search Games The first results of cooperation Lab with geneticist

Expert Dr. Marina Kholodova Estimation

Chukchi thanksgiving rite Chukotka reindeer herders’ tradi- tional knowledges, reindeer foot- prints Chukotka wild reindeer monitoring network wild domestic is supported by reindeer herders International Scientific Seminar: “Interactions of the domestic and wild reindeer”.

Wild reindeer in domestic reindeer herd Typical 2-year wild reindeer Poaching is not a fugitive

Seminar was held in the city of Anadyr on March 5-7, 2003;

Among seminar participants were: · Reindeer herders and representatives of the Unions of Reindeer Herders of Chukotka and Russia;

· Representatives of the Kawerak Reindeer Herders Association; AUTHORS (c) Translation Vladimir Etylin, Senior Scientist of the Vladislav Nuvano, Senior Olga Etylina · Scientists from Moscow, Norilsk, Yakutsk, Magadan and Anadyr; Ethnography Lab. Scientist and Head of the Ethnography Lab. Email: Chukotka Branch of North-Eastern Chukotka Branch of North-Eastern Complex Yetylina.Olga · Scientists from Alaska presented their scientific papers; Complex Research Inst., Far-Eastern Research Inst., Far-Eastern Branch of Russian @gmail.com Branch of Russian Academy of Science Academy of Science · Reindeer and caribou specialists from the Federal and Regional agencies. Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]