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[email protected] The indigenous Sami people and reindeer at the Finnmark plateau in Norway’s far north face potentially devastating consequences with the rise in temperature due to global warming. P | 2-3 WREAKING HAVOC 02 COVER STORY MONDAY 24 APRIL 2017 Reindeer at risk from Arctic hot spell Kautokeino Norway’s far north, is experiencing atures and more rain. different types of snow. “Seanas”, for AFP a hot spell — relatively speaking — The change affects grazing con- example, means a kind of grainy wreaking havoc on the ditions for the 146,000 or so snow ideal for reindeer, making it centuries-old Sami way of life. semi-domesticated reindeer in the easy for them to dig out the lichen inter temperatures in “We already feel the effects of region who feed on lichen and moss and moss with their hooves. Norway’s Lapland could global warming here,” says Per under the snow. “When there’s more But it has to be very cold to have Wrise dramatically this Gaup, a colourful reindeer herder snow and it turns hard, the animals that kind of snow. While tempera- century, with potentially devastat- in his 60s out on the job. “I can see die because there’s less to eat, espe- tures in Kautokeino, Norway’s main ing consequences for the region’s that we’re losing more reindeer cially the young ones who are at the reindeer-herding hub, used to regu- reindeer and the indigenous Sami because of climate change.” bottom of the hierarchy,” says Gaup, larly drop to minus 40 degrees people who make their living herd- Here, the continental climate astride his snowmobile with an Celsius (minus 40 degrees Fahren- ing them.