Reindeer herding is when reindeer are herded by people in a limited area. Currently, reindeer are the only semi-domesticated animal which naturally belong to the North. Reindeer herding is conducted in nine countries: Norway, Finland, Sweden, Russia, Greenland, Alaska (the United States), Mongolia, China and Canada. A small herd is also maintained in Scotland's Cairngorms National Park.[1]
Reindeer herding is conducted by individuals within some kind of cooperation, in forms such as families, districts, Sámi and Yakut villages and sovkhozy (collective farms). A person who conducts reindeer herding is called a reindeer herder and approximately 100,000 people[2] are engaged in reindeer herding today around the circumpolar North.
- ^ "History". The Cairngorm Reindeer Herd. 2018. Retrieved 19 February 2018.
- ^ "Мировое оленеводство Люди, Распространение и Вызовы" [World Reindeer Husbandry People, Distribution and Challenges]. reindeerherding.org (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2018-05-29. Retrieved 2018-05-07.