Warm winters distress reindeer herders (click title to entry - thank you)
28 February 2010 - 06H54
...But warm winters in recent years have forced herders here in the far northern Kola Peninsula to delay for months the rounding up of their reindeer from the vast tundra -- at great economic cost.
"We've had to move the slaughter forwards from December to February because the lakes haven't frozen over," said Vladimir Filippov, an ethnic Komi herder who heads the farm Tundra, the main employer in this remote village.
These reindeer have lost roughly 20 percent of their weight during the extra months spent in the tundra while herders waited for the ice to thicken enough for the forced migration....
Local Time: 5:44 AM AKDT (GMT -08)
Lat/Lon: 58.8° N 137.0° W
Updated: 4:56 AM AKDT on March 15, 201
Temperature :: 39 Fahrenheit
Conditions :: Scattered Clouds
Windchill :: 37 Fahrenheit
Humidity :: 70%
Dew Point :: 30 Fahrenheit
Wind :: 4 mph from the South
Pressure :: 29.74 inches (Falling)
Visibility :: 10.0 miles
UV :: 0 out of 16
Clouds :: Scattered Clouds 11,000 feet
(Above Ground Level)
Elevation :: 33 feet
