Reindeer Herds Disappearing
source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8094000/8094036.stm
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Numbers of Reindeer and caribou numbers are plummeting around the world.
A global review of their numbers has found that populations are declining almost everywhere they live, from Alaska and Canada, to Greenland, Scandinavia and Russia.
The deer is vital to the lives indigenous peoples around the circumpolar north.
Yet it is increasingly difficult for the deer to survive in a world warmed by climate change and altered by industrial development, say scientists. Worldwide, there are seven sub-species which are recognised. Each are genetically, morphologically and behaviourally a little different, though capable of interbreeding with one another.
A global review of their numbers has found that populations are declining almost everywhere they live, from Alaska and Canada, to Greenland, Scandinavia and Russia.
The deer is vital to the lives indigenous peoples around the circumpolar north.
Yet it is increasingly difficult for the deer to survive in a world warmed by climate change and altered by industrial development, say scientists. Worldwide, there are seven sub-species which are recognised. Each are genetically, morphologically and behaviourally a little different, though capable of interbreeding with one another.
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