Minister orders reindeer slaughter
September 25, 2012
Norway’s agriculture minister wants to slaughter nearly 40,000 more reindeer in the country’s most northerly county of Finnmark as quickly as possible. He claims there’s not enough grass for the animals to graze on, and reducing the size of the herds is the best way to save the industry. Trygve Slagsvold Vedum, who’s recently caught [...]
King crab crisis averted
June 28, 2011
It has long been thought that the rapid spread of enormous king crabs in Norwegian waters, viewed as both a delicacy and a plague, would leave the coast barren and beaches dangerous. In a new study from the Norwegian Institute of Marine Research (IMR), researchers say the envisioned crisis has been averted. The first king crabs [...]
Finnmark starts seeing the light
March 8, 2010
After another long, dark winter, the light seems to be returning to Norway’s northernmost county of Finnmark in more ways than one. The vast, Arctic area has long lost population and faced myriad social and economic problems, but now things may finally be turning around. For the first time in nearly a decade, reports newspaper [...]
