April 28, 2005

Taking a Break!

The Forest Rescue Station weblog will be taking a break for a few weeks. Hope to see you all here again soon!

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April 26, 2005

Desiderata - A Letter from the Forest Rescue Station

[Written by Rosso at the Forest Rescue Station, Nellim, Finland, 23rd April 2005]

Here I am, finally, writing a few lines that I wish from the depth of my heart to dedicate to all the little vulnerable beautiful warriors, the amazing characters that have filled my heart and soul with their presence, all those that have shared with me this extreme experience, these two last weeks that no one of us will never be able to forget even if wanted to. We got, against our wishes and expectations, involved in this unbelievable 'battle' near Nellim, resisting with a smiling (if tired) face to the most systematic act of intimidation we ever had to face before in our life.

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April 25, 2005

Last Night at the Camp: Where Did They All Go?

An eventful Sunday evening! Early on, we had been stuffing ourselves with reindeer soup at a feast laid on for us by local reindeer herders. Petteri, Anisha, Timo and I left early, arrived at the Forest Rescue Station around 8pm, where Harry, one of the many Mattis, Jean-Jaques and Ric has already lifted the equipment container on the truck. Three guys from the "Anti-Terror Info Centre" were there, and it was obvious that they had been drinking quite a bit. They were also demanding that we give them some of our stuff.

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Meet Theo: Activist From Switzerland

Name: Theo

From: Switzerland

Job: Physics Laboratory for Acoustics

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Stealing Signs and Twisting Arms

Sunday evening - we're packing up the equipment container. A member of the so-called "Anti-Terror Info Center" steals a package of 25 demarcation signs (the ones we're putting on trees, to demarcate forests important to reindeer herding). Petteri tries to talk him out of it, he is pushed away. Dave is videoing the event. Another one of the "Anti-Terror" guys swings a demarcation sign at his face. When he raises his hand to block the blow, his arm is grabbed and twisted behind him. He manages to get free, as Ric comes to his aid, relieving the guy of the demarcation sign, before getting also getting mauled.

See the videos...

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April 24, 2005

From Loppi to Lappi: A Visit to The Educational center of the Sámi Area

A few days ago, students from the Educational Centre for the Sámi Area invited us to visit. Situated just outside Inari, towards Lemmenjoki, the state-owned centre is primarily for the education of people from the Sámi Area, to preserve and to develop Sámi culture and nature/based production, and to produce educational material in the Sámi language. We were guided by Irina, who comes from Loppi in Southern Finland. She told us that when she came to the school in Inari a couple of years ago, more than half of the students came from outside Lapland, but during the past couple of years the newly-introduced multimedia educational programs have brought many more students from Lapland. The past years the school has also intensified co-operation with other Northern people, which has brought exchange students to Inari especially from Russia, Sweden, Norway and Canada.

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Breaking News: We're Not Going Anywhere!

Interesting news on YLE Sámi TV earlier - Seppo Huovinen, Metsaähallitus' union representative said that he was glad that we're leaving. He reckoned it was because we had lost 'belief in our cause', and had got nervous because of our lack of support from local people. He even said that they would cover the costs of our flights home! Sadly enough, Seppo, many of us aren't leaving Inari, and those of us who are, well - Greenpeace has a policy on this issue:

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April 23, 2005

Movie: Snowscooter Danger

Snowscooter drivers try to knock down and pin our activists against cars...

Snowscooter Danger I (500KB Real Media File)
Snowscooter Danger I (1MB Windows Media File)

Snowscooter Danger II (500KB Real Media File)
Snowscooter Danger II(1MB Windows Media File)

Posted by Dave at 07:31 PM

Movie: Eardrum Attack

A masked man attempts to deafen Petteri, Finnish activist and coordinator.

Eardrum Attack (462KB Real Media File)
Eardrum Attack (700KB Windows Media File)

(Other formats to follow)

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April 22, 2005

Terror Tactics in Finnish Forests

The stillness of the night is broken by the sound of air raid sirens, rock music and chainsaws. Men in balaclavas and combat gear prowl around, looking in windows, blowing horns in the ears of anyone they can get close to. At midnight, dangerous machinery is driven close to where people are trying to sleep, and trees are felled and burned. Foul smelling liquids and chicken faeces are daubed on doors and walls. Crosses are burned and waved, hangman's nooses left hanging from trees. Snowscooters are driven by high speed - endangering anyone who might get in the way. Death threats are the order of the day.

Welcome to Finland, April 2005 - an EU country that likes to pride itself on both its environmental and human rights credentials. And these are the tactics carried out by members of the so-called "Anti-Terror Info Center", set up by employees of, and with the permission of the state-owned forestry company, Metsällitus. The people organising the "Anti-Terror" camp use Metsähallitus clothing and Metsähallitus mobile phone numbers. Their plan is to drive Greenpeace activists out of the Forest Rescue Station. Night after night, since April 7th, in the woods of Nellim, Lapland, our activists have been subjected to systematic - but also chaotic - intimidation and violence intended to break their spirit, and deprive them of sleep.

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All Change: Press Conference This Morning

This morning's press conference at the Kultahovi Hotel was a joint operation between ourselves and the Saami Council, which was represented by Kati Eriksen, Vice Chairperson. This was an important day - The Saami Council has issued a press release on the whole situation here, as a pledge of solidarity from other Saami regions in Sweden, Norway and Russia.

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Posted by Dave at 10:04 PM

Saami Council calls for Sámi coalition

Here's today's press release from the Saami Council on the situation here in Inari...

Press release, 22.4.2005

Saami Council calls for Sámi coalition

At the Saami Council meeting at Karesuvanto at end of March, the logging dispute in Inari was discussed and a decision was made to support the Inari reindeer Sámis in the bizarre situation caused by the logging work of Metsähallitus.

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Meet Oli: Activist from Germany

Name: Oli

Age: 27

From: Germany, Stuttgart, (grew up in the region of the Kellerwald-Edersee national park)

Job: Engineer for environmental planning, also specialised in sustainable tourism management, protection areas (e.g. national parks) and environmental politics

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Posted by Dave at 10:31 AM

April 21, 2005

UN Human Rights Committee Update: Land dispute in the Sámi homeland still not resolved

Right, so here's the update on the UN Human Rights Committee issue...

Yesterday, the Metsähallitus and the Finnish ministry for foreign affairs made an announcement concerning the UN Human Rights Committee's decision to reject a complaint, filed by two Sámi reindeer herders from the Muotkatunturi cooperative in Angeli, Inari, in 2001 because of Metsähallitus logging of forests in the area.

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Posted by Dave at 10:55 PM

Movies: Burning Crosses And Other Strange Things (updated)

We're currently having night-vision video footage from the Forest Rescue Camp processed - stay tuned, this posting will be update in the next couple of days, with new movies. Blair Witch, eat your heart out - this is the Nellim Noise Project!

Check out the current collection...

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April 20, 2005

Video: Action in Helsinki

Footage of the Action in Helsinki yesterday!

Action in Helsinki (10MB Windows Media)

Action in Helsinki (10MB Rea Media)

Action in Helsinki (10MB Quicktime)

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April 19, 2005

Interview: Inka Saara, 20-year-old daughter from a reindeer herding family

The reindeer that belong to Inka Saara Arttijeff graze in the area of the Nellim group of Ivalo reindeer herding cooperative. Inka Saara is at the moment living in Inari and is studying Northern Sámi language and culture in the The Educational Centre of Sámi Area. She has been going along to take care of the family reindeer since she was a baby, just like her sister.

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Posted by Dave at 09:57 PM

Action Over: Activists Arrested!

Six of our activists (4 Finns, 1 Dutch and 1 German) have been arrested - carried from inside the Ministry of Forestry and Agriculture - and away to a police station. However, it seems that the police were quite courteous about the whole thing, despite everything!

Meanwhile, our climbers managed to get down off the building safely - and didn't get arrested. Janet, UK activist and climber, said that the weather was lovely up there, "nice and sunny, but very cold - bitter. We got down without incident, and the police took our names and addresses".

So far, the Ministry for Forestry and Agriculture has yet to comment on our actions...

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Update 15:30. Activists have been fined, and released.

Posted by Dave at 02:43 PM

Helsinki Action

Breaking news: A bunch of our activists are currently hanging off the the building of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF) in Helsinki. At 9am, activists from six countries (Finland, Sweden, The Netherlands, UK, Spain and Germany) delivered a truckload of logging waste all up the main staircase of the offices, while five climbers scaled the building and unfurled a banner that read:

Don’t Finnish the Sámi forests

The activists are still in place!

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Interview: Keijo, 20-Year-Old Reindeer Herder

Keijo started to work as a full time reindeer herder right after comprehensive school. Now 20, he is working for the fourth year and is this way continuing the tradition of his family. The family has been herding reindeer since the 17th century. Keijo estimates that makes 10-15 generations of reindeer herders before him. Further than that there is no written historical documentation.

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Posted by Dave at 12:15 AM

April 16, 2005

Dangerous Doings From Metsähallitus' "Anti-Terror-Info-Camp"

A few days ago, we mentioned that members of Metsähallitus "Anti-Terror-Info Center" has started using air-raid sirens to keep our activists from sleeping. Their behaviour even extended to waving flaming crucifixes at us in the small hours of the night. Every night a variety of horns, whistles and sirens are blasted, in an effort to keep us awake. A car stereo has been used to play one song over and over again, at a high volume, and every night they bang an old steel oil-drum with sticks or a crowbar.

Last night - the night of Friday-Saturday - it got even worse. A forestry-machine (a combined harvester and log transporter) was driven right into the Forest Rescue Station area, right beside the famous red Greenpeace kota (tent) and the living containers.

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Meet Tim: Activist from Finland

Name: Tim

From: Helsinki, Finland

Job: Student of acoustics. Computer programmer

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At Loggerheads In Lapland

Here's a current article about the Forest Rescue Station in Six Degrees Magazine: At loggerheads in Lapland
"Greenpeace have set up a Forest Rescue Station in Finnish Lapland to stop the logging of forests used as natural pastures by Sámi reindeer herders. This action also highlights outstanding disputes concerning the land rights of the indigenous Sámi in Finland."
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April 15, 2005

Meet Janet: Activist From UK

Name: Janet

From: UK

Job: Chemical engineer, freight consultant

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Meet Marc: Activist From Spain

Name: Marc

From: Barcelona, Spain

Job: Geographer

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Send Us A Message

Would you like to get in touch with all the Greenpeace activists out braving the arctic weather conditions?

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Meet Arthur: Activist From The Netherlands

Name:Arthur

From: Groningen, The Netherlands

Job: Student, part-time customer care worker

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Saami Council completely supports demands of reindeer herders in Inari

Here's a press release from the Saami Council, released just a few days ago. The Saami Council is a voluntary Saami organization (a non–governmental organization), with member organizations in Finland, Russia, Norway and Sweden. More »

Pronouncement (press release) 11.4.2005

Saami Council, common organization of sámi in four states, is deeply concerned about the confrontation between free grazing reindeer herding and forestry in Inari municipality, which under the veil of employment issues in a harsh way aims to put the sámi reindeer herders, who defend their livelihood and traditional culture, in their place. Saami Council is also concerned about the indifference of the Finnish state to listening and understanding the need of sámi to defend their land. Reindeer herders want to protect the land, because the land gives them living.

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Posted by Dave at 08:34 PM

Update from the Author's Tour

Morning broke early on Thursday morning for the authors who braved sleeping outside at the Forest Rescue Station. Ken Finn (UK) and Lydia Root (Dutch) slept directly under the stars and the northern lights. Javier and his wife Theresa (Spain) slept in a bivouac - but more or less outside! They all said the experience was great and were barely disturbed by the noisy activities of the 'Anti Terror Info Centre' campers. In fact, they were quite disappointed to have slept through the air raid siren and the pyrotechnical display of burning wooden crucifixes at 4am.

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April 14, 2005

Lydia Rood, Dutch Author

Lydia Rood, is a Dutch novelist, and writer of children's books. She tells us of her experiences in the forests of Finland...

When I woke up this morning, there was snow on the floor beside me and the book I had been reading last night looked wrinkled. Not surprising, as I had slept in the tepee, or kota, of the hotel with its open rooftop. I took up the book (it was still too early to bother anyone with my presence) and read on where I had left off. The story, by Mikael Niemi, was still great. Yet the paper it was printed on looked like toilet paper.

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Some words from Ken Finn, UK Author

UK Author Ken Finn, author of My Journey With A Remarkable Tree was part of the author tour. He gives us his thoughts on his visit to the Forest Rescue Station.

I am here with a group of Authors from Europe visiting the Greenpeace Forest Rescue Station. Over the last couple of days we've seen a beautiful and ancient forest at risk.

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Posted by Dave at 07:55 PM

Niillas' Great Grandfather's Yoik

Niillas' Great Grandfather's Yoik (.mp3, 1MB)
Recorded at the Forest Rescue Station in Nellim forests, Finland, 11th of April 2005, by Monika Dörhage

Posted by Dave at 05:42 PM

Meet Rossano: Activist (and cook!) from Italy

Meet Saint Rossano - the chef at the Forest Rescue Station - the world's most northerly Italian restaurant, perhaps?

Name: Rossano

From: Italy

Job:
Agronomist, cook, tourism management, sailor, development worker... who knows next.

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Meet Ulrike: Activist From Germany

Name: Ulrike

From: Germany

Job: Dietician for diabetic people

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April 13, 2005

In The Forests With the Authors

Its been a great day today. We've spent all of it out in the beautiful forests of Kessi. The area we visited was an old growth area, critical to the local reindeer herding cooperative, which is set to be logged in the near future.

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Posted by Dave at 07:22 PM

Greenpeace Authors Tour Arrives!

It's been a hectic few days at the Forest Rescue Station - seven writers from around Europe came to visit us! But it was more than a social call, they were here to bear witness to the destruction of ancient forests here in Finland. On board the 'Authors Tour' are Javier Moro from Spain, Niccolo Ammaniti (Italy), Ken Finn (U.K.), Karel Verleyen (Belgium), Aurélie Filipetti (France), Robin Valtiala (Finland) and Lydia Rood (The Netherlands). They're visiting as part of the Greenpeace Book Campaign - which aims to convince the book publishing industry that it needs to stop using paper which comes from the destruction of ancient forest, such as those in Finland, Russia and Canada.

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Nillas' Speech at the Forest Rescue Station

I am very honoured to be invited here by Greenpeace, and I would also like to welcome Greenpeace here to the land of the Sápmi. I think it's very good and important that you guys are here, helping us to try to protect our forests. It's not so easy for the Sápmi people to do the protection by ourselves. We are a small tribe, and we are divided across four different countries.

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April 12, 2005

The Wolf Yoik

It's a Monday evening in Lapland. I'm on my knees, facing north, singing a wolf yoik with 22 other people - Sámi activists and artists, and Greenpeace people from all over Europe. We're inside a modern version of the traditional Sámi kota - like a teepee. This is a classy number, with a stove and chimney, and a is made of interlocking metal tubes, rather than the usual wooden poles. It's the kota of Niillas Somby, his partner Mardoeke and their little daughter, and they have come to the Forest Rescue Station, not only to visit and show support, but to carry out this ceremony.

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Posted by Dave at 05:55 PM

April 11, 2005

Meet Sigurd: Activist from Germany

Name: Sigurd

From: Germany

Job: I'm a lumberjack, but at the moment I don't have a job because I want to travel around and learn more about different things.

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Posted by Dave at 05:32 PM

April 10, 2005

Breaking the Ice

An interesting day. A minor road accident and some dialogue with the loggers camp! This afternoon we had a visitor to the camp - a representative of another Finnish non-governmental organisation, who was coming to visit, and was giving a lift to a couple of our guys. As the came past the logger's camp down the hill, their car's wheels spun on the slushy snow, causing it to slide towards the side of the road, where it tapped into the back of a parked snowscooter, breaking the taillight.

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Posted by Dave at 11:23 PM

Meet Henry: Activist from Sámi Homeland, Sweden

Name:Henry

From: Malå, Swedish part of Sámi homeland

Job: Culture worker

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Posted by Dave at 11:03 PM

Soft Snow

Ij des la tjoajvevuolmuohta. Slahtte l boahtemin valla jådådak la ájn buorre muhtem biejve, ij la ájn tjásjlahpe valla njáhtso. Goassa káffabievla vuojnnuji?

We don't have so much snow anymore - it doesn't reach up to the reindeers' stomachs. It's snowing a little bit - snow mixed with raindrops, but the skis still glide rather well on the snow, on some days at least.

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Posted by Dave at 10:55 PM

Meet Henna: Photographer from Finland

Name: Henna

From: Finland

Job: Photographer

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Posted by Dave at 01:47 PM

April 09, 2005

Suprisingly Normal Day At The Forest Rescue Station

Reporting in from the Forest Rescue Station... where the snow is still pelting down. Despite all the activity down the hill from us, it's been a relatively quiet few days at the camp. People have been getting along with their jobs here - some are off demarcating the reindeer forests, others are working on various things that need to get done around the camp (like digging out our van if it gets stuck!). The odd snowscooter steams by at high speed, and we've had a few friendly visitors dropping by for coffee and chocolate.

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Meet Maija: Activist From Finland

Name: Maija

From: Finland (Helsinki)

Job: Student in humanities - polytechnic civic activities

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Posted by Dave at 08:45 PM

April 08, 2005

Meet Marielle: Activist From The Netherlands

Name: Marielle

From: The Netherlands

Job: Technician in a laboratorium

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Posted by Dave at 09:45 PM

April 07, 2005

Death Threats: Fear and Loathing in Lapland

Welcome to today's Log Blog. Life at the Forest Rescue Station, at its new location in an old-growth reindeer herding forest near the village of Nellim, on the Russian border, has taken a surreal turn.

Our local forest expert, Jarmo, has been receiving death threats! Jarmo got the call yesterday evening - we've passed the details to the police, who are investigating.

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Breaking News: 'Anti-Terror Info Camp' (updated)

News from the Forest Rescue Station - a group of police and employees of Metsähallitus, the state logging company, have arrived.

They've started setting up what they're calling the "Anti-Terror Info Camp" - which seems to be a planned blockade of the Forest Rescue Station and a disruption of today's meeting between the Reindeer Herder's Association, the reindeer herder's cooperatives, and Metsähallitus.

So why do Metsähallitus want to mess up their own meeting? What's really going on here?

Latest word - the police are taking names of activists - but not of the Metsähallitus employees.

More pictures added:

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April 06, 2005

Meet Matthias: Activist from Germany

Name: Matthias

From: Kiel, northern Germany

Job: Student, but Greenpeace activist for than 8 years

Age: 28

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Posted by Dave at 08:08 PM

Seppo Lahtela Thinks We're Terrorists

A Finnish Centre Party MP says Greenpeace is a terrorist organisation! Seppo Lahtela, MP - who seems to have fallen prey to a bad case of hyperbole, says in yesterday's Lapin Kansa that "the State must take decisive and brave actions to get Greenpeace out of state-owned land. Police must ask for help from the Finnish Army and Frontier Guards to remove the heavy containers which are causing damage to the sensitive environment".

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April 05, 2005

Meet Christian: Activist from Switzerland

Name: Christian

From: Switzerland

Job: Agronomist

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Posted by Dave at 08:08 PM

More pictures from Sunday's reindeer racing in Inari

At last! Sorry for the delay on this - with moving the Forest Rescue Station, and the visits from the police, our reindeer racing photographs got a little delayed...

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Posted by Dave at 04:13 PM

Gallery: Forest Rescue Station on the Move

Here's a gallery of photos from the setup of the new camp by photographer Henna Tahvanainen, including photographs of the police visit and local politicians.

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Posted by Dave at 12:37 PM

April 04, 2005

Police Visit The Forest Rescue Station

This morning the police visited the camp, and asked for the names of the people there. This was fine - though some of us need to go to the police tomorrow for further discussions about the camp. Metsähallitus have asked police to investigate whether or not we are committing a crime by having the camp on state land.

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Posted by Dave at 09:11 PM

April 03, 2005

Live From The Reindeer Racing!

Reindeer racing is back on - after the grey sleety rain of yesterday, today's clear blue sky and warm sunshine was most welcome - but so was the frost of last night. The racing surface had hardened up - good ski weather, and perfect for reindeer racing. A bigger crowd had gathered today - all generations were out - socialising and watching the races, where several reindeer racing world records were broken. More people were wearing traditional Sámi clothing today - the crowd was a mass of red and blue. I've noticed that even people who don't wear the traditional clothing, often still opt for blue or red clothes.

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Posted by Dave at 10:47 PM | Comments (2)

Meet Monika: Web Editor from Germany

Name: Monika

From: Flensburg, Germany

Job: Web editor

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Posted by Dave at 10:45 PM

Forest Rescue Station On The Move

The Forest Rescue Station is on the move. We're like snails us - we can put our home on our backs, and hit the road. I'd like think we move a little more swiftly though. The new campsite is currently 'under development' - we'll report back on with more photographs in the current days...

Photo: Greenpeace/Henna Tahvanainen

Posted by Dave at 10:40 PM

April 02, 2005

Reindeer Race!

Over the last week, a course circular course, marked with branches, was marked out on the ice of Lake Inari, just a few hundred metres for our office. Today, Inari was busy with visitors here for the reindeer race - Down at the lake, there were stalls selling lassos and bridles, clothing and food, there was plenty to do before blowing any money on betting...

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Posted by Dave at 09:25 PM | Comments (1)

Meet Carla: Activist from Italy

Name: Carla

From: Salerno, Italy

Job: Production Manager

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