People
Interview: Hansi Länsman, reindeer herder
May 20, 2005
Reindeer herder Hansi Länsman pours coffee into the cup and wonders: „Should we now get rid of these old growth forests during one generation, now that the next generation is starting herding they think that it has always been like this.“ Hansi has seen the whole short history of forestry in the area of Angeli, even though he is just turning 50. The road from Inari to Angeli was built 1975, and right after that the logging started.
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April 25, 2005
Name: Theo
From: Switzerland
Job: Physics Laboratory for Acoustics
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April 24, 2005
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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April 22, 2005
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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April 19, 2005
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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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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April 16, 2005
Name: Tim
From: Helsinki, Finland
Job: Student of acoustics. Computer programmer
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April 15, 2005
Name: Janet
From: UK
Job: Chemical engineer, freight consultant
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Name: Marc
From: Barcelona, Spain
Job: Geographer
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Name:Arthur
From: Groningen, The Netherlands
Job: Student, part-time customer care worker
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April 14, 2005
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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Name: Ulrike
From: Germany
Job: Dietician for diabetic people
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April 11, 2005
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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April 10, 2005
Name:Henry
From: Malå, Swedish part of Sámi homeland
Job: Culture worker
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Name: Henna
From: Finland
Job: Photographer
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April 09, 2005
Name: Maija
From: Finland (Helsinki)
Job: Student in humanities - polytechnic civic activities
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April 08, 2005
Name: Marielle
From: The Netherlands
Job: Technician in a laboratorium
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April 06, 2005
Name: Matthias
From: Kiel, northern Germany
Job: Student, but Greenpeace activist for than 8 years
Age: 28
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April 05, 2005
Name: Christian
From: Switzerland
Job: Agronomist
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April 03, 2005
Name: Monika
From: Flensburg, Germany
Job: Web editor
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April 02, 2005
Name: Carla
From: Salerno, Italy
Job: Production Manager
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March 31, 2005
Name: Randy
Age: 30
From: Norway
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March 30, 2005
Name: Niila
Age: 31
From: Helsinki
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March 29, 2005
Name: Matti
From: Finland
Job: Campaigner
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An interview with Nellim-based reindeer herder Kalevi Paadar:
Reindeer herders of the remote village of Nellim still herd reindeer with traditional methods, using natural wilderness pastures of the area. In other parts of their co-operative, reindeer herding has partly shifted away from grazing on natural pastures due to extensive logging, and the reindeers are fed in the wild.
Continue reading "Interview: The reindeer flees from the logging"
March 23, 2005
Name: Sara
Age: 25
From: Helsinki
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March 21, 2005
Name: Joe
From: Belgium
Job: Activist
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March 20, 2005
Name: Niko
Age: 25
From: Finland
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March 18, 2005
Name: Jetske
From: Holland
Job: Civil Servant
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March 17, 2005
Aslak Jomppanen has been grazing his reindeer in the forests of Paadarskaidi for 30 years, just like his father's reindeer before him. Aslak started to herd reindeer abck in 1975, when the infamously bad years for reindeer herding were left behind.
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March 16, 2005
Name: Emilie
From: Marseilles, France
Job: Activist
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March 14, 2005
Name: Achim
From: Germany, Region Nationalpark Kellerwald-Edersee
Job: Bookwriter
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March 13, 2005
Name: Anisha
From: Hamburg, Germany
Job: Web Editor
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March 10, 2005
Name: Dave
From: Ireland
Job: Web editor
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Name: Iréne
From: Sweden/Finland
Job: Web Editor
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Name: Hembo Pagi
From: Estonia
Job: Quality Engineer
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March 09, 2005
Name: Martijn Nije
From: Holland
Job: Student (almost) and working at a child nursery
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March 08, 2005
Sini Harkki, FANC (Finnish Association for Nature Conservation )talks to Pilvi Aikio and Jorma Länsman about making a living as reindeer herders...
The family of Pilvi Aikio, Jorma Länsman and their two children make a living from reindeer herding. This choice of profession has always been clear to them - but since their childhood, reindeer herding has changed in many ways.
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Name: Oliver Salge
From: Germany
Job: Greenpeace forest campaigner
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March 06, 2005
Name: Satu
From: Residing in Turku, Finland
Job: Student
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Name: Richard Carlson
From: New Zealand
Job: Logistics co-ordinator
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March 01, 2005
Over the coming weeks, we will be be introducing both Sámi reindeer herders and Greenpeace activists who are living in the forests of Lapland. Stay tuned!
