"Green colonialism" could ruin indigenous peoples’ traditional lifestyle, warns Gunn-Britt Retter with the Saami Council as Arctic Minerals this week announced big-value findings of cobalt and tellurium at Bidjovagge, northern Norway.
Conflict potential is rising between Sámi indigenous peoples’
Today one in five Finnish reindeer herders is under 25, with the share of women herders growing.
More young women in Finland's far north are taking up reindeer herding, according to the Reindeer Herders' Association.
Ida Wessman, 28, bought her family's herd of reindeer after her father passed