15th Nordic Conference on Reindeer and Reindeer Husbandry Research
NOR’s 15th conference will be held in Sweden in January 2009
In due time (early autumn 2008) you will find invitation, programme and information about the registration in NOR’s web pages www.rangifer.no.
Participants are invited to give oral or poster presentations on all relevant topics concerning reindeer and reindeer husbandry. Talks will be in English or Scandinavian (Swedish or Norwegian). Posters will be in English.
There will be several main sessions:
- Climate in general and more specifically, harsh winters
- Predators and reindeer husbandry
- Infrastructure disturbance and habitat loss, more specifically wind power, mines, hunting and tourism
- Forestry, more specifically about relations between forestry and reindeer husbandry
- More general about conflict solution
- Poster session
Contactpersons from the national organizers and NOR are:
Birgitta Åhman – Docent, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)
(birgitta.ahman@rene.slu.se)
Öje Danell – Professor, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)
(oje.danell@rene.slu.se)
Rolf Egil Haugerud – Secretary-general NOR
(nor.rangifer@sami.uit.no)
This announcement were also published in Rangifer, Vol. 28, Issue 1 (2008).
