Conflict Between Domestic Reindeer and Their Wild Counterparts: A Review of Eurasian and North American Experience

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Klein, David R.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1980
• Subjects: Caribou; Reindeer; Reindeer husbandry; Winter ecology; Alaska; Sibir'; Russian Federation; Sibir’; Arctic; Rangifer tarandus; reindeer husbandry
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65645

Experience in the Soviet Union and Alaska indicates that the major potential conflicts between domestic reindeer and their wild counterparts (both caribou and reindeer are of the same species, Rangifer tarandus) are: (1) Loss of domestic reindeer to wild herds. Although this can be reduced under clo...