Sami herder claims cull is infringement of indigenous rights,but Oslo says policy is needed to prevent overgrazing of fragile tundra landscape Days before Rudolph and his team set off with Santa’s sleigh on their annual round-the-world sprint, a Norwegian reindeer herder has been ordered to achieve down dozens of their real-life relatives in a controversial cull.
The supreme court in Oslo rejected an appeal by Jovsset Ante Sara, and a small reindeer herder from the indigenous Sami community in the Norwegian Arctic,ruling he must comply with an earlier order to cull 41 of his 116-strong herd.
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Source: guardian.co.uk