Arctic Biodiversity Trends 2010

Species INDICATORS # 01–09

Alexey Nikolayevich Kemlil , a Chukchi reindeer herder from the Turvaurgin community reports that:

“All of the tundra is on the move now. Many forest animals are coming to tundra now. Even the elk have moved to tundra”

Mustonen, T. 2007. Report on the Biodiversity Observations of the Indigenous Communities of the ECORA Model Area Lower Kolyma River, Sakha-Yakutia, Russia. Conference Speech in Snowchange 2007: Traditions of the North, April 2007, Neriungri and Iengra, Sakha-Yakutia, Russia. Available from the Snowchange Cooperative, Finland