Reindeer Land Rights - Sweden

Sep 1997
Their reindeer are destroying the forests and turning them into tundra desert. As the Saami bring in their herds for calf marking its clear modern technology has allowed them to sustain much larger herds than was traditionally possible. And with these herds comes a heavy environmental price. The Saami claim that the summer pastures are their land, and they have grazing rights over the forest winter pastures. The Swedish government claims it is Crown land and the Saami must respect other land users and the environment. With the stunning landscape of north Sweden as a backdrop, this film investigates the conflict between the Swedes and the Saami whose traditional reindeer herding is under threat.

Produced by ABC Australia
Distributed by Journeyman Pictures

Category:

News & Politics

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• reindeer
• land
• Sweden
• environmental
• price
• Saami
• Journeyman
• Pictures
• news
• documentary
• current affairs
• journeyman
• journeyman pictures

[H4mburgarE]

It's funny but foreign videos makes me feel more proud of my people than swedish films

[ranjithm1985]

Where are the subtitles ? Subtitles please........Why don't you put subtitles? is there any reason behind it?

What is the purpose of this video if nobody understands what did they say?

[InternetRevolution]

I really think that northern Scandinavia belongs to the Saami because they've lived there - as this extract of the film says - since the last ice age and the other scandinavians didn't use to live there because it was simply hard to live there. Suddenly the southern Scandinavians came and built houses and roads which limits their culture of herding reindeers.

[Minisapmelaz]

I really hate theese kind of films. There came a bunts of assholes and started building roads all over Norrland and why can't the saamis follow the rest of the world are you stupid or what?