Icy conditions in the mountains have caused wild reindeer to descend towards the hut areas to find food. In several places ski areas are now closed to prevent the reindeer from being disturbed.

Drastic measures are needed to restore wild reindeer populations in all of Taymyr, northern Evenkia and western Yakutia. Poaching, climate change and excessive hunting caused colossal population drop.

One of the world's last nomadic reindeer people near Mongolia's border with Russia have captivated people from far and wide.

Following mass deaths of animals, the once powerful cooperative managing the reindeer flocks in the island of Kolguyev shuts down.

More than 300 wild reindeer have been killed by lightning in central Norway.

Animals cannot forage for lichen under the snow crust on the Yamal peninsula.

Sixty-one thousand reindeer starved to death in the northwestern reaches of the Russian tundra in November 2013 in the largest recorded mortality event of its kind.