Norway's geography is ideal for hydro power. But clean energy schemes have cut reindeer grazing habitats by up to 40%It's cold. Minus 10, 12 perhaps, and getting dark; the butter-fingers of a rising moon evident on the eastern horizon. Ill-equipped (the forecasts were for minus five), my ears start to hurt, and I pull in my hood. By the time you read this it will be colder still. And there are still no reindeer to be seen.Olav hands me his binoculars and tells me to focus on a hillside about three miles away across the snowy vastness of Norway's Forollhogna National Park, a tract of ancient, ice-scoured mountains and mire, three hours' drive inland from Trondheim. Continue reading...
Green is good for the planet, but it's no go for reindeer
6. prosinece 2015 14:00
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Zdroj: The Guardian