World’s largest reindeer population may fall victim to climate change
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When this image was taken in 2003, the reindeer population on Russia’s Taimyr Peninsula numbered more than 800,000, down from 1 million animals in 2000. Now, there are only 600,000 reindeer, scientists say.
Leonid Kolpashchikov