US EditionEurope's Largest Rare Earth Mine Threatens Sami Culture
Mining plans could fragment traditional grazing lands and disrupt migration routes, risking loss of Sami culture and livelihood as the community faces legal and environmental challenges.
- Sami reindeer herders in northern Sweden face threats to their traditional way of life and migration routes from an expanding iron-ore mine and a proposed rare-earth minerals mine.
- Sweden's state-owned mining company aims to reduce Europe's reliance on China for rare-earth minerals, which are crucial for renewable energy transition, by opening the new mine in the 2030s.
- Climate change is causing further challenges for the Sami, with global warming bringing rain instead of snow during winter in Swedish Lapland, disrupting traditional reindeer husbandry.
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These Aboriginal people fear that reindeer rearing will be sacrificed to economic sovereignty.
·Montreal, Canada
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Sweden's Sami fear for future amid rare earth mining plans
Sweden's indigenous Sami fear they will lose their livelihood and culture if plans go ahead to mine a large rare earths deposit located on their traditional reindeer grazing grounds in the far north.
Europe's largest deposit of rare-earth minerals sits directly in the path of an ancient reindeer migration route 124 miles above the Arctic Circle
Sweden's indigenous Sami people have been herding reindeer through the Per Geijer deposit for thousands of years.
·New York, United States
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Sweden's plans to mine rare-earth minerals could ruin the lives of Indigenous Sami reindeer herders
An expanding iron-ore mine and a deposit of rare-earth minerals are fragmenting the land in northern Sweden and altering ancient reindeer migration routes.
·United States
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