Within a few days of his arrival from Kenya to the western Canadian city of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, wildlife veterinarian Jerry Haigh discovered that caribou and reindeer are one and the same species: wild caribou in North America, reindeer, wild and domestic, and Eurasia.
Reindeer Reflections, with its 62 of the author’s photos, recounts his travels and research in the arctic tundra and northern forests of North America, working among the Sami of Finland, and getting to know the nomadic Tsaatan herders in the foothills of the Sayan mountains of Mongolia. This decades-long journey to uncover how this unique species of deer has been woven into the lives of people scattered across the northern hemisphere examines the changes, mostly collapses, in population numbers of both wild and domestic members of the species, along with the effects of climate change, poaching, and disease, from Alaska to Siberia, as well as the impact of COVID-19 on the lives of the people he met along the way.
- Publisher : Rocky Mountain Books (11 Nov. 2021)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 280 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1771605154
- ISBN-13 : 978-1771605151