The Nenets Flashcards
(7 cards)
what soil is associated with the Nenets
podzols
what are the Nenet tribe
Siberian reindeer herders, they are subsistence pastoralists
what is the population of the Nenets
41,000
how far do the Nenets migrate
1000 km between summer and winter pastures
what are the Nenets biggest threats
the tundra wolf that kills their reindeer, climate change
what is climate change leading to for the Nenets
the melting of snow and permafrost frost, this snow insulates the moss and lichen that the reindeer feed on. but increasingly due to climate change the top snow is melting into slush, this freezes and turns into ice making it impossible for the reindeer to feed
what is the melting of the permafrost leading to
the decomposition of the peat that stores a large volume of carbon
