Norway rebuilds fence to stop reindeers wandering across border into Russia

Due to numerous reindeer fatalities resulting from their entry into Russia, Norway is working on mending a damaged fence on its border.

According to the agriculture agency of Norway, a part of the barrier between Hamborgvatnet and Storskog will be replaced. This barrier is 93 miles long, and the part being replaced is about four miles long.

The project will cost 3. 7 million kroner or £274,000 and will be finished by October 1st.

Rebuilding the fence will be difficult and require a lot of effort because workers will need to stay on the Norwegian side of the border all the time.

If a worker accidentally goes into Russia without the right visa, they would be considered as entering the country illegally.

According to officials, Norway wants to build a new fence to prevent reindeer from going into Russia. This is because 42 reindeer have already gone across the border this year.

Due to these, 40 have been brought back but were killed because people were afraid they might go back to Russia.
The other two people are expected to come back home soon.

Every time a reindeer travels, it becomes expensive because Norway has to pay Russia for the damage caused by the reindeer eating grass from their land.

Someone has said that Oslo should give almost 50,000 kroner (£3,715) for each reindeer that went into the Pasvik Zapovednik natural reserve.

Another document requesting money asks for a large sum of nearly 47 million kroner (around £3. 5 million) to cover the time that animals stayed in the large wildlife area.
The Indigenous Sami people, who have been living in Arctic Europe for about 9,000 years, take care of the reindeer and keep them together.

They usually live in Lapland, which is found in the northern parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia.

In the UK, a pelican that got out of a zoo was seen swimming with swans at a pond that was 30 miles away. However, it got away again before the zookeepers could catch it.