Produced for the ILK dialogue workshop (11-13 January 2016, UNESCO Headquarters, Paris) organized within the framework of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), this film presents extracts from interviews with three reindeer herders from the Sami community of Sirges in Jokkmokk, Sweden. The herders attest to the importance of biological diversity for their herding livelihood and their dependence on the health of the boreal forest ecosystem. They describe the practices that threaten herding along with the remaining stands of old forest, and their conflicts notably with industrial forestry. Expressed in other terms, they analyze the ecosystem services provided by the biodiversity of their subarctic forest milieu, and confirm that any threat to the biodiversity upon which they and their herds depend, is a threat to their way of life.
Mot(s) clés libre(s) : animal, Sweden, reindeer husbandry, ice, boreal forest, industrial forestry, subarctic forest, Europe, Jokkmokk, ethnographic film, breeding, interview, video, biodiversity, ecosystem services, climate change, Sami, indigenous and local knowledge, reindeer, Lapland,

Swedish version with english subtitles : In Sápmi, a vast region of northern Europe also referred to as Lapland, Sami reindeer herders are experts about snow. To reach the ground lichen on which they feed in winter, reindeer need to dig through a snowpack whose properties constantly change throughout the winter period. For this reason, the Sami have developed a ‘snow science’ that not only encompasses, as linguists have often exclaimed, an exceptional diversity of terms to name and classify snow. They have also cultivated an intimate understanding of physico-chemical processes affecting the snowpack. In this film, a Sami herder digs a hole in the snow to analyze and describe how thermal exchanges have transformed the properties of the snow since the beginning of the season. He explains how an ice layer, which formed over the ground surface, disappeared subsequent to a period of warming to once more render the lichen accessible to grazing reindeer. Swedish version with french subtitles : Science de la neige, Nautijaur, Laponie suédoise, 12 novembre 2010 http://www.canal-u.tv/video/smm/science_de_la_neige_nautijaur_laponie_suedoise_12_novembre_2010.21374 Version suédoise : Snöns vetenskap, (version suédoise de "Science de la neige, Nautijaur, Laponie suédoise, 12 novembre 2010") http://www.canal-u.tv/video/smm/snons_vetenskap_version_suedoise_de_science_de_la_neige_nautijaur_laponie_suedoise_12_novembre_2010.21543
Mot(s) clés libre(s) : animal, Lapland, ethnographic film, Europe, Sami, breeding, ice, feeding, reindeer, pasture, indigenous and local knowledge, lichen, snow, ecology, climate change, video, film ethnographique, vidéo, Sweden