Sweden moves to update Sámi reindeer laws in the wake of a landmark land-rights decision
Changes could affect land use on a third of the country, mainly in the north.
Sweden’s government says it will begin looking at ways to revise that country’s 1971 law regulating reindeer husbandry after a supreme court decision this January suggested that Sámi reindeer-herding groups should be granted the sole right to regulate small-game hunting and fishing access in an area that covers a third of the country.
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