Poaching, climate change and excessive hunting caused colossal population drop.

Pictures prove the gruesome fate of reindeer 'to meet demands for traditional medicines in China and South Korea'.

Animals cannot forage for lichen under the snow crust on the Yamal peninsula.

A ten year old boy was ambushed by wild animals close to Lake Yessey in Krasnoyarsk region.

Up to 30 shot dead after winning traditional spring reindeer races in remote Tiksi.

Scientists find how the animals produce ethanol in winter as an anti-freeze giving them the survival spirit.

The government of the Sakha republic in Siberia has allocated extra cash to slaughtering wolves threatening remote reindeer villages.

As Western children salute Santa's Rudolph, here in the Sakha Republic the antlered animals are in peril from ravenous predators.