reindeer on revontuli

[craggy owl]

i feel like for a bit of realism or something i would like to have reindeer on revontuli on the painted parts of the map yellow for spawning there but red for best and therefore the most spawns

[atomic quartz]

The north does feel really empty other than the birds and occasional moose.

[craggy owl]

thats what im saying

[balmy bramble]

what about unicorns and lions

[hot cosmos]

Lions on Hirschfelden 🤫 (those who know, know it)

[craggy owl]

im just thinking realistic man

[balmy bramble]

but lions

[tribal oxide]

what about Godzilla

[plucky plume]

Reindeer is a protected species in Finland, but what about fallow deer or roe deer instead? Or even wild boar

[atomic quartz]

Not protected.

You can quite literally hunt them lol

I also don’t want to ever see another fallow map after what? 4, 5?

[hot cosmos]

6 months since we got Tahr and now they get backfilled. 6 years since we got the lion so its time we finally get lions on Hirsch and Rev

[plucky plume]

It is a protected specie so you cannot hunt them. https://riista.fi/game/poro/

[glad oxide]

I think it depends on how well the population is doing, and from what I have read about it, there are similarities between Finnish Forest Reindeer and the Hay-Zama Wood Bison herd in Alberta Canada in that very few tags are given and in some years no hunting is allowed at all

I should add that I have heard that less then 20 tags are ever given out for forest reindeer in Finland in a given year due to their limited population

[glad oxide]

Your link only covers semi-domesticated reindeer, but luckily I found this link from the same website: https://riista.fi/game/metsapeura/

[atomic quartz]

That is my understanding of reindeer hunting in Finland, very interesting reintroduction story.

[atomic quartz]

Translated from Finnish to English:

“Other: Wild deer once lived in a large part of the country and were an important game animal. As a result of excessive hunting, it disappeared from Finland for over fifty years at the turn of the 20th century. Small numbers are hunted annually, mainly to prevent damage.”

[plucky plume]

That’s actually a different species. I understand that they are similar, but it’s not what people mean when they say reindeer in Finland. Besides that, the population is very small and only few hunting quotas (around 10-20) are given yearly.

[rotund osprey]

Fr

[atomic quartz]

Yet again, that does not change the fact that legal hunting is indeed conducted no matter how scarce.

[earnest hatch]

We have around 300 fallow deer in this country
Roe deer though, that'd be nice

[plucky plume]

Yes but even so fallow deer population is bigger than “finnish forest reindeer” (metsäpeura), that’s why I mentioned it. But yes roe deer is definitely very common, at least here at Somero

[inner rivet]

Mark V. Peterson hunted a forest reindeer in Finland. Video YouTube : https://youtu.be/EtrUOqmWpbo?si=7Nu_Wg09ZpZyGaSi