Reindeer may get own tunnels

Plans for a new highway over the mountain plateau known as Hardangervidda have sparked calls for tunnels that wild reindeer can use to get over, or under, it.
Norway has the last of Europe's wild tundra reindeer, scattered over 23 different mountainous areas in southern Norway. The total reindeer population is estimated at about 30,000.
The reindeer population continues to be threatened by road building, holiday cabin development, other construction projects and climate change. Warmer weather can lead to another type of vegetation that can crowd out what the reindeer eat.

City fences out reindeer

Residents of Norway's northern city of Hammerfest grew weary of reindeer wandering through their gardens, munching on their flowers and leaving their calling cards. So now a fence is going up around the whole town, but it's both loved and hated.

As many as 500 reindeer are permanent residents of Hammerfest. They wander in from the vast Arctic plateau during the summer grazing season and have also been a popular tourist attraction.

City officials decided to sacrifice the tourist attraction after repeated complaints that the animals were becoming just a little too much at home in town. Even though owners of the reindeer would make efforts to round them up and move them out, the reindeer quickly would roam back to the tempting gardens of city residents.

The reindeer man.

The bizarre mystery of the so-called "reindeer man" widened as a sixth person reported receiving a Polaroid picture of the strange figure.
The Norwegian media has been fascinated by the story after the news broke of a series of deliveries of photographs in the area - of a mystery figure dressed as a reindeer.
"I was reasonably surprised when I saw what was in my mailbox. A person sitting dressed like a reindeer was sitting in the picture. He or she sat in a wooden camping chair reading a book in my garden," said a man who got a picture in his mailbox.
Somebody said it was me, but they was wrong..ha...ha...
"The reindeer man" was a women, an art student.