Ellinor Guttorm Utsi

Ellinor Guttorm Utsi is the spokesperson for the Čorgaš-reindeer herding community in the northernmost part of Norway. Her family and colleagues are I...morendigenous Sami pastoralist reindeer-herders, already experiencing the consequences of climate change on their livelihood (unstable and changing weather and grazing conditions). Their summer pastures in Norkyn, a peninsula towards the Arctic Ocean, are now threatened by plans of building several different industrial wind-power plants, with hundreds of wind turbines, roads and power lines, that would partly occupy and fragmentize their summer grazing areas. These plans threaten the local Sami reindeer-herding livelihood and food-system, which carries culture and language, and is protected by Human Rights as an Indigenous cultural practice.