Svalbard Reindeer, Rangifer tarandus platyrhynchus in Ny-Alesund, Svalbard. There's about 10,000 Svalbard reindeer, a small subspecies of mainland European reindeer, and are endemic to Svalbard. They are not domesticated, and are not owned by anyone.
Photographed during the Greenpeace Arctic Under Pressure expedition 2010. www.greenpeace.org/arctic2010
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