RUSSIA. Yakutia. July 2021. Ivan Aleksandrov in traditional Evenk clothes at Yakutia New Year celebrations where he is performing as a singer. He is a former reindeer keeper, belongs to the Evenks, an indigenous peoples of the Russian North. He gave up on reindeer herding and turned to working in culture. He says the weather became unpredictable, making it harder for their reindeers to survive. The reindeers became smaller, a different gras is growing, sometimes the weather is more humid, sometimes there are bad droughts. Before the weather used to be predictable. Sometimes there is a lot of snowfall in April, the snow melts and freezes again in the night, coats the ground with an impenetrable layer of ice, making it impossible for the reindeers to access food with their hooves trough the ice sheet. He says the reindeers became vulnerable to diseases, many died of Necrobacteriosis, an infectious disease, where also cases of human infections have been described. Necrobacteriosis is seasonal annually, manifests itself and spreads mainly in July and August, when the temperature is highest and the active flight of gadflies and blood-sucking insects is noted. "Longer off-season periods, high summer and winter temperatures, melting ice, and forest and tundra fires have a significant impact on the trampling and degradation of reindeer pastures. These effects may lead to massive reindeer losses and changes in the traditional diet of the Indigenous Peoples in the Arctic, which result in increases in the prevalence of respiratory diseases, overweight and hypertension."