Starvation kills 80,000 Arctic reindeer as unusual weather cuts off food supply

http://www.smh.com.au/environment/animals/starvation-kills-80000-arctic-reindeer-as-unusual-weather-cuts-off-food-supply-20161116-gsr29d.html

In August, a lightning blast claimed the lives of more than 300 reindeer in Norway. The month before, an anthrax epidemic – which Russian officials blamed on microbes that thawed after spending decades frozen inside a reindeer corpse – sickened several indigenous people in Siberia and killed a 12-year-old boy. Reindeer died by the hundreds.

In the disease's aftermath, the regional government proposed to cull 250,000 reindeer by Christmas. Rudolph still can't catch a break.