Inger Baer-Omma: "It takes so little to disperse a herd"

The disappointment was great in some camps in Örträsk.

The World Cup party they had been looking forward to came to fruition when the now ongoing Swedish rally was forced to move the distances from the village at the last minute.

Vaptens Sami village has been blamed and hatred has since flowed on social media.

"They lack knowledge"

SVT Sápmi meets Vapsten's representatives near the stretch that has been deleted from the WC rally.

Inger Baer Omma has closely followed the difficult decisions made closely in the competition.

It has been difficult because the pressure has been hard on the Sami village to "just solve it".

But everything is based on an ignorance of reindeer husbandry and how it is conducted, she says.

- It is not our land but we have the right to use the pasture this year and then return to above the cultivation limit in May.

Those who make decisions about rallies and other major competitions lack knowledge, she says.

"The rally had dispersed the herd"

Even before the rally moved to Umeå, the reindeer industry was in crisis.

There is a grazing crisis around the country.

From the outside, it has not sounded like everything can be solved with money - but reindeer lichen and hanging lichen can not be conjured up with money, states Inger Baer Omma.

Here, outside Örträsk, we now see the tracks of reindeer grazing calmly a bit up in the forest.

- It's as it should be.

They should eat this year, disturbed as little as possible.

Full snowmobile traffic here, which a competition meant, had dispersed the herd, we do not want to be a part of that.