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Adopt a Reindeer with Christmas

Product Code : IREREINDEER

Adopt a Reindeer from the herd of Cairngorm Reindeer Centre in Glenmore, Scotland. Those lovely animals are living naturally and free at the centre and your Christmas purchase will help to continue their carefree and happy lives. Make a wonderful Christmas gift with our Adopt a Reindeer with Christmas package and become the friend of Rudolf!

Adopt a Reindeer with Christmas: Fascinating Facts

The Cairngorm Reindeer Herd were reintroduced from North Sweden by a Swedish reindeer herder, Mikel Utsi. On visiting the Highlands in 1947 he realised that they were full of all the food a reindeer needed such as ground, rock and tree lichens, vegetation little used by the other native animals. He brought some of his Swedish mountain reindeer to Scotland in 1952 as an experiment to show that they could live and breed happily in those surroundings. Since then the herd have enjoyed living a free and natural life in the Cairngorm Mountains ranging on around 6000 acres of hill ground, always staying above the treeline at between 450m and 1250m. All of the reindeer in the herd have names and their carers can recognise them all by sight.