India, Dec. 11 -- The Sami people in Sweden's Sapmi region face threats to their traditional reindeer herding lifestyle due to a new mining permit.

The expansion of industries like mining, forestry, and hydropower disrupts grazing lands and migration routes, endangering their cultural survival.

Despite promises of local development, the benefits of mining remain minimal for the Indigenous communities.

"There is so much intrusion from all sides and corners," a Sami reindeer herder tells me, reacting to a government decision to grant a mining permit in Gallok in the Sapmi region in Sweden's far north.

Sapmi is the communal land of the Indigenous Sami people. Their land ranges through northern parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia....