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The number of tourists in Iceland has been going up almost every year and a forecast by Arion bank predicts that the number will be about 750 thousand in 2013, increase over 800 thousand in 2014 and go up to 870 thousand in 2015.
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Last Friday the Emergency Fund for Farmers started compensating farmers whose sheep perished in mountain pastures in an unexpected blizzard which struck North Iceland in early September. They will also receive donations from the public.
Around ISK 40 million (USD 320,000, EUR 241,000) were raised in a national charity initiative launched after the blizzard and farmers will receive ISK 10,000 (USD 80, EUR 60) for each adult sheep they lost from the fund, ruv.is reports.
Þórarinn Ingi Pétursson, chair of the National Association of Sheep Farmers, helped organize the initiative. “Overall, the payments cover a large part of the loss but always when one suffers a loss it can never be fully compensated.”
“When we add these 10,000 to the 11,000 the Emergency Fund pays for the lambs, the compensation is fairly good,” he stated, adding that farmers are gradually regaining their spirits after last autumn’s disaster.
Anything left from the public donations will go to ICE-SAR, the members of which were active in searching for and saving a large number of lost sheep.
The National Association of Sheep Farmers recently donated ISK 3 million (USD 24,000, EUR 18,000) to ICE-SAR from its own fund.
Click here to read more about the blizzard-stricken sheep.
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The 2013 June-July issue of Iceland Review is out. Themed ‘We Are Young’ the magazine celebrates the arrival of summer by interviewing young energetic Icelanders who excel in art, sports, business and politics—and Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson, the youngest PM in the republic’s history and the world’s youngest ruling state leader. Click here to take a look at a selection of the current issue and here to subscribe to the magazine.
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The road to Höfn, a 1,690-person harbor town by the fjord Hornafjörður, is lined with reindeer. Whole herds of the wild horned animals rest peacefully on withered pastures, grace next to sheep and horses and bounce along the road. Soon, Vatnajökull, Europe’s largest glacier and the region’s biggest attraction, comes into view. Looming over Höfn, its outlet glaciers flow down from the mountains on which the bright white icecap rests.
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Sin Fang will celebrate the release of his third album with a release concert in Iðnó on June 12. Flowers was released in February by Morr Music and has been well received by music enthusiasts and critics alike. The concert will be supported by Vök, this year’s winners of the Icelandic Music Experiments.
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