In Mongolia, climate change endangering herders’ livelihoods
Beset by climate change and extreme weather, traditional herders are struggling to get by on the Mongolian steppe.
Traditional herders are struggling to get by on the mongolian steepe. The vast country is being hit particulary by clime change and increasingly exteme weather.Fighting the elements
a mongolian shepherd drives his remaining goats into the stable before sunset. The shepherd lives in Kharkhorin in the central Mongolian province of Ovorkhagai. A little over a year ago, a devastating winter almost destroyed hist entire flock. He is still reeling from the damage caused by Mongolia's increasinly unpredictalb weather.nearly barren landscape
Mongolia is feelong the effects of climate change particularly keenly. Here temparatures are rising three times faster than the global average. The link between global warming and extreme weather evetns, ranging from droughts and floods to heat waves and sudden cold snaps, is well-documented.Deadly weather phenomenon
a dzud, a weather disaster that occours in the stepees of Mongolia and central Asia, is characterized by droughts, followed by a sever snowy winter. This leages livestock unable to graze on the frozen, snow-covered pastures. Many starve to death before the grass regrows in the spring.Stay or leave?
About on in four Mongolians still live as nomads, many using traditional Mongolians tents known as gers. But hundreds of thousands have already moved to the cities, especially to the capital, Ulaanbaatar. Enebold Davaa and his family are also thinking about moving, But he would much rather keep his traditional lifestyle as a shepherd.
