The Briefing Room
General Category => World News => Topic started by: TomSea on October 10, 2018, 11:08:37 pm
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Can Mongolia's disappearing way of life be saved?
Herders are attempting to stop the degradation of grass upon which their animals depend.
by Henry Wilkins
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia - Since it emerged from Soviet rule in the early nineties, Mongolia’s vast grasslands have fallen into decline.
Under communism and the planned economy, the number of animals that lived on the steppe was tightly controlled. Today, however, under Chapter 52 of Mongolia’s pasture management law, the steppe has been opened to all and there is no limit to the number of animals herders keep.
Overpopulation of livestock and the effects of climate change mean grass on the steppe, which animals eat to survive, is becoming thinner year on year. The nomads who have herded animals on horseback for centuries are finding it harder to keep their animals, the main source of their livelihoods, fed properly.
Read more at: https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/inpictures/mongolian-herders-fighting-save-life-steppes-181010074904898.html (https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/inpictures/mongolian-herders-fighting-save-life-steppes-181010074904898.html)
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Tragedy of the commons. It seems that even the communists understood it.