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    13 days ago

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    HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — An extreme weather phenomenon known as the dzud has killed more than 7.1 million animals in Mongolia this year, more than a tenth of the country’s entire livestock holdings, endangering herders’ livelihoods and way of life.

    He only kept his sturdier yaks and horses, hoping that that he’d be able to take them to pastures that wouldn’t be as badly affected, said his sister-in-law, Gantuya Batdelger, 33, a graduate school student.

    Many pregnant stock, weakened from the winter, lose their offspring, sometimes because they cannot adequately feed them, said Matilda Dimovska, the UNDP’s resident representative in Mongolia.

    Budgets strained by urgent responses to crises like Ukraine or Gaza are a factor, she said, “But this leaves little room for addressing the devastating effects of dzud in Mongolia.”

    Khandaa Byamba, 37, a camel herder who lives in Dundgobi province in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert said in an online interview that she has learned from her elders and also the hard experience of repeated dzuds.

    The family earlier decided to just herd camels to cope with climate change, drought and deteriorating pastures that have been turning into deserts.


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