Saving the Gobi Desert and Mongolian steppes from the dzud will also save lives and livelihoods
When the earth freezes in Mongolia, a large part of the economy freezes with it. In this agrarian society where livestock outnumbers humans twenty to one, the winter disaster known as a dzud threat- ens lives and livelihoods for all. And the climate crisis is tightening its icy grip. Typical of Mongolia’s harsh climatic con-…