The country’s seminomadic herders have used tentlike, portable homes for millennia. Photographer Matt Dutile visited a few to ...

Herders in Mongolia are facing tough decisions as the climate crisis threatens their way of life. Herders make up about a third of the population of Mongolia. As of 2021, 77% of the land in ...

Herders in Mongolia are facing tough decisions as the climate crisis threatens their way of life. Herders make up about a third of the population of Mongolia. As of 2021, 77% of the land in ...

Batkhuyag Sukhbaatar has been herding sheep since the early 1990s in Shiluustei, a district of Zavkhan province in western Mongolia, located 1,200 km west of the capital city, Ulaanbaatar. In his more ...

Mongolian herder Davaadorj Damdinjav's son, Erdembayar, works a flock of goats. (ABC News: West Matteeussen) "When I was young, winter was cold and snowy, and during summer we had enough rain ...

Like many members of Mongolia’s estimated 300,000 nomadic herder households, Bayarduuren makes much of her income collecting and selling cashmere wool from her free-roaming goats. She combs the ...

ULAANBAATAR, Mongolia—Nestled amidst a tapestry of contrasting terrains, from mountains and plains to deserts and forests, Mongolia and its herding population have captured the academic imagination of ...

And wherever the herders settle for the season, Ms. Shurentsetseg has to find them, too, sometimes on horseback, along forest paths in East Taiga. She makes house calls to respond to emergencies ...

Like many members of Mongolia’s estimated 300,000 nomadic herder households, Bayarduuren makes much of her income collecting and selling cashmere wool from her free-roaming goats. She combs the ...

Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia (CNN) — By spring on central Mongolia’s vast grasslands, the bitter winter snows have largely melted, but strong winds and sandstorms can make this one of the harshest ...