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How to face the future - the question thousands of nomads are having to face up to.

The UN estimates that as many as 20,000 pastoralists may relocate to urban areas in the aftermath of the dzud.   And in the same gradual way that the dzud developed - so, say the UN will the process be of relocating. Most likely, they’ll go to where they have family, where they can find land, according to a UN Habitat representative in Mongolia. The challenge now is for the UN to track these movements, but so far without the tracking mechanism in place.       read latest situation................

Mongolians 'broken' by harvest of carcases - a New York Times article puts the disaster in focus.

Mongolian dzud kills millions of domestic animals - a National Geographic article based on a report by  Damian Woodberry of WSPA's disaster response team.

 

For those herders that are left with barely enough animals to live on,  it will still be an uphill task needing ongoing support to maintain their animals and hopefully for them to cling to their precarious way of life. If they had another choice there is little doubt they would take it - but there simply isn't, so donations are still urgently needed, for us to help them in whatever way we can.

A report  from Dundgobi Province states that over 600,000 animals have  perished there. Fodder  eventually reached all areas, but too late for those who had already lost up to 100% of their small family run herds. In one soum alone - Erdenedalai - the Governor reports that many families face poverty having lost too many animals to support even a basic living.
About three-quarters of Dundgobi's herders now live below the poverty line according to a Reuters report. Most families are left with less than 250 animals. At least 335 families lost all their animals.There is little else by way of employment in these rural areas where, even in good times, herding is a precarious lifestyle..................more