The only company I found here were yak herders, bearded vulture and a host of 8, 000m peaks.
One day, some of these horses were forgotten by their herders, with consequences sadly apparent from the name.
Yet there is no meat-export industry and little interest among herders in selling their animals.
Sami reindeer herders have lived with severe winters due to climate change for over a decade.
UNESCO: On the frontlines of climate change: Sami reindeer herders
Herders need to find ways to save money received then for spending over the next year.
Without ownership, herders have no incentive to protect land from degradation and to invest in land improvements.
The only people to see the massive explosion were the Evenki people, reindeer herders indigenous to Siberia.
Herders rely on their children's labour, so many feel that time spent leafing through books is wasted.
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In one district, 1, 800 young herders have so far been taught basic literacy, Swahili, English and maths.
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At the very least, small-scale and low-tech gemstone-mining could be a fall-back for the country's beleaguered herders.
But the area is visited for several months every year by semi-nomadic Misseriya herders from farther north.
These compromised PCs are sold in groups by the herders for periods of time to the highest bidders.
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After complaints from yak herders, the Bhutanese banned foreign climbers from crawling up the face of their sacred mountains.
In the name of the tsar, they demanded pelts as yasak (tribute) from reindeer herders, steppes nomads and hunter-gatherers.
From desert herders to fashionable young students, almost everyone you meet is on Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp - or all three.
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For decades, they came to work as sheep herders, tending flocks for months at a time in the grassy hills.
Herders, some on foot and some on stocky Icelandic horses, surround the flock, yelling and gesturing to keep the animals in a bunch.
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The most recent clashes began last week when the Orma, a community of semi-nomadic herders, invaded farms belonging to the Pokomo.
I've queried many herders about the feasibility of eight reindeer -- it is possible in the right hands, but not common.
In feudal days, most herders looked after animals belonging either to aristocratic or to monastic masters, while raising livestock for private consumption.
In 2005, a Navy Seal team dropped into Afghanistan encountered goat herders who clearly intended to inform the Taliban of their whereabouts.
The research has contributed to an understanding of the impacts of climate change on Sami reindeer herders and different coping strategies available.
UNESCO: On the frontlines of climate change: Sami reindeer herders
The team discussed the pros and cons of setting the goat herders free and ultimately made the decision to let them go.
When the Soviets took control of Kyrgyzstan in 1918 they impacted the traditional life of nomadic herders by establishing collective farms and interbreeding the horses.
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Once the hideaway of Apache raiders, for the past half century it has been peopled only by wandering miners and goat herders.
Without decent transport on Mongolia's roadless steppe, a ready market for livestock and processed goods was no longer assured, particularly for remote herders.
In many parts of Africa, local farmers, herders and gatherers only have insecure legal rights to the land they see as theirs.
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So is that of Arctic herders, such as the Sami of Russia and Scandinavia, whose reindeer populations are crashing as the tundra thaws.
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