Sentences with phrase «nomadic herder»

When I was in Mongolia for World Environment Day, the topic of how the government would protect the traditional nomadic herder lifestyle while also taking advantage of opportunities for rapid economic development, such as mining and wind and solar power, was a huge focus of conversation.

Gankhuyag, a former nomadic herder who now works in Ulaanbaatar as a porter, stands inside his ger on the outskirts of town.

Gankhuyag, 38, abandoned his life as a nomadic herder and moved here a few years ago with his family to work as a porter.

You can keep sheep if you're a nomadic herder, but if you settle down and become a pastoralist, planting grain and fruit trees, etc., it becomes much more difficult to follow a nomadic God... Is there something in here about being ready to be followers, rather than settlers?

According to World Watch Monitor, nomadic herders attacked the village of Kodumun in the predominantly Christian area of Demsa in Adamawa State (above), north - eastern Nigeria, on Tuesday.

The clashes used to be confined to Nigeria's central region, with the mainly Christian Berom farming community in Plateau state engaging in tit - for - tat killings with Muslim nomadic herders.

As Goulden parsed meteorological records and the results of more than 100 interviews he and his Mongolian wife, Tuya, had conducted with nomadic herders in the northern provinces of Hovsgol and Khentii, he paused and apologized to the audience: «I'm sorry to bring all this depressing news to you.»

Though genetic findings are rewriting the story of nomadic herders, their role in the Bronze Age is still somewhat murky.

DNA samples revealed that a group of nomadic herders, the Yamnaya, swept into Europe from the plains of today's Russia and Ukraine sometime between 5000 and 4800 years ago, bringing their culture and, perhaps, the Proto - Indo - European language with them.

Dr. Michael von Fricken explored this association using a multidisciplinary One Health research approach, which focused on the interaction between nomadic herders, the livestock they own, and the tick - borne diseases they are exposed to.

Many types of fermented milk products were also first produced and consumed in Asia, Europe, South America and Africa by nomadic herders.

He's an AMAZING story teller, his Mongolian cashmere company is so cool, but most of all, I love his vision for impacting nomadic herders in Mongolia while also disrupting the entire cashmere industry in a positive way.

December 5, 2016 • The sparsely populated nation of nomadic herders rode China's booming economy by supplying it with coal.

The scenic paths connecting small villages in northeast Turkey have been trod for centuries by nomadic herders.

On the other side of the continent, in the West African Sahel, nomadic herders are at risk of many infectious diseases including epidemic malaria and bacterial meningitis (both deadly to non-immune populations and thus the cause of catastrophic health problems that severely hamper social and economic development in the region).

Or nomadic herders?

For centuries, the typical image of Mongolia has been nomadic herders on horseback living in yurts or gers.

Not exact matches

«Worship» is a primitive paradigm that may work for nomadic goat herders but is repugnant and a perversion in civilized society whether it be hollywood worship, sports team worship, political party worship or deity worship.

It's time to put aside faith in an iron age deity from a bunch of nomadic sheep herders in the middle east as well.

Examples include the claim that air has weight, 26 the existence of valleys27 and vents28 on the bottom of the sea, ocean currents, 29 and the fact that winds blow in circular paths.30 These are remarkable claims that could not have been directly observed by a bunch on nomadic sheep herders.

He celebrates his God, shouting and singing words of exaltation, singing possibly the same songs he had written years earlier as a nomadic sheep herder, where his devotion was worked out in the sweat and stench of his servant situation.

Second, when science say's that the sun will burn out in about 4 billion years they are using data that has been gathered about our sun as well as many other star's to come up with their theory, not an ancient manuscript written by nomadic goat herders.

Following complaints of alleged atrocities being committed by nomadic herdsmen and the destruction of farms in Agogo in the Ashanti Region and parts of the Eastern Region, government re-launched Operation Cow leg which comprised police and military personnel tasked to flush out the herders and their cattle from those areas.

According to him, this will prevent clashes between nomadic livestock herders and crop farmers as well as protect the environment from degradation and pollution caused by open rearing and grazing of livestock.

~ A.D. 1000 The Sami, nomadic Scandinavian reindeer herders who live north of the Arctic Circle, believe auroras were spirits of the dead.

Hoping to solve the problem of conflicts between nomadic pastoralists and other tribes, the Ugandan government is exploring plans to move the cattle herders to agricultural lands.

On July 17, more than 70 million tons of ice broke off from the Aru glacier in the mountains of western Tibet and tumbled into a valley below, taking the lives of nine nomadic yak herders living there.

In the West African outbreak, the spread may have been linked to the movements of nomadic cattle herders.

A team led by anthropologist Joseph Henrich of the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, tested this with members of groups including nomadic African herders, Colombian fishermen, and Missouri wage workers.

These are a nomadic group of cattle herders in southern Kenya.

Through a series of virtual reality experiences, the viewer is invited into the reality of a nomadic family of yak herders.

Mongolian pastoral herders are one of the world's last remaining nomadic cultures.

Korean activists are spearheading efforts to plant trees in Mongolia, hoping to improve both the lives of nomadic desert herders there and the air quality their families are exposed to back home.