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Graphic Changing Taiga: Challenges for Mongolia’s Reindeer Herders

Changing Taiga: Challenges for Mongolia’s Reindeer Herders

Mongolia’s reindeer herders and their taiga homeland are today facing unprecedented challenges from unregulated mining, forest logging, loss of access to natural resources, tourism, and climate change.

Year: 2012

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Biomes and vegetation of Hovsgol aimag

Climate change in Mongolia

Mongolia

Observed and predicted seasonal temperatures in northwest Mongolia

Protected areas of Hovsgol aimag

Reindeer herding camps in the East Taiga A snapshot from 2011

Reindeer husbandry and political changes in Mongolia - A short history

Semi-domesticated reindeer across Eurasia

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