Over a year after a devastating winter wiped out virtually his entire sheep flock, herder Zandan Lkhamsuren is still ...

Dramatic increases in livestock, more frequent droughts, shifts in the socioeconomic status of herding livelihoods, and land degradation caused by the expansion of mining are threatening the ...

On the horizon, a dot of colour appears: a solitary figure astride a horse, cloaked in a brightly patterned Mongolian robe, the steppe stretching out around him. The image is Mongolian lore ...

Across Mongolia, more than seven million animals were killed, over a tenth of the country's total. "Our livestock used to cover all of our expenses, and we used to live very nicely," Zandan told AFP ...