The nomads are herders and typically own about 1,000 animals—mostly sheep and goats, but cows, horses, dogs, camels, and yaks as well. You could think of them as ranchers who move their ranch ...

CHIFENG, CHINA — It’s no longer about the armed warriors, Genghis Khan and the robed nomads prancing through lush greenery on horseback. In China’s barely populated Inner Mongolian ...

At 603,910 square miles, Mongolia is the 19 th largest nation in the world, but 1.2 of its 2.8 million citizens live in the capital with the rest in far-flung villages or living nomadically like Gaaj.

Photo by Peter Maize It’s not easy to track down a nomad. That’s because they move. Often. They pack up their homes, stash ...

Mongolia's former nomads cling to tent cities. Geoffrey York Africa Bureau Chief. Ulan bator. Published May 21, 2002. This article was published more than 21 years ago.

Just around the corner from the vast concrete square built to honor the heroes of Mongolia’s communist revolution, a very different kind of revolutionary activity is under way. Their heads be… ...

As years of overgrazing increasingly push Mongolian nomads into the territory of their oldest foes — snow leopards and wolves — a group of researchers and herders are trying to reinstate the ...