Steppe observer·Oct 29Mongolia's new railway will have 43 wildlife crossings. herders ask who uses them.The 233-kilometre Tavantolgoi–Gashuunsukhait line is built to carry coal at speed, with underpasses designed for khulan and saiga. The…
Steppe observer·Oct 22Mongolia's herders are being hired to guide the new corridors they once avoidedWith more than 100,000 herder households still on the move, transmission-line and pipeline crews now pay local families for route…
Steppe observer·Oct 18Mongolia's herders lose grazing access as the grid reaches khovdThe Asian Development Bank's $1.2 billion Western Energy Project is stringing 620 kilometres of transmission line across Khovd and Uvs…
Steppe observer·Oct 4Mongolia's herders are fighting a new fence line along the chinese borderA 2019 livestock quarantine rule now runs 4,000 kilometers of wire across Dornogovi and Sukhbaatar provinces, and herders say it cuts their…
Great Rift Review·Sep 24Tanzania's rift valley gas boom reshapes land politics as fault lines widenThree gas projects worth $42 billion are redrawing grazing corridors in a region where plates move 8mm a year and pastoralist claims run…
