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…
Steppe observer·Aug 24Mongolia's new power lines cut through herders' spring pasture corridorsThe 1,100-kilometre Tavan Bogd–Ölgii transmission line crosses 47 herder camps, forcing families to reroute seasonal livestock movements…
Jamila Jaxaliyeva·May 18Steppelands 2.0Reworked transcript of my talk at the Yale Philosophy & the Built Environment Working Group, October 30, 2024
Rangelands Community Initiative RCI Africa·Feb 15Investing in pastoralist youth initiatives is key to addressing climate change and land degradationAcross the African pastoralist landscape, shepherds are the powerhouse of sustainability of pastoralism, supporting mobility, household…
Niceta Mutheu·Feb 10under the Scorching Sun: How Kenya’s Drought Is Reshaping Pastoralist LifeBy NICETA MUTHEU, Journalism Student
Janak Mistry·Apr 22, 2024Planet Centric EmpathyThe problems we are confronted by these days are problems that we are often unable to relate to. Climate change for example is a…
