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  1 - Will Mongolia’s Herders Disappear within 10 Years?
  Bayarmaa Enkhbayar
  Introduction The challenges related to the preservation of Mongolia’s pastureland, its quality and condition are key concerns for the livestock sector. However, scientists, researchers and government agencies tend to focus solely on rangeland ecology and livestock أکثر

  Introduction The challenges related to the preservation of Mongolia’s pastureland, its quality and condition are key concerns for the livestock sector. However, scientists, researchers and government agencies tend to focus solely on rangeland ecology and livestock. All too often, herders are overlooked and omitted from the discourse. This is the main reason I want to talk about people of the Mongolian grassland and Social justice issues in rangelands. Mongolia’s herders are the keepers of culture and tradition, passing on their knowledge and wisdom from generation to generation. However, the number of herders has been decreasing each year while the number of livestock has been rapidly growing. By the end of 2015, there were 50 million livestock nationally and just 145,200 herder households. In 2010, herder households numbered 223.000. Sixty percent of herder households have fewer than 200 head of livestock, with only 3 percent of wealthier herders owning more than 1000. According to economists, 200 livestock per household is below the living standard and is insufficient to sustain people’s lives. This means that 60 percent of herders, or 87,000 people, are vulnerable to losing their livestock- their key source of income and household security- in natural disasters. تفاصيل المقالة
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  2 - Indigenous Knowledge of Shepherds in Determining the Flammability of Vegetation: A case study of Khalkhal Semi-Steppic Rangelands of Iran
  Ardeshir Pournemati Adel Sepehry Hossein Barani Kiomars Sefidi
  10.30495/rs.2022.685974
  The indigenous knowledge of shepherds about the different components of the plant fuel, ways of their classification and their contribution to fire behavior helps range managers to understand fire and effective management of the rangelands. The present research aims to أکثر

  The indigenous knowledge of shepherds about the different components of the plant fuel, ways of their classification and their contribution to fire behavior helps range managers to understand fire and effective management of the rangelands. The present research aims to document the indigenous knowledge of shepherds in this regard. For this purpose, a semi-structured interview in 2020 with 17 shepherds of semi-steppe rangelands of Khalkhal in northwestern Iran was performed and data were analyzed by the note-taking method and the categorization method. Given the knowledge of shepherds, plants were categorized into three groups of carriers, retardant, and burnable. They consider the morphological traits, type and composition of vegetation, climatic factors and physiography to be effective in creation and spread of fire. Shepherds' controlled fires are carried out with the aim of removing thorny plants to increase the length of the green period of the plants, to graze more livestock, to increase the income, to destroy the old seedlings and to rejuvenate the rangeland. Uncontrolled and deliberate fires are conducted with the aim of destroying state property, protesting against fines, unhealthy competition and conflicts between individuals, which reduce the winter forage of livestock and land grabbing. The time required for the rehabilitation of the rangelands was expressed after 6-7 years after fire. Practical suggestions could be used in participatory management system (shepherds and officials from natural resources management) for controlling fuel density using different grazing systems. تفاصيل المقالة