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MBtv: Climate change pushes Mongolian herders to the brink

Macau Business · last updated

Mongolian herder Zandan Lkhamsuren lost all but two of his 280-strong flock of sheep in last year’s deep freeze — known as a ‘dzud’ — an extreme weather event that is becoming more frequent and more intense in a country badly affected by climate change. Across Mongolia, more than seven million animals were killed, over a tenth of the country’s total.