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Great Khan Of The Mongol Empire! The Man In Time Who Races On Horseback Along It’s Flow, Temüjin!

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Western Mongolia Likely To Experience Harsh Winter http://dlvr.it/TPgqSx

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Extreme Kälte und Schnee: Die Herausforderungen der mongolischen Hirten

Auf den gefrorenen und schneebedeckten Böden finden die Herden in der Mongolei kaum noch Nahrung. Extreme Kälte und Schneefälle haben den Hirten in der Mongolei schwere wirtschaftliche Verluste zugefügt. Mehr als 1,5 Millionen Herdentiere sind nach Angaben der staatlichen Notstandskommission in diesem Winter in dem zentralasiatischen Land bereits verendet. «Dzud» nennen die Mongolen die Schnee-…

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Datos de teledetección utilizados para la acción temprana de dzud en Mongolia - Mongolia

Datos de teledetección utilizados para la acción temprana de dzud en Mongolia – Mongolia

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La Agencia Nacional de Monitoreo Meteorológico y Ambiental de Mongolia (NAMEM) ha desarrollado un mapa de riesgo de invierno extremo (dzud) para el país utilizando datos satelitales MODIS, entre otros recursos. El mapa muestra que más del 50% del país está amenazado por un duro invierno. Como resultado del análisis, la Federación Internacional de Sociedades de la Cruz Roja y de la Media…

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Climate change is taking its toll. They have a new word, dzud, that’s about 15 years old, for the harsh winter storms that now hit the region. They freeze herds solid: a herder can wake up and find his whole flock dead. There’s no recourse, no insurance. More and more nomads are moving to Ulaanbaatar: there are three million people in Mongolia, and half of them live in the capital. A ghetto of gers has grown up on the outskirts of town, peopled with nomads who’ve been pushed off the land and are now looking for work as taxi drivers.

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Question:  Dzud.  Thank you.   

Spokesman:  Dzud.  Dzud.  Dzud. On… sorry.  On your…  [laughter]  Yes, no, we very much hope this is not the end of the political process.

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Aid Agencies Brace for Devastating Mongolian ‘Dzud’ This Winter

Reuters, March 3, 2016

ULAANBAATAR--Global aid agencies are responding to a call for assistance by Mongolia as harsh winter weather raises fears for the safety and livelihoods of the country’s traditional pastoralists, who have already been hit hard by a drought last year.

Dry weather has scorched most of Mongolia’s wheat crop and now mass animal deaths due to a freezing winter, locally known as “dzud”, are threatening more pain for the country, where farming accounts for about 13 percent of the economy. The last dzud in 2009-2010 killed 9.7 million of the country’s livestock, according to the National Emergency Agency of Mongolia.

While the government has not yet declared the current winter a natural disaster, it has warned the situation could get worse. So far, a drop in temperatures to minus 55 Celsius (minus 67 Fahrenheit) has killed nearly 200,000 livestock.

The weather and grazing conditions are already worse than they were in the previous dzud, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) said in a statement, citing the Mongolian Ministry of Food and Agriculture.

“Usually for the dzud, the most devastation is observed in March, April and May,” Garid Enkhjin, national program coordinator for the IFRC in Mongolia, told Reuters.

The IFRC said it has launched an emergency appeal for 834,000 Swiss Francs ($835,000) to assist 25,500 Mongolian herders, who are at risk of losing their livestock and livelihoods due to the extreme winter.

Currently, 80 percent of Mongolia is under snow, making it difficult for nomadic families to travel along centuries-old pasture routes to find food for their livestock. Aggravating the situation is the fact that herders can live up to 50 kms (31 miles) from urban settlements and many are without cars.