Changing Taiga

Reindeer herding camps in the East Taiga A snapshot from 2011

Tengis-Shishged River Basin National Park

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Source: information on camp locations derived from herders, June 2011; WWF Mongolia, Web-GIS; NASA SRTM 30 dataset.

Map by Riccardo Pravettoni.

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