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| annotationAuthorName | Ananda Thrift |
| version | 1229 |
| dateModified | 2022-06-28T08:20:58Z |
| parentItem | Exploding demand for cashmere wool is ruining Mongolia's grasslands _ Science _ AAAS.pdf |
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| annotationPageLabel | 2 |
| dateAdded | 2022-06-28T08:20:36Z |
| annotationText | n the 1990s, Mongolia abandoned its communist system of government and with it, strict quotas on the number of grazing animals allowed across the vast grasslands. Since then, the country has gone from 20 million grazing livestock to 61.5 million, eating their way across the land. When animals eat more plants than can grow back naturally, the landscape begins to shift in subtle ways. Plants become sparser and patchy and dead areas emerge, which accelerates soil erosion. Native grasses are replaced with poisonous, inedible species. |