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July 17, 2019

Sheep flock in the Gobi Desert

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Wandering desert flock. Nomads of the Gobi

The Gobi Desert stretches across 800,000 square kilometres, covering parts of northern China and Mongoloia. Due to the Gobi’s high elevation and high latitude, it’s a cold desert. And while we tend to think of deserts as endless sand dunes, most of the Gobi’s topography is exposed rock.Despite these harsh conditions, the Gobi is teeming with life—some of it human. Nearly one third of the population in the Gobi Desert leads a pastoral nomadic life. Small communities of people drive their livestock herds—like the sheep seen in our photo today—across the landscape in search of fresh grazing territory. Both herd and herders rarely settle anywhere for long.

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