Deforestation and Overgrazing Drive Wildlife Decline in Ethiopia’s Hamer District, Survey Finds
A survey of 96 households in Ethiopia's Hamer District identifies deforestation and overgrazing as the leading threats to wildlife while ...
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Camels Could Bankroll the Restoration of Tunisia’s Dying Rangelands
A new SWOT-based study argues that Tunisia's dromedary camel value chains, despite low productivity and informal markets, could attract investment ...
Mixed Livestock Systems in Peru’s High Andes Fall Into Three Distinct Types, Survey Finds
A survey of 175 farms in Ayacucho, Peru, has classified high Andean mixed livestock systems into three distinct groups, revealing ...
Fulani Families Rewrite the School Rulebook in Senegal’s Sahel
A new qualitative study of Fulani communities in Senegal's Ferlo region finds that pastoral families actively negotiate and hybridize formal ...
Long-Memory Models Beat Neural Networks in Forecasting Somalia’s Pastoral Red Meat Decline
A 64-year analysis of Somalia's pastoral red meat output shows that a long-memory ARFIMA model outperforms neural networks and classical ...
For Pastoralist Women, Security on the Land Comes From the Group, Not a Title Deed
A three-country study of pastoralist communities in Burkina Faso, Sudan and Kenya finds that women feel most secure in their ...
Cattle Died, Camels Endured: How Kenyan Herders Fought a Four-Year Drought
A 34-year study of Borana pastoralist households reveals how cattle collapses, camel resilience, monetised herding labour, and women-led fodder banking ...
Satellite Insurance Falls Short for Kenyan Herders as Drought Losses Go Unpaid
New research finds that Kenya's satellite-based livestock insurance consistently failed to match herders' actual drought losses, and that this persistent ...
Himalayan Tribe at a Crossroads: Systematic Review Maps the Bhotiya of Uttarakhand
A new systematic review synthesizes two centuries of scholarship on the Bhotiya tribe of Uttarakhand, documenting how border closure, sedentarization, ...
Alpine peat bogs reveal 10,000 years of cold snaps and human fingerprints in the Swiss Alps
Cores from 10,000-year-old peatlands in Switzerland's Fimba Valley record Holocene cold events, including the 8.2 ka climate anomaly, alongside millennia ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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