Khovd Province, 2018
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KHOVD PROVINCE, MONGOLIA, June 12, 2018. Ulziikhishig prepares dinner outside the family ger. A cat watches from beside a blue bench. The Altai Mountains rise behind them. Nearly a third of Mongolia's three million people are nomadic herders, a way of life largely unchanged for centuries. It is now under threat. Air temperatures across Mongolia have risen more than two degrees Celsius since 1940, three times the global average. Dzud, the Mongolian term for extreme winter cold following summer drought, once struck roughly every ten years. In 2009-2010, a dzud killed more than ten million livestock. In 2018, another killed 700,000. Khovd Province is home to more than 17 ethnicities. Sources: UNDP Mongolia; World Bank; Climate Refugees; PreventionWeb.