World Day to Combat Desertification: Mongolia | News.mn, June 11: Almost 90 percent of the total territory of Mongolia is newly at risk of desertification while 44.7 percent is already severely affected by desertification. ... It is estimated that over 70 percent of 126.6 million hectares of grassland was destroyed to be replaced by green crop plants. Other factors of desertification related to human activities are also explained through the domination of goats in dominated livestock. The goats hooves damage the soil and eat roots of plants. Also haloxylon, a genus of shrubs or small trees in the Gobi Desert that curbs the sand movement, has been reduced greatly through cutting.
Posted on: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 09:03:32 +0000
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