LANZHOU, China -- Last year, local Communist Party officials relocated a 64-year-old Tibetan cattle and sheepherder named Lhabu to a newly created town called "Nomads' New Village," about seven ...

Grassland degradation is evident along the twisting mountain road from Yushu to Xining, ... Nomads are paid an annual allowance – of 3,000 yuan (about £300) ...

Chinese officials blame the nomads’ “unscientific” herding methods for a degradation of the grasslands that make up 70% of Tibet. Grass yields per unit of land are down, they argue, noxious ...

Nomads scour the Tibetan Plateau for the cordyceps fungus, which can sell for up to $50,000 per pound. ... as grasslands used by livestock are raked over with tools.

Zhaxi Cairang is trying to give his son a choice of two worlds to live in: the traditional, pastoral world of Tibetan nomads, which he has inhabited for… China's Nomads Have A Foot In Two Very ...

Like generations of Tibetan nomads before him, Phuntsok Dorje makes a living raising yaks and other livestock on the vast alpine grasslands that provide a thatch on the roof of the world. But in ...

China is attempting to move nomads into permanent settlements, but the transition for many has proven difficult. After apartment living, one family plans to go back to herding.