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We spend our last day in Helambu talking to the few remaining yak herders in Langtang National Park. Changes are being observed in grazing pastures/grasslands, which are reducing in area or being taken over by forests. Water sources are disappearing in the highlands, leaving old livestock/cattle sheds in grazing pastures without water. Unable to shift from ancient grazing routes, pastoralists are responding by artificially growing grasslands and using pipes to bring water to fill dried-up ponds in the pastures. But how can the livelihoods of pastoralists be secured in a changing climate when there is no consensus on who is responsible to solve this problem, as range land expert Dr Uttam Babu Shrestha questions?
By Greenhood NepalWe spend our last day in Helambu talking to the few remaining yak herders in Langtang National Park. Changes are being observed in grazing pastures/grasslands, which are reducing in area or being taken over by forests. Water sources are disappearing in the highlands, leaving old livestock/cattle sheds in grazing pastures without water. Unable to shift from ancient grazing routes, pastoralists are responding by artificially growing grasslands and using pipes to bring water to fill dried-up ponds in the pastures. But how can the livelihoods of pastoralists be secured in a changing climate when there is no consensus on who is responsible to solve this problem, as range land expert Dr Uttam Babu Shrestha questions?