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The Quantity of Livestock Owned by the Mongols in the 13th Century

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 September 2009

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In the course of the last fifty years there have been on average twenty-four million animals registered annually in Mongolia. In 1996 29, 275,700 animals were counted. This is a quantity never before experienced in the country's history. In the coming years another rise in the number of animals is expected. Some specialists conjecture a continual increase. Others are attempting to prove that this cannot be realized on account of limitations of space and that, already, throughout the country, pasture land is being threatened by overuse due to the sheer quantity of livestock. The question of how much livestock the resources of the entire natural pasture can support is still not completely answered.

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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 8 , Issue 2 , July 1998 , pp. 237 - 246
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1998

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