The transhumant pastoralist all over the globe are making their livings on raising of livestock. But, it is found that their number is declining in recent days due to changing living conditions, impact of modernization as well as the changing environmental conditions. I particularly refer to the transhumant Brokpas of West Kameng and Tawang districts of Arunachal Pradesh, India. The number of these people is in declining trend in recent decades and thereby the number of livestock especially the yak population is also declining. The improved living conditions and the likelihood of living the lifestyle of neighbouring people has influenced them to change this arduous occupation...There may be number of factors responsible for their declining population which needs to be discussed at large. Hence, anyone who is working on such transhumant pastoralists may ponder upon.....
This decreasing trend is highly visible in east Africa. Vast areas which used to be pastoral rangelands have now been converted to crop lands with the establishment of supplemental irrigation schemes and the communities in these areas have permanently settled. I think, population pressure, modernization, national policies and also environmental conditions have contributed to the decreasing trend in the transhumant population
Changes are inevitable, nothing remains static.
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Dear colleagues,
This topic is very interesting. I share your views.
It's true in Western Europe in a less obvious scale ( rural residents leave their traditional place of life to be concentrated in the suburbs of cities)...The view of Roland is naturally true ("transhumant pastoralist population" in France...the end: 19th Century; at the end).
I think this decreasing trend may be considered as a fact in developing countries and in developed countries. It is a cause of overpopulation in the larger cities as a reason of their impoverishment but also of environmental disasters in the futur.
Yes, their number is declining and perhaps that lifestyle will disappear in a short while. The world is in a process of grand homogenisation in terms of lifestyle, in terms of dress, food, even the very thought process.
Of course, these are all part of a change; but whether all such changes are for good or bad, whether fitting in the context of limited natural resources, whether fitting for the larger good of humankind and other life forms, I think these are all matters one need to think about.
I think life, the biosphere, humankind, and the species at large, all cannot be just left to the mercy of so called market driven changes, while the market that is driving the change itself is forcefully guided and manipulated and is not free (although many of us want to believe it as free). I think the so called well-read (educated and thinking) ones need to really ponder about these issues.
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