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Dixon onto Geography Education!  Mongolia's Nomads  Mongolia's
Nomads | Geography Education |  Through his Vanishing Cultures
Project photographer Taylor Weidman documents threatened ways of
life.  About his work in Mongolia, he states: "Mongolian
pastoral herders make up one of the world's largest remaining
nomadic cultures. For millennia they have lived on the steppes,
grazing their livestock on the lush grasslands. But today, their
traditional way of life is at risk on multiple fronts. Alongside
a rapidly changing economic landscape, climate change and
desertification are also threatening nomadic life, killing both
herds and grazing land."  Seth Dixon's insight:  In times of
ecological hardships and global economic restructuring, many
children of nomadic herders are seeking employment out of the
rural areas and in the urban environment.  The cultural change
that this represents is for Mongolia enormous and is captured
wonderfully in this photo ga