GOBI DESERT, Mongolia (Reuters) - The carcass of a freshly slaughtered goat lies under the bed in a nomadic family's ger in Mongolia as the sleeping bags of visitors are rolled out on the floor next ...

The fabric is made from the undercoats of the local goats, which develop a particularly tight fur to survive the harsh winters, where temperatures can drop as low as -40°C. In past decades, cashmere ...

For herder Bayarduuren Zunduikhuu, it is also one of the busiest. “We wake up as the sun rises,” she says. “Spring is all about the cashmere harvest.” Like many members of Mongolia’s estimated 300,000 ...

There's a lot of time for contemplation when you're milking cows in Mongolia. 90-year-old Lkhagvajav Bish has milked them for decades. She's a nomadic herder, and she follows them in their endless ...

In the vast, snowy Mongolian countryside, nomadic herders are combing through the hair shed by their yak. It used to be that they would throw away the hair -- until Nancy Johnston persuaded them it ...

The Government of Canada and the University of Saskatchewan are part of a project trying to help Mongolian farmers modernize their practices.

HOHHOT, Oct. 2 (Xinhua) -- As autumn brings cooler temperatures to the Northern Hemisphere, demand for cashmere sweaters climbs. On a ranch in Erdos City, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous ...

The local government agencies are working exactly in line with Mongolian legislation which requires to disinfect and bury all the infected bodies. For this purpose in total 7 burial sites been planned ...

PETA renewed its attack on luxury giants after claiming to find cruelty in their cashmere supply chains. An investigation into a Mongolian supplier to Chanel, Dior, Gucci, Hermès and Louis Vuitton ...

Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia (CNN) — By spring on central Mongolia’s vast grasslands, the bitter winter snows have largely melted, but strong winds and sandstorms can make this one of the harshest times of ...