Mongolia’s Gobi nomads
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The southern Gobi desert in Mongolia was one of the world's last great wildernesses with its cold desert of vast plains and wide roaming herds. Today it is the centre of the planet's greatest resource boom. But this has started to have a detrimental effect on nomad communities, as Jonathan Watts reports

Jonathan Watts and Ken Macfarlane

guardian.co.uk, Monday 7 November 2011