Nomadic life

Since centuries mongols live as nomads. That means, that they are travelling through the countryside in order to find the best place for their livestock without having a house in the western sense. They live in so-called gers: traditional tents, which are built with material from wood, cotton and filt.

Habitat Great Gobi B

The Great Gobi B is and has always been an important grazing area for nomadic herders – about 100 families with close to 60’000 heads of livestock use the park mostly in winter and during the spring and fall migration. To live within the park a special permission is needed. During summer time the nomads stay in the heights of the Altai mountains in the north of Great Gobi B.

The most important livestock for a herder family are goats and sheep. On average a herder family in the Strictly Protected Area Great Gobi B owns 450 sheep and goats, which provide the family with the most important products of every day life: meat, milk, cashmere, wool and hides.