With that, General Nkunda's columns of Tutsi fighters plodded back into the green hills outside the town, carrying suitcases on their heads and driving herds of cattle before them.

ECONOMIST: Congo

To maintain the continuity of education during summers when Gujjars trek along with their herds of cattle to the upper reaches of the Himalayas, these voluntary teachers joined the Gujjar caravan.

UNESCO: Teaching the Nomads in the Wild

Ibrahim Ag Idbaltanat, a descendent of slaves himself, born to a black Tuareg family in northeastern Mali, has been championing human rights and equity since the late 1970s, after becoming aware of injustices against families of slave descent by traditional slave masters, including physical violence and the confiscation of both land and herds of cattle.

FORBES: A Son of Slaves Still Fights For Human Rights

The Shrewsbury and Atcham MP spoke of the "devastating" impact on dairy farmers and their families when "whole herds" of cattle are taken away to be killed.

BBC: Abandon badger cull, Green MP demands

More people means more forest cleared for shifting cultivation, and bigger herds of goats and cattle browsing the vegetation and compacting the soil.

BBC: You are in: Sci/Tech

The road rises, dips, twists, and turns along the eastern shore as it passes the occasional house, amid small herds of dairy and beef cattle behind barbed wire fences.

NPR: Environmentalist John Francis, Walking the Walk

Up to 18% of US cattle are thought to have the disease which mainly affects dairy herds.

BBC: Crohn's Disease

For most of his life, Faustino's sole human contact has occurred once every two years, when he herds his cattle to the nearest town to sell.

CNN: The loneliest cowboy in the world