These include not just mining, but also inviting Chinese agriculturalists to farm great swathes of steppe.
Genghis Khan operated in the context of the nomadic steppe, where pillaging villages was the norm.
Sitting in traffic congestion, she demonstrates by blasting out a performance of Steppe, The Endless Steppe!
Sea skills come as naturally to the people of these shores as horsemanship does to peoples of the steppe.
Examples of waste abound, from a ghost city on China's northern steppe to decadent resorts on its southern shores.
His first sensation of Earth was the smell of spring after landing in the Kazakh steppe on Tuesday, he said.
The green-brown steppe rushes underfoot as you canter in their dusty wake.
Mongolian Naadam is inseparably connected to the nomadic civilization of the Mongols, who have long practiced pastoralism on Central Asias vast steppe.
Without decent transport on Mongolia's roadless steppe, a ready market for livestock and processed goods was no longer assured, particularly for remote herders.
Within this area, the Festuca and Stipa steppe ecosystem has been conserved like an island in the Dniper-Molochnoe lowland, which has otherwise intensive land use practices.
Within a few days, services swing round the brilliant blue waters of Lake Baikal, before plunging southward into the gently sloping grasslands of the Mongolian steppe, dotted with yurts and grazing horses.
Mongolians share the sincere affection for the natural beauty of the Eastern Steppe that you express, and precisely for that reason it has been designated as a special protected area.
Researchers Russell Ciochon and E Arthur Bettis III, from the University of Iowa, US, believe these climatic cycles may have caused the expansion of open habitats, such as grasslands and steppe.
General Description Askaniya-Nova Biosphere Reserve is a representative of the Black Sea southern-steppe biogeographic province, situated 60 km south-east of the town of Kakhova close to the Black Sea.
It was only a matter of time before the virus that has successfully claimed the rest of the Russian periphery, bar Belarus, arrived from Ukraine on the Central Asian steppe (see article).
Created as the first steppe reserve in the Ukraine in 1888, it comprises a dendrological park of the 19th century and a zoological park with a breeding centre for Przewalski horse, ostriches, aboriginal ungulates and birds.
The driving factors are the 200-day "use-by" rules on the Russian-built capsules that carry astronauts home from the ISS, and the safety protocols that demand all landings in the Kazakh Steppe must take place in daylight.
The second day I was a bit wobbly but went with my hosts deep into the rugged steppe for a traditional barbecue capped by races to the top of mountains and a clifftop midnight wrestling match.
The Soviet planners who re- drew the map in the 1920s divided Central Asia broadly along linguistic lines, hoping to construct nations from the various nomadic and semi-nomadic tribes of desert and steppe by exaggerating the differences between their dialects.
Petersburgto the Siberian steppe.
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