Urbanisation affecting Tibetan nomads


In this picture taken on July 27, 2016, a Tibetan nomad herder (L) cleans vegetables in a river in Yushu county in the mountains of Qinghai province.The number of Tibetans maintaining the pastoral lifestyle is dwindling, mostly due to a Chinese government push to decrease the Tibetan nomad population and move them into resettlement villages, sometimes by force. / AFP PHOTO / NICOLAS ASFOURI

Yushu: Under a twinkling starlit sky, the glow of an electric light is the only sign that a Tibetan nomad’s way of life has changed in hundreds of years.

Yaks are still milked using wooden buckets with rope handles, and the animal’s waste is dried and burned for fuel – a necessity at the high altitude where trees are scarce.

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