Dear MEL Topic Readers,
The Cashmere crisis in the Himalayan ice
desert
Cashmere wool is fiber taken from cashmere
goats. Because of its fine, strong, light, soft, and high insulating features,
cashmere wool is highly valued around the world. The soft hair is actually the undercoat
of Cashmere goats which live in an unforgiving mountainous region in the Ladakh
Range and the Changthang plateau where average altitude reaches six kilometers high
and the winter temperatures could mark -40 degrees Celsius. The severe
conditions stimulate the growth of the goat’s soft undercoat, which is
essential for the goats and valuable for humans.
But because of climate change and wildlife
conservation programs, both of which are initiated by humans, the environment of
the roof-of-the-world is changing.
Enjoy reading the article and seeing staggering
photos of lives in the Changthang plateau.
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