The herders claimed that they had legal lease agreements with private ranchers.However, residents protested the destruction of crops and the environment by the
overgrazing camels.
Poverty, political instability, deforestation,
overgrazing and bad irrigation practices can all undermine the productivity of the land.
She explained that the farmers argued that the planned relocation would cause
overgrazing and erode their pasture.
In recent years, Gul said that the pace of desertification had increased due to naturally occurring phenomena such as drought, other impacts of climate change and human activities such as rapid population growth, unplanned urbanisation,
overgrazing and deforestation.
Recommendations are made for reducing the fast rate of retreating of the Reshun glaciers by controlling
overgrazing, afforestation and modern methods like glacier sheeting.
Subsidies increasing livestock numbers, coupled with herd mobility and
overgrazing, led to further land degradation, loss of biodiversity and desertification.
"If
overgrazing is becoming an issue, move cows onto a sacrifice paddock."
Li Yaoming, of the Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, said Tajikistan had suffered serious grassland degradation in recent years as a result of population growth, a warmer climate, melting glaciers, frequent extreme weather events and
overgrazing.
Muscat:
Overgrazing in parts of Oman due to a significant rise in the number of domestic livestock poses a threat to the environment, experts have said.
Frankincense trees are currently undergoing severe population decline due to
overgrazing, insect infestation, and unsustainable harvesting methods.
The policy aims to prevent
overgrazing on the tundra where Norways estimated reindeer population of 220,000 live.