
Transhumance: An Ancient Practice at Risk
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A Walk With the Sheep
Colantuanos were healthy, but authorities banned the movement of cows from one region to another. They introduced a protocol which is keeping the animals in Pulia, but it's been 40 degrees since the start of May. The animals are suffering and have already stopped producing much milk. A moritsum will die. Eventually, she was allowed to transport the cattle by truck, but by then, five of her cows had died, and many more had stopped producing milk altogether. One sheep collapses from exhaustion too old to make the track. Another takes off in a side pasture, and this slapstick scene unfolds with two of the shepherds trying and mostly failing to hook the escapee with
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