transhumance

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He cited the partnership between COMINSUD / MBOSCUDA and the FGF Secretariat covering the support to the participatory and consensual management of nature resources in cattle raising zones, transhumance corridors and protected areas.

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  • He cited the partnership between COMINSUD / MBOSCUDA and the FGF Secretariat covering the support to the participatory and consensual management of nature resources in cattle raising zones, transhumance corridors and protected areas. —  Up Station Mountain Club
  • The museum does also ventures into the ethnographic, covering the transhumance lifestyle followed until early in the 20th century. —  Philobiblon
  • The annual parade is held to protest the destruction of the countries ancient transhumance routes, used to lead livestock to the high pastures for the summer months in late May and early June and back to lower pasture in early October. —  AOL News
  • The custom of transhumance has declined, but the caves are still an irreplaceable element in the making of both Cabrales and the other great Asturian blue cheese, Gamonedo. —  The Guardian World News
 

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  1. French, from transhumer, to move livestock seasonally, from Spanish trashumar : Latin trāns-, trans- + Latin humus, ground; see dhghem- in Indo-European roots.
 

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