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TO GO WITH: Mongolia-environment-rights-animal-lifestyle by Khaliun Bayartsogt This photo taken on September 18, 2015 shows Punsul Ganbat milking a reindeer at dawn in the East Taiga region in Khovsgol province, in northern Mongolia. For thousands of years Mongolia's Dukha ethnic minority - known as Tsaatan in Mongolian - have depended on their reindeer herds to survive the bitter winters, but now their nomadic way of life is threatened by new government restrictions introduced on environmental grounds, they say. AFP PHOTO / Greg BAKER (Photo credit should read GREG BAKER/AFP/Getty Images) (Greg Baker/AFP/Getty Images)

Conservation policies threaten indigenous reindeer herders in Mongolia

Nancy Langston, Kate Christen