Mongolian term for a severe winter in which large number of livestock die.
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Examples for "zud"
Examples for "zud"
1The severe winter, or zud, has decimated flocks and isolated herders, especially in western Mongolia.
2The combination of a dry summer, followed by heavy snow and low winter temperatures is known in Mongolian as a 'zud'.
1Usually, a dzud is likely to occur when a harsh winter follows a very dry summer.
2His next worry is the dzud.
3In 2009-2010, Mongolia lost 20 percent of its livestock to the dzud, the World Bank estimates.
4Mongolia is in the midst of a winter phenomenon called a dzud, when extremely low temperatures and snow make it difficult for animals to survive.
5The last dzud in 2009-2010 killed 9.7 million of the country's livestock, according to the National Emergency Agency of Mongolia.
6Mass animal deaths due to a freezing winter, locally known as a "dzud", in a predominantly pastoral country would only make a bad situation worse.
7However, agriculture is vulnerable to desertification as well as long freezing winters known locally as dzuds.