There is a world somewhere between reality and fiction. Although ignored by many, it is very real and so are those living in it. This forum is about the natural world. Here, wild animals will be heard and respected. The forum offers a glimpse into an unknown world as well as a room with a view on the present and the future. Anyone able to speak on behalf of those living in the emerald forest and the deep blue sea is invited to join.
Tracking Gobi Grizzlies.
Gobi, in Mongolian, means "waterless place." Half a million square miles in size, the Great Gobi is one of the Earth's five largest deserts ( outside the frozen polar expanses receiving so little fresh precipitation that they, too, technically qualify as deserts ). The drylands stretch for a thousand miles east and west and as many as six hundred miles north and south, taking in the southern third of Mongolia and much of northern China. This is right at the center of the Asian land mass, so far from any ocean that clouds bearing moisture drop nearly all of it over other landscapes before they get here. Rainfall in the Gobi averages just four to six inches annually. Some years, parts of the countryside never see a drop. Temperatures can reach 122 degrees Fahrenheit in summer and sink to minus 40 in winter. If you imagine the result to be a vast realm of shifting sands, well, you shouldn't. The Gobi is mostly stone.
Bears of the Himalayan Mountains
