As climate change affects their prey, wolves like this one in Mongolia’s Bayan-Olgiy Province have increasingly targeted the livestock of the region’s nomadic Kazakh herders—a community that venerates the species.
2026-01-07 1135词 晦涩
Serikbol says his ancestors, the Blue Turks, who conquered Central Asia in the sixth century, descended from wolves. Most of the Kazakh herders are Muslim, but their spiritual regard for wolves is rooted in an animism that extends to horses and eagles as well. Wolves occupy a special place, though, and are revered for many of the same reasons they are feared, including their intelligence, courage, and heightened senses. Though wolves and herders have coexisted in the Altay for millennia, surviving the ebb and flow of empires and shifting borders, an increasingly volatile climate has pushed the wolves to attack livestock more frequently over the past several years. More often than ever, the Kazakh nomads are forced to balance their reverence for the wolf with their duty to protect their herds—and their livelihoods. This wolf hunt in April 2023 was the community’s first in two years.
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