Camels
A camel is an even-toed ungulate in the genus Camelus that bears distinctive fatty deposits known as "humps" on its back. Camels have long been domesticated and, as livestock, they provide food (milk and meat) and textiles (fiber and felt from hair). Camels are working animals especially suited to their desert habitat and are a vital means of transport for passengers and cargo. There are three surviving species of camel. The one-humped dromedary makes up 94% of the world's camel population, and the two-humped Bactrian camel makes up 6%. The Wild Bactrian camel is a separate species and is now …
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PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 21 February 2023 English
On February 21, International Mother Language Day, PARI reaches out to migrant workers across India to understand the interplay between land, language and livelihoods in their lives
Among his belongings stacked on the back of his camels as they move from field to field is a bundle full …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 21 November 2022 English
In this film where camels swim in the Gulf of Kachchh, herders from the Fakirani Jat and Bhopa Rabari communities of Gujarat narrate the difficulties in keeping their seafaring livestock alive …
2022 ‘These are Kharai camels, they need the sea’ In this film where camels swim in the Gulf of Kachchh … See more from this region “My grandfather had 300 camels. Now I have only 40. The others died...they weren’t … in the sea,” says Jethabhai Rabari. He herds the camels of the sea in Beh village of Khambhaliya taluka … The camels swim for hours looking food in the mangroves of the Gulf of Kachchh. Kharai camels have been … threatened the survival of the camels and their herders. These camels need cher (mangrove), says Jethabhai …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 7 November 2022 English
Oxfam International, UK, published this paper on November 7, 2022. It has been written by Alex Maitland, Max Lawson, Hilde Stroot, Alexandre Poidatz, Ashfaq Khalfan and Nafkote Dabi, researchers working …
are no cows left. They all died. We have a few camels and goats that have survived the drought, but …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 13 October 2022 English
policies’ dismissal of traditional knowledge of the pastoralist communities endangers the lives of Kharai camels and their herders in and around the Marine National Park and Sanctuary in Jamnagar, Gujarat …
PhotoZone • Oct. 13, 2022 Jamnagar’s ‘swimming camels’ in deep waters State policies’ dismissal of traditional … pastoralist communities endangers the lives of Kharai camels and their herders in and around the Marine National … Jethabhai Rabari. ‘Them’ and ‘they’ are the prized camels the pastoral nomad is talking about. And they’re … they’re swimming around in search of food. Camels? Swimming? Really? Well, yes. The ‘vast area’ Jethabhai … coast of the Gulf of Kachchh. And here, herds of camels tended by nomadic pastoralist bands do swim from …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 October 2021 English
In 2021, the 150th year of the passing of the Criminal Tribes Act, 1871, and 75th year of India’s independence, Bhasha Research and Publication Centre published this report on the …
from whom the villagers received good breed of camels, bullock and cows. These communities were also … and Karnataka in the south with their sheep and camels. Later a part of them settled in the Gujarat Kutch …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 30 November 2020 English
This report was published by Network of Rural & Agrarian Studies (a nationwide collective of scholars, researchers, farmers, students and activists) on November 30, 2020. It aims to provide a …
of diverse breeds of animals such as cattles, camels, goats, sheep etc. [54] 30 Nearly 70% of all units …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 22 September 2020 English
India is seeing huge declines in native insect species – several of them tied closely to our food security. But it’s hard to get humans viewing insects with the warmth …
same amount of food in a day as 35,000 people, 20 camels or six elephants. Not surprising then that the …
National Museums of World Culture · 31 March 2020 English
eastern Punjab. They are figurative and often depict scenes of daily life including animals like camels, horses, peacocks, pigeons, fish.‖ On this cloth, the head ornaments worn by a woman are embroidered …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 16 October 2019
and sex composition of cattle, buffaloes, yaks, sheep, goats, pigs, horses, ponies, mules, donkeys, camels, dogs, rabbit and elephants. It also enumerated poultry birds such as fowl, ducks, emus and turkeys …
LC: Library of Congress · 2019 English
Statement or responsiblity taken from acknowledgements. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Unicef www site; viewed on January 11, 2022).
number of owned animals (cows, bulls, buffaloes, camels, goats, sheep, lambs, pigs, horses, mules, donkeys …