Transhumance

Herding on a Hotter Earth

Historically, much of Jabal Akroum has relied on animal transhumance, which predates human pastoralism. If you’re transhumant, you follow the natural migration of your animals to lower-lying warm valleys in winter and back up to the cooler mountains for summer. But the steady creep of climate change, combined with dire daily realities, means that the ancient rhythm of transhumance is losing its pace.