{"id":5944,"date":"2012-05-10T21:18:21","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T21:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/blog\/?p=1261"},"modified":"2023-10-02T11:37:44","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T18:37:44","slug":"nomads-land-interactive-map","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/dipsy.pbs.org\/independentlens\/blog\/nomads-land-interactive-map\/","title":{"rendered":"Nomads&#8217; Land Interactive Map"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our ancestors were nomads, but today, out of 6.8 billion people, only 30 million lead migratory lives. <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/summer-pasture\">Summer Pasture<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(tonight on\u00a0<em>Independent Lens<\/em>\u00a0at 10 PM \u00a0\u2014\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.prg\/independentlens\/broadcast.html\">check local listings<\/a>\u00a0) spotlights a nomadic family in the grasslands of Dzachukha in eastern Tibet. Locho, his wife Yama, and their infant daughter depend on yaks for their survival, but Dzachukha is becoming more settled, threatening their way of life.<\/p>\n<p>Many nomadic societies around the world are facing threats to their way of life by forced resettlement, climate change, political unrest, armed conflict, and assimilation into modern urban cities.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a sampling of nomadic people throughout the globe who maintain the peripatetic lifestyle despite its challenges.<\/p>\n<p>[custom_html]<\/p>\n<p><small>View <a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-align: left;\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps\/ms?ie=UTF8&amp;hl=en&amp;oe=UTF8&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=210679661112179870040.0004bf3ca1f5f363c45df&amp;ll=20.510088,19.335938&amp;spn=90.872767,242.578125&amp;t=m&amp;source=embed\">Nomadic People Worldwide<\/a> in a larger map<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our ancestors were nomads, but today, out of 6.8 billion people, only 30 million lead migratory lives. Summer Pasture\u00a0(tonight on\u00a0Independent Lens\u00a0at 10 PM \u00a0\u2014\u00a0check local listings\u00a0) spotlights a nomadic family in the grasslands of Dzachukha in eastern Tibet. Locho, his wife Yama, and their infant daughter depend on yaks for their survival, but Dzachukha is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":10173,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2273],"topic":[],"class_list":["post-5944","blog","type-blog","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-interactive-features"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nomads&#039; Land Interactive Map | Independent Lens | PBS<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In the Nomads&#039; Land Interactive Map, explore a sampling of nomadic people throughout the globe who maintain the peripatetic lifestyle despite its challenges.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dipsy.pbs.org\/independentlens\/blog\/nomads-land-interactive-map\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nomads&#039; 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