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Transhumance in Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France. Transhumance is a type of pastoralism or nomadism, a seasonal movement of livestock between fixed summer and winter pastures. In montane regions (vertical transhumance), it implies movement between higher pastures in summer and lower valleys in winter. Herders have a permanent home, typically in ...
Alpine transhumance is transhumance as practiced in the Alps, that is, a seasonal droving of grazing livestock between the valleys in winter and the high mountain pastures in summer (German Alpwirtschaft, Almwirtschaft from the term for "seasonal mountain pasture", Alp, Alm). Transhumance is a traditional practice that has shaped much of the ...
Transhumance is an ancient Italian custom, by which large flocks of sheep in the mid fall were driven south from the hilly and mountainous regions of the Apennines to winter over in the more southern coastal plains of Apulia and, less commonly, Lazio.
Eastern Europe’s answer to the Camino ... the VT is a tethering of ancient trade and transhumance trails that now stretches 1,400km across the country. ... he was personally selected by the ...
Drover's Road near Latteridge, South Gloucestershire, England. A section of drover's road at Cotkerse near Blairlogie, Scotland. A drovers' road, drove road, droveway, or simply a drove, is a route for droving livestock on foot from one place to another, such as to market or between summer and winter pasture (see transhumance). [1]
In 1984, the introduction of milk quotas to reduce surpluses in Europe dealt the final blow to pastoral activity, the burons and the fourme d'estive. By 1990, transhumance from outside the Cantal represented almost half of the livestock summered in the Auvergne mountains. [2]
The High Alps are the parts of the Alps unsuitable for habitation or seasonal transhumance. This includes all regions higher than 3,000 m above sea level, as well as most regions between 2,500 m and 3,000 m ( Juf at 2,126 m is the highest permanently inhabited village in the Alps).
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