Many nomads are engaged in animal husbandry, crafts, or trade.
The flood plains banding the Indus along its lower hundreds of miles were covered until recently with rich forests, occupied by more than 500,000 people who engaged in animal husbandry, farming and forestry.
► European researchers engaged in animal research can let out a sigh of relief.
As a result, a great many ethnic minorities engaged in animal husbandry, while the Han peoples engaged primarily in agriculture, forming a different type of economy.
In addition to crop farming, the people in both study sites are engaged in animal husbandry, keeping cattle, sheep, goats and poultry.
Until recently, nearly 90% of the people were engaged in animal husbandry and depended almost entirely on the environmental resources in the headwaters of the Yellow, Yangtze and Mekong rivers for their livelihood and well-being.
Except for the influence of language and demographic factors, the low intermarriage rate of Tibetan and Kazakh may be related to the high proportion of the population engaged in animal husbandry.
Personal intimidation, such as calling researchers "torturers" in letters to neighbors, has increased in the last 18 months, says Mark Matfield, executive director of the Research Defence Society (RDS), which represents scientists engaged in animal research.
Prospective members should be actively engaged in animal disease research or research administration.
Although we did not formally assess exposure to endotoxin, we conducted an analysis stratifying the cohort into those who were engaged in animal husbandry and those who were not.
In line with this, the rate of nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses for workers engaged in animal slaughtering is more than twice as high as the US national average, and the number of cases with days away from work, job transfer, or restriction is almost three times the national average [ 2].
