All ducks in a row

The League for Pastoral Peoples and Endogenous Livestock Development has taken the FAO global livestock distribution maps and added information on the pastoralist groups that keep each species. That goes with other fascinating interactive online maps they have on threats, migration routes, and more.

Which gives me the opportunity to point out that there is such a thing as duck pastoralism, for example in Tamil Nadu:

Ducks can walk a maximum of a kilometre a day. For longer distances, the rearer hires a lorry. Ducks from Tamil Nadu migrate as far as Mangalore and Bellary in Karnataka, Cuddapah in Andhra Pradesh and Ernakumlam in Cochin, and as far as Goa, 850 km away on the west coast. Small-scale rearers may pool their flocks and hire a lorry. The duck rearers often migrate with their families . Only school going children stay back in their native home with grandparents or relatives.

Distribution of ducks (green area) and duck pastoralist groups (green dots).

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