Camel prices are rising in Rajasthan, in India’s arid west. But camel numbers have declined significantly, says a news story in The Hindu on 29 April 2008.

“The spiralling fuel prices changed it all,” says the leading Indian daily.

“In the past three years the price a camel can fetch when sold went up at least by three times. The camels are replacing tractors,” the paper quotes LIFE Network member Ilse Koehler-Rollefson.

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Pakistan is home to many different groups of pastoralists. Each group has developed its own breeds of camels, cattle, sheep, goats and donkeys.

Now Abdul Raziq, President of the NGO SAVES and member of the Department of Livestock Management at the University of Agriculture in Faisalabad, has produced a brief illustrated guide to some of these unique breeds.

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