Why does the gobi desert exist

It snows well enough to support its livestock and wild animals. Dunes of this area are covered with snow in winter. The Gobi is still growing as a result of climate change and desertification. Gobi camel herders are losing its grassland.

The Desert has one of the most hospitable residents. Nomads always lack of visitors. Therefore, always welcome visitors pleasantly and give you food and lodging if you need it. The animals living in the Desert are various. You can see bears, camels, golden eagles, gazelles, Kulan Equus hemionus and even snow leopards. Also, rodents include marmot and reptiles. The Gobi is not one thing. But it comprises of 33 Gobi with different features and climate.

Gobi has canyon, flowery steppe, beautiful crags, wide hollows with few oases, saline and green saxaul thickets. Mongolian Gobi has one of the biggest and beautiful sand dunes called Khongoryn sand dune.

Its 6—12 kilometers wide, kilometers long and rising to a height of 80 meters ft maximum height to the apex can be meters ft. Ancient sub-species of the brown bear and only desert dwelling bear specie Mazaalai lives in the Mongolian Gobi. The plateau may receive as much as six inches of rainfall in a year, although the precipitation varies widely both in place and time. In the southern, drier part, it may receive no rain at all for years.

The plateau does have a few rivers near its eastern edge, and it has numerous oases fed primarily by mountain snowmelt in its basins. As in the Eastern Gobi Desert Steppe, the plateau's temperatures vary widely with the seasons. It has an extraordinary diversity of wildlife, with some species native only to the plateau.

Its plant community varies from minimal vegetation in the stone-covered areas to scattered shrubs and grasses in the most arid areas to forests along the rivers to reed beds in the low-lying wetlands.

Gobi Lakes Valley -- Situated to the north of the Alashan Plateau, the long and narrow Gobi Lakes Valley, covering about 53, square miles, lies in the midst of several mountain ranges.

Averaging about to feet in elevation, the valley has a few sand dunes interspersed with salt marshes, and it has several large, but often dry, lakes fed by intermittent rivers that rise in nearby mountains. The valley receives some two to eight inches of rain in an average year. It has dry, windy summers with comparatively moderate temperatures, and it has moderately cold winters, with temperatures that sometimes approach zero degrees Fahrenheit. Its wildlife community includes species adapted not only to the arid landscape but also to the wetlands, where water birds, amphibians and various reptiles have found a home.

Similarly the plants include species adapted to both the desert steppe and the wetlands environments. Junggar Basin Dzungarian Basin -- A ,square-mile expanse west of the Alashan Plateau, the Junggar Basin, somewhat like the Gobi Lakes Valley, lies in the midst of several mountain ranges, with broad openings to the northwest.

Its elevation ranges from about to feet above sea level. Its arid heartland receives about three to four inches of precipitation in an average year, supporting enough vegetation to stabilize most of its sand dunes.

Its margins, near the mountain ranges, receive four to ten inches of precipitation, which, with mountain runoff, sustain several basin lakes. It has moderate summers, but icy winters, when Siberian weather systems sweep through the northwestern openings and across the basin.

It sometimes has severe dust storms in the spring. Its wildlife population includes some of the world's rarest animals. Its plant community ranges from thin shrub lands of the central region to dwarf woodlands near the mountain flanks.

At one time, near the mountains, it had biologically rich meadows and wetlands near the foot of the mountains, but those have given way to irrigated farmlands within the past few centuries. It consists of an extensive and isolated mountain range and high ridges interlaced with desert basins. Have a question about travelling to North Korea?

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