Red Cross launches Emergency Appeal for Mongolia as extreme winter Dzud threatens livelihoods of...

Esoteric to most investors minus the "Fashion 13" and "Fashion Fatale", is how Mongolia's unique Winter crisis or “dzud” (pronounced ‘ZUHD), an extreme weather phenomenon characterized by summer drought followed by a prolonged winter of heavy snow with minus 40 to 59 degree temperatures, will impact Mongolia-based, haute-couture fashion houses. However, Mongolia's Red Cross, who appealed for $650k to help 2,740 at-risk families, reported that 70% of Mongolia's landscape is covered by snow, and 157k people belonging to herding houses in 17 of the country's 21 provinces are at risk. 40k-plus cows and other livestock have already died and this figure expects to rise in the freezing months ahead, affecting fashion-house Spring collections.

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