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Herders scooping murky water from a small pond in grasslands in South Sudan are well aware of the dangers they face if they drink it.

Herders sometimes favor hybridization because genes from wild progenitors are thought to enhance the hardiness of domestic stock.

Herders like Abdul Hussein used to farm patches of land themselves, or source cheap fodder from rice farmers.

“A community depending on livestock without grazing land. I have cows with no grass and water. Herders intimidated and beaten … where do we go and what do we feed our children?”

Herders circulate the iconic wetland, fabled to have been the biblical Garden of Eden, looking for trickles of fresh water to save their animals.