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A journey with Greece's last nomadic shepherds
dw.com
02/03/2021
Dimitris Tosidis
The sustainable farming practice of herding sheep hundreds of kilometers dates back millennia. We meet the people keeping the tradition alive despite pressure from industrialized agriculture, tourism and climate change.
© Dimitris Tosidis
After decades of summers camping on Greece's Mount Smolikas, Eleni Tzima said 2020 would be their last
For the past 53 years Eleni Tzima and her husband Nasos Tzimas have herded their livestock some 150 kilometers (241 miles) between summer pastures in northwest Greece's isolated highlands down to their winter home in the lowlands.
The Tzimas family is part of a millennia-old tradition of transhumance, or the seasonal movement of animals between fixed grazing grounds. But it's a dying one: they are some of the last still practicing this way of farming in the country.

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