By Antonio Graceffo in Ulaanbaatar Mongolians talk of their country’s tens of millions of sheep, goats, horses, cows, camels and yaks as the “national wealth.” More than 40% of the population are herders, so the exceptionally extreme “dzud” weather that struck Mongolia during the past winter, taking the lives of at least 7mn, or 10%, of herded livestock—and possibly many more, the counting amid the “die off” is not yet over—has come as a crushing blow. The 2023/2024 dzud was perhaps the harshest experienced in nearly 50 years. The government determined that as many as 24mn animals were at risk…