Progress reports: The erosional impacts of grazing animals

A large part (40%) of the world’s land surface is rangeland, of which 80 % is in arid and semi-arid parts of the world (Branson et al., 1981) and much (34.5%) of the world’s land degradation is attributed to the grazing animal, especially in Africa, 49.2 % of that continent’s degradation, and Australasia (80.6%) (Oldeman et al., 1991). But the erosional