Vision Mongolia is a safe home for wildlife and a place where present and future generations enjoy a high quality of life, living in harmony with nature. Conservation Targets and Goals The setting of conservation targets and goals further described below needs to be seen in the context of the unique potential Mongolia still offers for conserving and restoring biodiversity of global significance. Due to the low human population density, Mongolia is one of last true wilderness areas of global significance with large areas of relatively unfragmented and intact habitats, populated with unique assemblages of charismatic and keystone species such as snow leopard and gray wolf which play a fundamental role in maintaining, functioning and stability of the ecosystem and overall landscape, and allowing natural migration of large herds of ungulates such as the as Mongolian saiga and Mongolian gazelle. Despite this, the consequences of changing livestock herding techniques and the over-exploitation of land and plant resources, unregulated licensing for exploration and exploitation of mineral resources, coupled with effects of climate change lead to decline of wildlife habitat areas and loss of resources, becoming the main contributing factor to the increase of species to be categorized as endangered. In addition, the socio-economic transformation started since 1990 in Mongolia have changed livelihood of rural population which results continuously growing number of a livestock and increase of number of goat in herd structure. Researchers concluded that in 2000s only 20% of total pasture land were degraded, whilst in 2010 this number increased to 70% of total pastureland. However, it is not the case that is unrecoverable situation and those that are impacted pastureland have the potential to recover and be restored, which is not the case in many other parts of the world. The unique biodiversity values that Mongolia has to offer globally and the important niche and role WWF Mongolia has established among environmental NGOs in the country has been the main basis for defining what we will focus on over the next five years to make unique contributions to WWF Global Goals. The selection of the specific conservation targets and the respective long-term goals were developed based on the recommendations from the independent assessment on last conservation strategic plan. Both the conservation targets and goals are fully aligned with the WWF Network
Vision Mongolia is a safe home for wildlife and a place where present and future generations enjoy a high quality of life, living in harmony with nature. Conservation Targets and Goals The setting of conservation targets and goals further described below needs to be seen in the context of the unique potential Mongolia still offers for conserving and restoring biodiversity of global significance. Due to the low human population density, Mongolia is one of last true wilderness areas of global significance with large areas of relatively unfragmented and intact habitats, populated with unique assemblages of charismatic and keystone species such as snow leopard and gray wolf which play a fundamental role in maintaining, functioning and stability of the ecosystem and overall landscape, and allowing natural migration of large herds of ungulates such as the as Mongolian saiga and Mongolian gazelle. Despite this, the consequences of changing livestock herding techniques and the over-exploitation of land and plant resources, unregulated licensing for exploration and exploitation of mineral resources, coupled with effects of climate change lead to decline of wildlife habitat areas and loss of resources, becoming the main contributing factor to the increase of species to be categorized as endangered. In addition, the socio-economic transformation started since 1990 in Mongolia have changed livelihood of rural population which results continuously growing number of a livestock and increase of number of goat in herd structure. Researchers concluded that in 2000s only 20% of total pasture land were degraded, whilst in 2010 this number increased to 70% of total pastureland. However, it is not the case that is unrecoverable situation and those that are impacted pastureland have the potential to recover and be restored, which is not the case in many other parts of the world. The unique biodiversity values that Mongolia has to offer globally and the important niche and role WWF Mongolia has established among environmental NGOs in the country has been the main basis for defining what we will focus on over the next five years to make unique contributions to WWF Global Goals. The selection of the specific conservation targets and the respective long-term goals were developed based on the recommendations from the independent assessment on last conservation strategic plan. Both the conservation targets and goals are fully aligned with the WWF Network
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