Local rangers, governments and people involvement

1) We improved our cooperation with rangers, sum governors and policemen of our study area and involved some more in our project. All rangers we met during this mission expressed again their support to this project and their strong wish to work with us for this species conservation. Some of them are now working with us since 2008 and some other since 2009. All provinces governors of this study area are also supporting this project and really wish to cooperate with us.

We are now collaborating with the following sums ('sums' = administrative subdivision):

Hovsgol sum, Khatanbulag sum, Khanbogd sum, Mandakh sum, and Saikhandulaan sum in the Ömnögobi aimag and Dornogobi aimag.

2) We are collaborating with rangers of the Khatanbulag sum since the summer 2008. As part of this cooperation, we provided to Mr. TERBISH Sh. - chef of rangers in the Khatanbulag sum - with note books and educational materials. He will also look for young herders and people interested in getting involved in the project, and will also collect himself some information and photographs that he will record on a notebook we donated to him (with 10 notebooks, 10 posters and 10 photographs for herders and people he knows). Information he will record will be added together with our own information in a commun report.

3) During the all mission most of people we met were very interested by this project and to get involved in throughout the year. We involved further people and families in our project and provided them with notebooks to record their own observations all over the year, plus some educational supports. One man, a famous teacher of our study area who is now retired, went with us for around 2 days in the field and is strongly interested to continue working with us. We also visited families and people who were already involved in the project before and discussed with them about information they recorded during the previous year: one man living in the Buddhist monastery Ölgii Khiid we know very well and who is working with us since the summer 2008 and record information and observations almost every year. One family living in the same Buddhist monastery is also collecting information for us since the summer 2009, and another family we know since the summer 2008 and we started to involve in our project this year as they moved to the countryside and will stay there all year round.  

4) we also involved further people, rangers and sum governors in the International Khulan Conservation Action Group (created in 2008 by the Association GOVIIN KHULAN) and in the Khulan Protection Group created by the Association GOVIIN KHULAN in 2010.