Ulaanbaatar
Bio-diversity conservation project to run with German funding
PoliticsUlaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ A seminar ran October 14 to mark a launch of the Biodiversity and Adaptation to Climate Change Project, to be implemented in 2015-2020. The project has been resolved to be funded in a scope of the Mongolia-Germany Intergovernmental Agreement on Non-Refundable Aid, inked in 2013.
Government of Germany is donating 11.5 million EUR to the project, the Government of Mongolia will give funding of 6.65 billion MNT (2.92 million EUR).
State Secretary of the Ministry of Environment, Green Development and Tourism Ts.Tsengel opened the seminar and introduced four stages of the project: improving of management plans for special protection areas and nearby regions; implementation of approved management plans; strengthening of special protection area network on both national and regional levels; and cooperation in training, policy and research.
The project is, so far, the largest in terms of the areas with special protection, focuses on capacity-building in the areas, and aims at conserving biodiversity and promoting the sustainable livelihoods of the locals. The project’s first stage will involve central, eastern and Khangai regions, and will select and implement proposed minor project that meet the larger project’s objectives.
