Mongolia’s Steppe Degrades

UlaanbaatarOver 100 million hectares of Mongolian rangeland are degraded.

That threatens the only livelihood many herding families in Mongolia have.

Soviet-era herd caps ended in the 1990s, and livestock nearly tripled while the grass they depend on did not.

Hustai park scientists are reseeding 24 native grasses ahead of COP17 talks in Ulaanbaatar.