biodiversity, climate change, ecosystem services, forest logging, hunting, Livestock & Animal Husbandry, Natural resources, pastoralism, reindeer herders, tourism, unregulated mining, Mongolia
Challenges For Mongolia's Reindeer Herders

Mongolia's reindeer herders and their taiga homeland are today facing unprecedented challenges from unregulated mining, forest logging, loss of access to natural resources, tourism, and climate change. This publication addresses the current state of reindeer husbandry of northern Mongolia and presents recommendations from the Mongolian reindeer herders for improving the sustainability of reindeer herding and the management of pastures and their homeland.

Link: http://hqweb.unep.org/pdf/ChangingTaiga_scr.pdf
Added by View user profileSonia Hossain on April 2, 2012