Tugsu's workshop in Eastern Mongolia

I went to a conference in Dornod on July 19th, with a crew of Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) staff. ( On the picture left : Me, Ochiroo, Ann, Boloroo) The seminar was mainly organized by this new NGO with the help of WCS. The name of the NGO is The Eastern Mongolian Community Conservation Association that consists of herder communities that make contract and lease the land and protect the wildlife and the other natural resources in the area. It is very interesting but conflicting idea since the land ownership especially rangeland is illegal and some people think it conflicts with the nomadic culture. Anyways, the seminar took place for three days over the course of the weekend of July 20-22nd at the “Shaazan nuur” eco-camp. The camp is located on the reservoir lake“Kazakh nuur” in Bayantumen soum of Dornod aimag.

There were horses and lots of birds like swans and herons and they were so beautiful. The conference was very enjoyable and I made many friends with "herder community" leaders.


During the breaks we played ping-pong, pool and frisbee.





Afterwards we went back to Choibalsan the center of the Dornod aimag, and spent the night. Then the next day at 5 am we left the Dornod and was planning on getting to UB around 6 pm that day. Unfortunately, despite all the percautions we had multiple flat tires and spent the whole day fixing our tires and got out of Dornod around 12 o'clock midnight and got home.