Carrying on the legacy

The takhi escaped extinction by a hair’s breadth. Now the reintroduced residual herds must be protected from key threats.

Achieving this is our primary goal.

However, it is crucial for success that the people in the vicinity of the Great Gobi B reserve support it.

With various activities for the 30th anniversary of the takhi reintroduction,

we want to create benefits for the families around the reserve.

Find out more in our newest Takhi Post.

„Christmas Fundraising“

Cashmere scarves and hats not only look stunning but also warm you in the cold winter. Give yourself or your loved ones an exclusive natural product for Christmas.

100% of the profit goes to the project “Sustainable Cashmere from the Mongolian Steppe” of the International Takhi Group.

This involves helping herders manage their pastures, promoting social justice, and enabling a decent economic income for local herders.

The herders share the idea and goals of the protected area and thus protect the Great Gobi B ecosystem, as well as the primordial wild horses.

Order your product at info@savethewildhorse.org, specifying the type of product, quantity, and color you want, as well as your shipping and billing address.

Orders are possible until November 07.

We wish you much joy with your cashmere product directly from the Mongolian steppe. You contribute to nature conservation and the protection of a unique nomadic culture.

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Herder cooperative in the Great Gobi B

In the Great Gobi B SPA wildlife and nomadic herders co-exist and share resources. To protect the pastures for wildlife and livestock, we encourage sustainable practices for pasture management. The management of the Great Gobi B SPA and ITG are now cooperating with the Sustainable Cashmere Union to support herders with their pasture management, promote social equity and a decent economic income for herders who live in and around the protected area.

Last week, the first meetings with herders of Bij and Perm bag, of Bugat Soum, Govi-Altai have taken place. The herders fully supported the idea of forming a local cooperative with the support of SCU, ITG and Great Gobi B SPA and put this intention directly into practice.

Congratulations to the cooperative leader, the board, the control committee and all members.

Let’s protect together the ecosystem of the Great Gobi B SPA – the basis of life and living space for people and animals in this area.

„We are friends of the mother earth, we are future rangers”

Under this motto, another field trip within the “Young Researcher 2022” program was organized in the Great Gobi B SPA. A total of 30 pupils from protected area buffer zone elementary schools visited the Great Gobi B SPA administration in Takhiin Tal together with their teachers. Our “young researchers” learned about the current weather and explored how to use ranger equipment like compasses and identified spoor pictures of different animals.

It was an exciting day for the children and their teachers in the Great Gobi B SPA.

Gobi Steppe Ungulate Count 2022

Last week, a highly motivated team counted wildlife in the Dzungarian Gobi Desert, with a special focus on steppe ungulates (gazelles, wild asses, and wild horses).

Wildlife counters included Great Gobi B SPA rangers, scientists from the National University of Mongolia, and an international science team from Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences and ITG. A total of 34 counters spent 7 days in the Gobi and applied a distance sampling approach. For this, the counters were released on hills in the Gobi and spent 24 hours alone. Meanwhile, they counted wildlife 6 times up to a distance of 4 km in all cardinal directions.

Spending the days and nights all alone in the Gobi was exciting and special for all participants.

The counters were supported by a well-organized kitchen team, which provided the food.

The rangers were provided with binoculars by Prague Zoo and received watches from the company Fossil, which were kindly engraved by jeweler Schwarcz. ITG financed the steppe ungulate count and the ITG Mongolia team organized the whole project with the help of the protected area management. The project was scientifically accompanied by several scientists from the Inland University in Norway under the leadership of Petra Kaczensky.

Now the data are being evaluated and soon the population sizes of the steppe ungulates can be estimated.

Many thanks to all who supported this exciting project!

30th anniversary of the reintroduction of wild horses

Last weekend, the reintroduction of wild horses in Mongolia was celebrated. The formerly extinct Przewalski’s horses were reintroduced successfully to their homeland 30 years ago. Almost 1’000 wild horses are living again in Mongolia: 423 in the Great Gobi B Strictly Protected Area, 433 in the Hustain National Park, and 138 in the Khomyn tal National Park. We would like to express our gratitude to all senior workers who dedicated their youth, the representatives of the employees working today, and international organizations and projects that cooperate for the reintroduction of the takhi.

World Ranger Day

Without the rangers of the Great Gobi B SPA, the protection of the takhi would not be possible. Today we celebrate their work!

Happy Naadam Festival!

Creative ways to get youth involved in conservation

Winners of a drama performance competition as part of the “YOUNG RESEARCHER PROGRAM” launched earlier this year by ITG and the administration of Great Gobi B visited Great Gobi B this week. Students from grades VI-IX performed a play they staged based on the book “Uugan, the takhi comes home“. The children performed in front of the takhi and learned more about the Great Gobi B ecosystem from researchers and rangers.

Contract with Mongolian government extended

Minister Bat-Erdene Bat-Ulziin of the Ministry of Nature, Environment and Tourism (MET) has just signed a 10-year Memorandum of Understanding with the International Takhi Group and handed it over to Batsukh Jamiyandorj, Executive Director of the International Takhi Group’s Mongolia office. Many thanks to the staff of the Special Protected Areas Authority for their continued cooperation in drafting and approving the MoU.

We look back with satisfaction and pride on 30 years of reintroducing the Wild Horse to Mongolia. The reintroduction proves that even critically endangered species of megafauna, even those that are extinct in the wild, can be saved. However, this rescue can succeed only if their original ecosystems are preserved and remain functional.

ITG is looking forward to many more years of fruitful cooperation with the Mongolian government to preserve the homeland of takhi.