Ulaanbaatar
Road signs and cars donated for protection of Gobi Restricted Area
视频A ceremony was held on February 6 at the National Park of Ulaanbaatar to hand over three cars as contribution to solving the transport problem for preservation of Great Gobi Six – wild camels, Przewalski’s horses, wild asses, black tailed gazelles and Saiga antelopes.
The project was initiated by the Mongolian Motor Sports Federation. Members of the federation raised funds of MNT 30 million and brought together over 140 millwrights from 18 auto clubs to re-assemble customized UAZ-469, UAZ-452 and Toyota Land Cruiser and to make a hundred road signs, said the President of MMSF Mr G.Ganbold.
Great Gobi A strictly protected area was taken into state protection in 1975, as it is inhabited by endangered species such as the Gobi bears, wild camels, wild asses, black-tailed gazelles, bighorns, mountain goats and rare species of water birds, and was enlisted in the UNESCO World Network of Biosphere Reserves in 1991.
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