Ulaanbaatar
Transboundary protected areas agreed to be built
Environment
Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ The 8th meeting
of the Mongolia-Russia joint commission on Environmental Protection was held at
the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of Russia on November 8-10. State
Secretary of the Ministry of Environment and Tourism Ts.tsengel and Acting Head of Russian Federal
Service for Supervision of Natural Resources Amirkhan Amirkhanov co-chaired the
meeting at which a decision to jointly count the population of argali (wild sheep) around
the border area of Altai Mountains was made.
It is estimated that there currently
are 4872 heads of argali in the border areas between Mongolia and Russia, of which
3380 are in Mongolia and 1295 in Russia. More accurate numbers are expected
from the count.
Furthermore, the two countries have prior established the Mongol Daguur strictly protected area. Thus, the sides agreed to build more trans-boundary protected areas at specific places including Tunka-Khuvsgul and Siilkhem - Saylyugem.
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