Ulaanbaatar
Heritage management plan for Burkhan Khaldun discussed
Environment
Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ On September 4, the Administration
for the Protection of the World Heritage Site - Great Burkhan Khaldun Mountain
and its surrounding sacred landscape - organized a multilateral meeting to
discuss the heritage management plan for Burkhan Khaldun. The meeting was attended by
representatives from the Tourism Policy Department of the Ministry of Environment
and Tourism, Cultural Heritage Department of the Ministry of Culture, Khan
Khentii Nature Reserve Administration, Institute of Archaeology of the Academy
of Sciences, National Center for Cultural Heritage, Mongolian National
Commission for UNESCO, and other stakeholders.
‘Great Burkhan Khaldun Mountain and its surrounding sacred
landscape’ was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site at the 39th session of
the World Heritage Committee in 2015 and all-stakeholder-inclusive development
of a management plan for the heritage site is of great importance in its conservation
and protection. The meeting participants underlined the
importance of coordinating the activities of the Burkhan Khaldun Protection
Administration which was established this year, in line with the National
Programs for Stone-built Cultural Heritages and Intangible Cultural Heritages and conducting
a detailed research of cultural monuments and registering them.
They also mentioned the necessity of involvement of government,
non-governmental organizations, private entities, local communities, and
foreign and local donor organizations in the research, conservation, and global
promotion of the heritage site associated with Chinggis Khaan.
At the meeting, Khan Khentii Nature Reserve Administration made a report on
the works it has carried out for the conservation of the heritage site and the Environment
Ministry Tourism Policy Department emphasized the necessity of
aligning the tourism support plan for the heritage site with the Eastern Region
Tourism Development Plan, while mentioning some activities such as the creation
of travel itineraries and campsites have already begun.
