Temperate Asia
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How Will We Get There?
Our strategies include:
- Filling in the knowledge gaps on species and populations with research and long-term monitoring.
- Working with local communities, in coordination with government, to build or enhance new community governance institutions and strengthen capacity to ensure sustainable management of natural resources.
- Providing the science, strategies, and policies to ensure connectivity that permits large-scale wildlife movements across these enormous, last-of-the-wild landscapes.
- Implementing community ranger monitoring, SMART law enforcement, and multi-agency anti-poaching task forces to improve enforcement and combat poaching.
- Collaborating with industry, government, communities, and international lenders and conventions to find 'win-win' solutions—cutting-edge methods to monitor and mitigate development impacts on wildlife and ensure that roads and other infrastructure provide "net positive impacts" in these landscapes.
- Aiding the efforts of communities and government to cope with the impact of climate change and decrease the vulnerability of wildlife.
1 million-plus
WCS has worked on Mongolian gazelle conservation and management since 1998, conducting ground-breaking ecological and disease research, working on public education, helping to strengthen the country’s laws on hunting and wildlife trade, and training Mongolian authorities in enforcement techniques to address the unsustainable and illegal wildlife trade.
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