Deep gratitude is owed to Country Directors of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation in Mongolia: Mr. Markus Dubach, Mr. Felix Fellmann, Mr. Markus Waldvogel, and Ms. Gabriella Spirli for the leadership and untiring support for building the national capacity to safeguard the health of Mongolian rangelands

Mongolia is amongst the fewer nations that preserved nomadic livestock husbandry. Nevertheless, the changes in the social, political and economic systems of the country have led to a steady increase in the number of livestock following the transfer of livestock to private ownership and the shift to a free market system. As a result, decrease in the frequency and distances of seasonal migrations of herder families and herds, have increased the pressure on rangelands and accelerated damages

Glaciers are an important component of nature, formed by precipitation in high mountainous areas. According to domestic and foreign researchers, the formation of glaciers in Mongolia is likely to be the result of a severe cold spell that lasted about 12,000 years ago. There are two types of glaciers on our planet: continental or Antarctica, Greenland, and mountain or alpine. There are only mountain glaciers in Mongolia

Today we have interviewed Enkh-Amgalan Tseelei, who is the National Coordinator for Green Gold – Animal Health Project (GGAHP) of Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) in Mongolia. She has close to two decades of experience in community-centered sustainable rangeland management in Mongolia and her team has played a key role in the development and promotion of collective rangeland management approaches among nomadic herders. Today’s interview is peculiar in the way that there will be more informal and close-to-heart angles.