RESPONSIBLE AND CONSERVATION TOURISM IN MONGOLIA

As part of our conservation program, we also develop responsible conservation and community-based tourism activities in our project's areas and other areas of interest, with the aim to: 

• help diversity the source of income of local communities' members,

• raise local and international awareness about protection of the Khulan, Gobi wildlife and their habitat as a biodiversity and cultural heritage of Mongolia, 

• involve travelers in citizen science to help collect additional scientific data of use for our conservation program, 

• help decrease negative impacts of tourism activities by directly involving and empowering local communities' members as local guides that will be trained by our scientific team, 

• generate a Community Fund to support local communities and a Conservation Fund to support our and our Guardians of Nature's conservation initiatives. 

--> they are led by our organization's biologists/conservationists or local wildlife biologists or tourist guides working with us. Tourist guides working with us and leading some of our conservation tours have been trained by our scientific team;   

--> they all contribute to protection of endangered Gobi wildlife and their habitat as you will help our team in data collection applied to wildlife and biodiversity conservation (citizen science); 

--> proceeds will go to our Conservation Fund that will financially support our research and conservation program, and to our Community Fund to bring support to local communities of our project's areas; 

--> they support the local community of our study area by providing additional income to some members of the local community working with us as "wildlife and culture guides" and as local hosts; 

--> they support other conservation projects as we will stop to different national parks and reserves on the way to our study area; 

--> We are currently the only organization offering wildlife observation and citizen science tours for wildlife conservation in the Gobi Desert, helping enhance protection of the Mongolian Khulan, Gobi wildlife and the Gobi Desert ecosystem.