Nomadic herders Lkhagvajav Bish, 90, and her son, Tsahiur Rentsenkhorloo, stand outside their ger in northeastern Mongolia. "All I can do is watch my grassland disappear," says Bish. The culprits ...

As the cashmere market has soared in recent decades, so too has the number of goats grazing on Mongolia’s grasslands. There are now an estimated 27 million of them, meaning they outnumber people ...

Mongolia’s grasslands store around 14-15 million tonnes of carbon and are home to a variety of wildlife including argali sheep, gazelles and endangered Saiga antelope, and yet they are one of ...

An example just from just six weeks ago is Mongolia. Mongolia contains the world’s most extensive temperate grasslands – spanning an astounding 30 million hectares or an area almost the size ...