Bio-diversity

The country had many state owned tree nurseries in northern Mongolia during the past socialist economy. But from 1990, when Mongolia started shifting to a market economy, the forestry sector has completely failed and practically all tree nurseries had to have closed down, except a few. With issuance of Community Forestry Regulations by Ministry of Nature and Environment in 1998, many communities in Selenge region are now interested in tree nurseries. The grantee of this project is one of them and received this grant to practice cultivation of Buckthorns fruit trees to contribute to conservation of local ecosystem and improvement of local livelihoods. About 10,000 fruit and other tree seedlings were raised for the first year. Establishment of tree nursery will be completed in 2006.

Mongolia