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Supporting Protected Areas for the Conservation of Ecosystem Services, Phase II (SPACES II) Biodiversity in Mongolia is crucial to its economy and culture with large areas of the country designated as protected. However, climate change and overuse are threatening forests and biodiversity. Intensive pasture farming is further destroying ecosystems and endangering natural resources such as soil and water. Nature and forest conservation is being hampered by limited administrative powers for protected and commercial forest areas, legal loopholes and poorly developed deforestation-free supply chains in the forestry sector. Mongolias forest area is large, but it contributes little to the economy. Objective Strategies for managing protected areas and forests in environmentally friendly, economically viable and gender-sensitive ways are being implemented in selected protected areas and are being supported by the population. |
