28-006: Protecting Mongolias Gobi Desert for wild camels and herder communities (360G-cabinetoffice-G2-GA-202111544816-24-25)

The Great Gobi A Strictly Protected Area encompasses 44,630km2 of globally significant desert and is hometo the last population of Critically Endangered wild camel. Herders here face socio-ecological issues, includingovergrazing; rangeland degradation and waterhole loss, exacerbated by climate change. Government andcommunities lack mechanisms and resources to collaboratively tackle these threats. This project seeks toinstitutionalise robust evidence-based environmental management, implement scalable waterhole habitatmanagement, strengthen collaborative governance, enable community-led awareness-raising, improvesustainable rangeland management and herder livelihoods