Travel
Mongolia is one of the most extraordinary travel destinations in the world today. It presents one the greatest unspoiled continous tracts of wilderness on the planet, with pristine rivers, lakes and thriving wildlife. Many spectacular parts of Mongolia have been designated strictly protected areas and allow the traveller to enjoy wildlife on a scale unlike any other in all of Asia. Almost have the population lives a nomadic lifestyle moving their nomadic homes called Gers as they travel with their livestock. Almost every Mongolian has a relative who is a nomad and living with nature in the great outdoors Mongolia's way of life.
Mongolia is also one of the last horse based cultures and Mongolians are natural cowboys and cowgirls with children learning to ride as young three years old. Mongolian are tough but soft spoken and very hospitable and with an open door policy for travellers passing through.
The large cities and the capitol Ulan Baatar offer up to date emenities like internet cafes, western style supermarkets, discos, museums, and foreign cuisine.
Mongolia Land of Genghis Khan: Nature
http://acro.harvard.edu/GEI/mongolia_nature.html
Mongolia Natural Resources
http://countrystudies.us/mongolia/52.htm
Mongolia Agriculture
http://countrystudies.us/mongolia/53.htm
Mongolian
Climate
http://countrystudies.us/mongolia/34.htm
Eastern Mongolia’s Strictly Protected Areas
http://www.un-mongolia.mn/archives/wildher/dornod.htm
Khan Khentii Strictly Protected Area
http://www.un-mongolia.mn/archives/wildher/hentii.htm
Mongolia’s Conservation Challenges and Threats
http://www.un-mongolia.mn/archives/wildher/challenges.htm
Gobi Gurvansaikhan National Park
http://www.un-mongolia.mn/archives/wildher/gobigrv.htm
Uvs Lake Basin Strictly Protected Area
http://www.un-mongolia.mn/archives/wildher/uvs.htm
Endangered Species & Subspecies of Mongolian Wildlife
http://www.un-mongolia.mn/archives/wildher/appendix-a.htm
Animals in Mongolia
http://crustacea.nhm.org/gallery/mongolia2002_animals
Animal Info - Mongolia
http://www.animalinfo.org/country/mongolia.htm
Mongolian Biodiversity
http://natzoo.si.edu/Publications/ZooGoer/1997/5/mongoliasbiodiversity.cfm
World’s Oldest Horse Runs Free in Mongolia
http://www.gluckman.com/MongoHorse.html
Mongolian Wild Horse
http://www.mnzoo.org/animals/northern_trail/phorse_1.asp
Przewalski Horses, Wolves and Khulans in Mongolia
http://web.idrc.ca/en/ev-27993-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html
Snow Leopard Species Survival Plan
http://www.umich.edu/~esupdate/library/97.11-12/wharton.html
Snow Leopard Fact Sheet
http://www.felidtag.org/pages/Educational\FactSheets\snow_leopard.htm
Gobi Desert’s Exiled Bear
http://www.mongoliatoday.com/issue/7/mazaalai_bear.html
Conservation Case Study of the Gobi Bear
http://classweb.gmu.edu/pbalint/GobiBear.pdf
Mongolian Wild Camel Camelus Bactrianus
http://www.redlist.org/search/details.php?species=3707
http://www.lpzoo.com/tour/factsheets/mammals/bactrian_camel.html
Mongolian Wild Ass
http://www.yptenc.org.uk/docs/factsheets/animal_facts/asiatic_wild_ass.html
Mongolian Argali Sheep
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Ovis_ammon.html
Mongolian Gazelles
http://wcs.org/7411/?art=9726
Saiga, Mongolian Antelope
http://ecos.fws.gov/species_profile/SpeciesProfile?spcode=A063
Mongolian Reindeer
http://www.pitt.edu/~mabbott1/climate/mark/Images/Mongolia%20Image%20Pages/Reindeer.html
Sarah
Handyside Riding Mongolian Reindeer & Bactrian Camel
http://www2.kenyon.edu/Depts/Asian/handyside.htm
Pallas’ Cat Project in Mongolia
http://www.wildaboutcats.org/pallas.htm
Pallas Cat Fact Sheet
http://www.csew.com/felidtag/pages/Educational/FactSheets/pallas.htm
Mongolian Livestock, Five Main Animals
http://www.stanford.edu/~phoenixl/life.html
Mongolian Yak
http://www.fao.org/DOCREP/006/AD347E/ad347e0r.htm
Sheep Breeds of Mongolia
http://www.fao.org/ag/AGa/AGAP/FRG/FEEDback/War/u4900b/u4900b07.htm
Mongolian
Cashmere Goat Research
http://www.rps.psu.edu/0209/goat.html
Mongolian Dogs
http://www.mongoliatoday.com/issue/8/dog_intro.html
Wolves in Mongolia
http://www.wolf.org/wolf/learn/iwmag/2001/fall2001/fal2001a6.asp
Birds of Mongolia
http://www.camacdonald.com/birding/asiamongolia.htm
Saker Falcon
http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/saker_falcon.htm
Mongolian Eagle Hunters
http://www.c-allen.dircon.co.uk/MongolianMill.htm
Fish & Fisheries in Mongolia
http://www.fao.org/docrep/003/x2614e/x2614e11.htm
Mongolian Marmot
http://www.marmotburrow.ucla.edu/sibirica.html
Mongolian Gerbil
http://www.petermaas.nl/gerbils/
Lizards of the Northern Mongolian Deserts
http://www.bgu.ac.il/desert_ecology/ramon/Shenbrot/Semenovetal00.pdf
Mongolian Lakes, Rivers and Riparian Areas
http://www.un-mongolia.mn/archives/wildher/water.htm
Mongolian Rivers
http://www.mnec.org.mn/sgp/eriver.htm
Mongolia’s Uur River Near its Confluence with the Eg River
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/09/photogalleries/riverworld/photo5.html
Mongolian High Mountain Zone
http://www.un-mongolia.mn/archives/wildher/highmountain.htm
Khangai Mountains Conifer Forests
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/wildworld/profiles/photos/pa/pa0512a.html
Mongolian Forest Ecosystems
http://www.wwf.mn/documents/Forest%20ecosystems%20in%20MN%20-March04.pdf
Mongolia’s Desert Zone
http://www.un-mongolia.mn/archives/wildher/desert.htm
Gobi Desert, Mongolia
http://www.lonelyplanet.com/theme/deserts/deserts_gobi.htm
Desertification in Mongolia
http://www.rala.is/rade/ralareport/Batjargal.pdf
Desert Habitats Printouts
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/biomes/desert/desert.shtml
Land Use in Mongolia
http://csf.colorado.edu/ecolecon/2002/msg00887.html
Protecting Mongolia’s Grassland Steppes
http://web.idrc.ca/en/ev-27993-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html
Dinosaurs DinoData Geography Mongolia
http://www.dinodata.net/Dd/Namelist/GEO/Mongolia.htm
Oviraptsorosauria R. Barsbold, Academy of Science of Mongolia
http://darwin.apnet.com/dinosaur/barsbold.htm
The Polish-Mongolian Paleontological Expeditions
http://www.paleo.pan.pl/museum/mongol.htm
American Museum of Natural History:A History in the Desert: Dinosaurs in
the Desert
http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/expeditions/gobi/history.html
The
Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia
http://assets.cambridge.org/0521554764/sample/0521554764WS.pdf
Wildlife Conservation Society: Sustaining Wildlife & Traditional
Livelihoods in Mongolia
http://wcs.org/home/wild/Asia/mongolia/
Baby Snow Leopard at Bronx Zoo New York
http://www.bronxzoo.com/8964376/?art=69594
Academy of Natural Sciences - Mongolia Environment
http://www.acnatsci.org/research/kye/mongol1.html
The
Peregrine Fund Mongolia Conservation Project
http://www.peregrinefund.org/conserv_mongolia.html
http://www.peregrinefund.org/notes_nymba.html
Snow Leopards in Mongolia Irbis Enterprises Project
http://www.irbis-enterprises.com/slmong.html
World Wildlife Fund Mongolia
http://www.wwf.mn/about-mn.htm
Misc.
Meteor Tracking in Mongolia
http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~dfischer/leo98/trip.html
Mongolian Animal Stamps
http://www.uopt.com/auction/item_1591.html