📋 Tender Overview
A working group set up by the Parliaments Standing Committee on Environment Food and Agriculture to monitor the implementation of the Law on Special Protected Areas and develop recommendations today together with members of the sub-working group visited the Bogd Khan Uul Strictly Protected Area. The operating conditions were reviewed within the scope of the function. In addition based on the information and research of the protected areas the information of the relevant organizations was heard and the organizations exchanged and clarified the information.The purpose of the working groups visit to the protected areas is to clarify the protection status of the protected areas and the issues that need to be addressed in the future. There are 32.7 million hectares of land in 120 special protected areas in Mongolia which is about 21 percent of the total area.The head of the working group J.Batjargal a member of the State Great Hural said There are issues to pay attention to when reviewing information on the current situation in protected areas as well as on-site visits. In this context the legal environment will be further improved and the Law on Special Protected Areas will be improved in accordance with the Constitution and the Law on Administrative and Territorial Units and Their Management.Among the national protected areas Bogd Khan Uul Strictly Protected Area Gorkhi-Terelj National Park and Khuvsgul National Park have been issued land use certificates and 97 percent of the total land use area has been issued. Therefore special care should be taken to ensure that these areas are not re-licensed and not expanded. The focus will be on bringing existing healthy areas into the buffer zone expanding the size of the protected area and preserving its originality as much as possible. The working group will work to address these issues and make recommendations.The working group visited Bogd Khan Uul Strictly Protected Area Nukhtiin Am Jargalant Am Taini Am Turgen Am and Tashgai Am in Bogd Khan Uul Strictly Protected Area. During this time N. Purevjav acting head of the Bogd Khan Uul Strictly Protected Area Administration said that he would issue a land use certificate for tourism in the Strictly Protected Area and conduct tourism activities but if he did not stop building and selling houses and changing protected areas. The animals will not be able to spread and the people of the capital will not be able to travel to Bogd Khan Mountain.Next Monday the working group will work on land use of the Gorkhi-Terelj National Park and other issues within the working groups responsibilities. In addition to working in the countryside he will also meet with representatives of citizens businesses organizations and non-governmental organizations according to the Media and Public Relations Department of the State Great Hural.
