At A Glance

The Response

The project will support the local government to set up an interdepartmental coordination mechanism, to develop an overall biodiversity conservation and action planning framework and to demonstrate sustainable livelihood development alternatives for local communities in critical areas for biodiversity.

Project Focus

Ø  A participatory biodiversity conservation management system for coordinated biodiversity conservation will be established and function;
Ø  A Biodiversity Action Plan (BAP) formulated by key stakeholders will be endorsed and implemented by the Alashan Government;
Ø  A baseline and monitoring framework for Alashan’s biodiversity with key indicators will be established;
Ø  Community support and demonstration activities for biodiversity conservation will be developed and tested;
Ø  Biodiversity awareness will be raised among key stakeholders in the Alashan region through public education, and other activities;

Cooperating Agency

Alashan League Government

Partners

1. Italian CETMA Consortium
2. International Fund for China Environment (IFCE)
3. Alashan SEE Ecological Association (SEE)
4. Chinese Research Academy of Environment Sciences (CRAES)

The Challenge

The landscape of the Alashan League of Inner Mongolia consists mainly of desert and grassland ecosystems. A large part of the human population is herders. The region’s biodiversity is rich in endemic and rare species but the ecosystems are fragile and the biodiversity resources are under pressure from overgrazing by goats, poaching, unregulated wildlife trade, infrastructure development and from irrigation and overexploitation of groundwater resources. At the same time local capacity, planning and enforcement measures need to be strengthened.