Goal of the project
To ensure the long-term conservation of the biodiversity of Mongolia’s Altai-Sayan region by mitigating threats and encourage sustainable resource use practices by local communities

Immediate objectives
Immediate Objective 1: Biodiversity conservation objectives integrated into productive sector institutions and policies. (GEF Financed & Co-financed).
Immediate Objective 2: To strengthen “traditional” protected area-based approaches by expanding their scope to include the landscape around them.
Immediate Objective 3:To successfully demonstrate how to integrate biodiversity into resource management and economic development practice & Policy. (GEF Financed & Co-financed).
Immediate Objective 4: To implement a project that learns from it’s successes and failures and shares these lessons and replicates best practices effectively among it’s own stakeholders and with others.

Intended results/outcomes
Outcome 1: Governments policies, institutional arrangements and capacities are in place to mainstream landscape conservation into development plans in AS region.
Outcome 2: Reduction of threats to biodiversity from unsustainable use from local communities in the Altai Sayan region.