{"id":9771,"date":"2026-05-26T05:29:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T05:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=9771"},"modified":"2026-05-26T05:29:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T05:29:01","slug":"the-silent-demise-mongolias-fight-to-save-the-steppe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2026\/05\/26\/the-silent-demise-mongolias-fight-to-save-the-steppe\/","title":{"rendered":"The Silent Demise: Mongolia\u2019s Fight to Save the Steppe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Mongolia\u2019s iconic rangelands, which support half of the country\u2019s population through livestock pastoralism, are facing severe desertification. Research shows that nearly 80% of Mongolia&#8217;s land is now degraded due to a complex combination of overgrazing and climate change, with climate-linked factors like warming and precipitation shifts playing the dominant role. Analysts argue that existing government policy levers, such as livestock taxes focused solely on reducing herd sizes, have limited long-term efficacy and risk harming herders&#8217; livelihoods without addressing environmental root causes. Ultimately, as Mongolia takes up the presidency of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification in 2026, the nation faces a critical opportunity to reform its land management strategies to protect both its natural and cultural heritage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> April 15, 2026. <strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/earth.org\/the-silent-demise-mongolias-fight-to-save-the-steppe\/\">earth.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mongolia\u2019s iconic rangelands, which support half of the country\u2019s population through livestock pastoralism, are facing severe desertification. Research shows that nearly 80% of Mongolia&#8217;s land is now degraded due to a complex combination of overgrazing and climate change, with climate-linked factors like warming and precipitation shifts playing the dominant role. Analysts argue that existing government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":9773,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-crisis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9771"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9938,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9771\/revisions\/9938"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}