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Tsendsuren Byambaa was born in Mongolia’s remote Khovd Province in 1970.
Married with six children, Tsendsuren has been a herder with her husband since she was young.
Like many pastoral nomads in Western Mongolia, they move their camps with the seasons. In winter, they inhabit the slopes of Mt Khairkhan, which tops out at nearly 3100m of elevation. These forbidding, icy ranges are prime territory for snow leopards and their prey.
Dedicated to living in harmony with the unique biodiversity of her home, in 2009 Tsendsuren began participating in the Snow Leopard Enterprises (SLE) programme.
A community-based conservation initiative, the programme offers income opportunities to rural herders who ...to read the full story, including the below excerpt on the Lion's Share, please visit UNDP Shorthand Stories
In recognition of Covid-19’s world-altering effects, The Lion’s Share, and the Small Grants Programme, a corporate programme of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) that is implemented by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), launched a call for proposals in April 2020 to support communities dependent on wildlife-based tourism.
The nine recipients of grants from the ‘Covid-19 Response: Resilience in Wildlife Communities’ initiative were selected from over 1,600 proposals from organizations across 106 countries.
These projects have been working to build resilience in communities in wildlife-rich areas and support the continued protection of threatened wildlife in their last strongholds.
The Snow Leopard Conservation Foundation is one of the nine - and Tsendsuren and her community are part of these efforts.
...read more at UNDP Shorthand Stories