Biodiversity has become a fundamental concept in the development of policies for sustainable social and economic development. With the State Great Khural ratifying the Convention on Biological Diversity in 1993, Mongolia became the 30th nation to officially join this international agreement.
The Mongolian Government first passed the “National Strategic Action Plan for the Protection of Biodiversity” in 1996. The action plan comprises from 21 goals and 87 actions covering the research, protection, and sustainable use of biodiversity, together with goals for sector and cross-sectoral policy and regulation improvement. Two assessments have been made in the past concerning program implementation, with a study in 2010 concluding that 96% of the goals had been implemented, indicating that full implementation had been achieved (Batbold, Laurie 2002, Adiya et al., 2010).
