Today we are launching the KHULAN CONSERVATION FUND.

A unique Conservation Fund to support conservation efforts towards protection of the Khulan population and its habitat in Mongolia's Gobi Desert rangelands. 

• The Khulan (Equus hemionus hemionus) represents the largest population of the Asiatic Wild Ass in the world. 

• Mongolia hosts about 80% of the global population of the Asiatic Wild Ass. 

• The South and Southeast regions of Mongolia's Gobi Desert support the largest population of the Khulan in Mongolia. 

• The Khulan plays a very important function in nature as a Gobi engineer species, digging water holes at dry water sources to access water located underneath the Gobi floor. These precious water holes benefit other Gobi species, wild and domestic. 

• Every year, Khulans migrate over 70,000 square kilometers, making them the land animals with the greatest migration distance on the planet! 

• Khulans' movements, which follow a nomadic pattern, contribute to maintain plant diversity and could help pastures to regenerate through undigested plants' seeds found in their dungs. 

• Khulans also help other species access vegetation by removing with their hooves dry and senescent vegetation. 

• The species also helps maintain food webs' balance. 

• and more ... 

The Khulan is a symbol of adaptation, resilience and regeneration. 

It also represents a local symbol of the cultural and biodiversity heritage of Mongolia.

The Khulan Conservation Fund aims to:

• Enhance protection of the Khulan population in Mongolia (which represents the largest population of the Asiatic Wild Ass in the world),

• Support local community conservation projects and initiatives, 

• Raise international awareness about protection of the Khulan and the Gobi Desert rangelands, 

• Reinforce cooperation and joint conservation initiatives towards protection of this species and its habitat. 

Increased donations and investments through the Khulan Conservation Fund will help perpetuate our own conservation and our joint-conservation activities in Mongolia, therefore significantly improving protection of the Khulan, its habitat and other Gobi key species, by working together with local communities of our projects' areas.