The previous editor, Rogier Gruys, has moved onto new challenges and works now at the UNDP Country Office in Ulaanbaatar. Rogier remains still active in the conservation field of Mongolia. We hope that in a few months we can move to a new distribution list system based here in Ulaanbaatar, which will make it easier for us to send the Newsletter. The State Sanitary and Hygienic Laboratory confirmed that the contract is undergoing a routine verification by relevant authorities in Mongolia. Should the contract is approved, experts from the Laboratory will monitor the entire process of slaughtering, asserted its representative.
Stray dogs are a problem both for the capital city and the country in general.
Veterinary hospitals sterilized over 7,000 dogs last year only. Aware of the situation, some companies from North East Asian countries have offered to cooperate in this business since 1995 several times. No concrete requirements halted the smooth trading except one case, when a local company in Selenge aimag sold 200 dogs' skin and meat to China. And Criminals The Association for protecting livestock from wolves launched a wolf hunting raid last weekend. More than 100 hunters from the capital city left on Saturday and Sunday to Bornuur, Bayanchandman, Batsumber and Altanbulag directions bringing with them back eleven wolves as trophies, reports Unuudur.