Second Range State Meeting of the CMS Central Asian Mammals Initiative

The Ministry for Environment and Tourism of Mongolia generously hosted the Second Range State Meeting of the CMS Central Asian Mammals Initiative (CAMI) on 25-28 September 2019 in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia as part of the Mongolian Wildlife Week.

The main objectives of this Range State Meeting were

• to discuss and review the findings of the above-mentioned study, and to develop a set of recommendations to promote transboundary conservation in those areas,
• to review implementation of the current Programme of Work 2014-2020; and
• to develop and agree on a new Programme of Work for CAMI covering the period 2020-2026 and update Resolution 11.24 for submission to CMS CoP13 which will take place in February 2020 in India.

The meeting was jointly organized by the CMS Secretariat, the Mongolian Government, the International Academy for Nature Conservation of the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN INA) as well as the Michael Succow Foundation with funding from the German Ministry of the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU).