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		<title>in a process of translation into english</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:15:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gantsatsral.M</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Монгол бол дэлхийн дулаарлаас болж хамгийн их хэлмэгдэж байгаа улс.]]></category>

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		<title>The City Air Pollution is Getting Citizens Slowly Used to Death</title>
		<link>http://en.nomadgreen.org/archives/2010/02/26/4860/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 05:44:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Optimus</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Pollution and Toxics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Хотын утаа. Энэ нь ард иргэдийг нийтэд нь аажим үхэлд дасгаж байгаатай утга нэг]]></category>

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Smoke is composed of half burned materials or a fog with chemical factories’ garbage in it and it is dangerous to our health. An invisible different type of smoke affects human health even more dangerously which is a sore gas and aerosols.  
A big city atmosphere is crowded [...]]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://photobucket.com/images/%25d0%25a3%25d1%2582%25d0%25b0%25d0%25b0%25d0%25bd%25d0%25b1%25d0%25b0%25d0%25b0%25d1%2582%25d0%25b0%25d1%2580" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.miniih.com/miniiblog/nomart/files/mong-09-1438.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://photobucket.com/images/%25d0%25a3%25d1%2582%25d0%25b0%25d0%25b0%25d0%25bd%25d0%25b1%25d0%25b0%25d0%25b0%25d1%2582%25d0%25b0%25d1%2580" target="_blank"></a>Smoke is composed of half burned materials or a fog with chemical factories’ garbage in it and it is dangerous to our health. An invisible different type of smoke affects human health even more dangerously which is a sore gas and aerosols.  <span id="more-4860"></span></p>
<p>A big city atmosphere is crowded with tons of gases from cars and from the ger districts and it is affected by the suns infra-red rays. After this process the pollution gets worse.</p>
<p>The aftermath affects our physiology, such as breathing, eyesight shock and Asthma and heart problems. If this continues, the reasons for death will increase along with the diseases.</p>
<p>Today our capital has a new name “<em><strong>Utaanbaatar</strong></em>”, which means “<em><strong>city of dense smoke</strong></em>”  and in the winter we just talk about it and forget it in the summer. This is like getting us used to death slowly but what is even more frightening is the infant death toll. The number is very big in Mongolia. So in order to have a baby, couples must plan the pregnancy period without crossing winter months. Or even temporary transfer to rural provinces.</p>
<p>So the basic right mentioned in the Constitution, to live healthy, is not being supported.</p>
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		<title>Isn’t it Time that We Stop the Illegal Trading of Endangered Species?</title>
		<link>http://en.nomadgreen.org/archives/2010/02/18/5490/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:34:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gantsatsral.M</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Animal Right]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Translated by Azaa &#124; Proofread by Mackensie)
It is said that having a marmot’s liver once a month helps heal the broken bones&#8230; ”
“Eating marmot kidneys once in two weeks is good for health…” 
Advertisements like these are very popular among Mongolians and have become almost like myths. Unfortunately these thoughts don’t seem to be as [...]]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://nomadgreen.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/argali.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-5494" src="http://nomadgreen.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/argali-150x150.jpg" alt="www.biology.ucoz.com-оос авав" width="168" height="168" /></a><em>It is said that having a marmot’s liver once a month helps heal the broken bones&#8230; ”</em></p>
<p><em>“Eating marmot kidneys once in two weeks is good for health…” </em><span id="more-5490"></span></p>
<p>Advertisements like these are very popular among Mongolians and have become almost like myths. Unfortunately these thoughts don’t seem to be as effective as they are said to be.  In the end, only state protected animals are harmed and hunted. There is no doubt that their skin becomes accessories, liver and internal organs become medicines, fats and meats become traditional dishes and they are filling the needs and interests of people who cherish money and meat.</p>
<p>Citizens and NGOs (Non Governmental Organizations) organizing protests, referring to certain officials, using media even suing does not bring precise successes.<br />
“Human rights, development” center’s supporting people’s participation in environmental issues projects manager, lawyer Delgermaa.Ch mentioned that the government worker’s corruption and government policies with no sense of environmental rights and pressures are factors that are difficult to solve.</p>
<p>Mongolia has joined a convention for trading rare and endangered animals and plants in 1996. The purpose of the convention is to make sure that trading above mentioned plants and animals does not harm their existence. About 30 thousand Mongolian species were included in the convention and approximately 5 thousand are animals and 28 thousand are extremely rare plants.<br />
It is interesting to note what kinds of measures are taken and punishments are given to people who have hunted rare species of animals. NPCC environment control agent Badamkhand.J stated in local TV that “It is not certain what kinds of punishments are given to people who broke the law and hunted forbidden animals”. The reason is after arresting poachers the case is taken over by police and after a while the case vanishes. And almost nobody knows what had happened to the poachers.</p>
<p>In 2004 a Vietnamese citizen was arrested by the police while trying to cross the border with bear organs illegally. At the time the case was investigated by detectives but in a while it all went silent. Also, recently Arabian Shahs are meddling around in Mongolia. Almost everyone heard about rich Arabians with white scarves and thick beards are buying extremely rare falcons and “stepping on” Mongolian law. It is a shame that Mongolians are bowing down in front of wealthy foreigners who are underestimating the law of Mongolia.</p>
<p><a href="http://nomadgreen.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/tahi.jpg"><img class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-5498" src="http://nomadgreen.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/tahi-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a>We can see, in the case of the poachers, that if the law forbids an action it takes place secretly. They sell hunted male gazelles for 45 thousand tugrik (10,000 tugrik= $7.00 or 5 €), females for 52 thousand tugrik, offspring for 68 thousand tugriks. A fox is only 10 thousand tugriks; a wolf is bought for 120 thousand and is sold for 200 thousand. Wolf tongues cost 15 thousand tugriks and the liver costs 10 thousand tugriks. A marmot is sold for 35 thousand tugriks and it goes on. The price increase of animal raw materials is the reason for extinction.</p>
<p>Once increasing in every forest around Mongolia, the khaliun deer, whose population reached 130 thousand in 1970-1980 (Dulamtseren.S “Mongolian animal kingdom” 2nd edition 1989), has decreased 98% in the past 20 years and now the population barely reaches 10 thousand. Therefore, protecting Mongolia’s animal resource has become a vital issue and researchers and scientists are looking for a way to solve it. State protecting animals according to their kinds and species have reached certain levels but scientists believe that protecting them within their own environment is more close to reality.<br />
<a href="http://nomadgreen.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/zeer.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-5499" src="http://nomadgreen.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/zeer-150x150.jpg" alt="www.biology.ucoz.com-oos avav" width="270" height="270" /></a><br />
Presently there are 21.5 million hectares of land belonging to 60 state protected areas. The one we know the best is the Khustai national park. Khustai area was previously used by herders who headed towards the city from the west leaving the land ruined in some places. Cleaning this area after its domestic animal use helped it to become a better environment and in the last 10 years deer, brown gazelle, wild hogs, wild sheep, Mongolian marmots, grey wolves, and yellow foxes are very often seen in the area. Also, white gazelle packs that hadn’t been seen for over 50 years were seen in the area. And now the pack inhabits the area. We must remind you, however, that even though this example shows a light at the end of the tunnel, if the market for meat, fur and animal medicine still openly exists, the number of endangered animals will decrease. If we don’t find the illegal traders and poachers and take measures against them, Mongolia just might become a country with no wild animals.<a href="http://nomadgreen.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/chono.jpg"><img class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-5500" src="http://nomadgreen.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/chono-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="221" height="221" /></a></p>
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		<title>West Mongolian rivers contain over limit phosphorite</title>
		<link>http://en.nomadgreen.org/archives/2010/02/16/5765/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 05:52:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ariunbulag</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[манай улсын гол нуурын бохирдолтын шалтгаан нь дээр дурьдагдсан эудрофикац буюу нууранд замаг хэт их ургаснаас үүдэлтэй]]></category>

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There is research that says in just over 10 years; in 2020 the whole world will face a lack of pure water. Furthermore, in 2025 1.8 billion people are expected to die due to water shortages. The area with a lack of pure water includes Mongolia. Therefore, this topic [...]]]></description>
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<p>There is research that says in just over 10 years; in 2020 the whole world will face a lack of pure water. Furthermore, in 2025 1.8 billion people are expected to die due to water shortages. The area with a lack of pure water includes Mongolia. Therefore, this topic must be examined. <span id="more-5765"></span><br />
The topic for the open seminar organized by the Mongolian-Japanese center on 30th of January 2010 was Mongolian river pollution and related issues. Professional environment workers are giving lectures by people’s request. This time Soninkhishig.n, director of NUM Biology faculty, plant research center has given a presentation and exchanged points of views with others. The presentation mentioned:</p>
<p>-“The hydro-ecosystem includes lakes, ponds, river and its ingredients, coast and bottom forms. Ecosystem also means from micro organisms which we can see through microscopes to biospheres or the surface of earth and everything on it. Humans use water for drinking, agriculture, watering fields, water animals and also building dams and hydro-power plants. Also we hunt fishes and birds for food and medical purposes and plants for feeding. So therefore, the issue of protecting the environment in order to keep the multi-form of the ecosystem is rising.</p>
<p>23% of the earth surface is covered with water. So we feel like we will never experience water deficit. Water deficit has 2 reasons:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">1. The speed of self-cleaning process of the water is not as fast as the speed of pollution.<br />
2. Water pollution /though water is available it is not usable.</p>
<p>There are a lot of reasons for water pollution. Some of them are:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">*Water acidity /acid process/<br />
*Building dams to close lakes for agriculture purposes<br />
*Eutrophication /water becomes green/<br />
*Inhabiting foreign organisms in the lake and native animals die<br />
*Negative storing<br />
*Pollution of hazardous chemicals</p>
<p>As for our case, eutrophication is the reason in Mongolia. The origin of the pollution is not certain, so the effect takes place long and is hard to handle and restore. During this process oxygen-level effectively decreases in the water because of phosphor, nitrate and other chemicals increase and coast soil breaks into the water. This directly influences mammals and fishes in the water.</p>
<p>The dead fish in river Tuul has the same explanation. If the nitrate increases in the water MICROCYSTINE fungus also increases and poisons from the plant can poison animals and humans to death.</p>
<p>Industrial garbage, agriculture leftovers, domestic garbage, humidity, farming and fishing are the factors of fungus, since the 1990’s the fungus has increased notably. Our country has defined a goal for developing agriculture and collected tremendous amounts of wheat but on the other hand a lot of water sources and rivers were polluted and is not able to be used.<br />
Professor Soninkhishig.N and his team of researchers has performed a hydrological tests in over 100 rivers around Mongolia and came up with the result that amount of phosphor is over the world average. Factors of increased phosphor are:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">*Increased number of livestock<br />
*Urbanized nomads<br />
*Ruined grasslands<br />
*Climate change</p>
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		<title>We Protect Our Native Mongolian Employees</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 05:11:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>battuya</dc:creator>
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Invested by China, “Petro China Dachin Tamsag” Mongolian company, gets oil by drilling in Tamsag valley in Dornod aimag /province/, is called Dachin amongst native people. Few days ago, two unfortunate men died in oil field in Tamsag. One was a brother-in-law of the other. According to an announcement [...]]]></description>
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<p>Invested by China, “Petro China Dachin Tamsag” Mongolian company, gets oil by drilling in Tamsag valley in Dornod aimag /province/, is called <strong>Dachin</strong> amongst native people. Few days ago, two unfortunate men died in oil field in Tamsag. One was a brother-in-law of the other. According to an announcement of Dachin company, it said that two men died because of alky(over-drinking). One was died at the stage of drinking alky, but the other was died on a way to local hospital.<span id="more-5822"></span></p>
<p>We are informed by many bad news related to these drilling companies such as: explosion of cistern, alcoholization of Chinese beverage, death of many people in drill holes… When will these tragedies be over? Besides, there are great number of drill holes in Tamsag valley, which are 40-50 meter deep and left without recovering.</p>
<p>We allowed foreigners to come and use our precious land with its natural wealth, but we shouldn’t sacrifice our men’s lives. Mongolian employees get less salary than Chinese, while Mongolians&#8217; working or living conditions are worse and uncomfortable. No matter how many times our delegates and inspectors from the Government visit these kind of companies, they do nothing at all like they have no ears and eyes. It can be one obvious example that our high ranking people do not have hearts to understand our native people, their lives and their work.</p>
<p>A group of people have started “to act” to protect the welfare of Mongolian workers since last year, since the officials do not solve these problems.</p>
<p>An announcement of requirements was submitted to “Petro China Dachin Tamsag” LLC on behalf of a number of people including Munkhtur P, Head of Transportation Regulatory Department of Dornod province; Batbaatar Yu, Director of Dornod Branch of Khas Bank; Ganbat S, Director of “Arigu” LLC; and Badarch S, Leader of Best Trainers Association of Horse race.</p>
<p>“Petro China Dachin Tamsag” LLC /Mongolian/ hired over 600 Mongolian employees mediating through “CAML” foreign invested company, but the salary per person is only 150 thousand tugrug /around 100 us dollars &#8211; a month. Although, Chinese worker gets a floating salary between six hundred thousand to one million tugrug monthly. It is quite unfair. The group of people demanded to improve living and working condition of Mongolian employees as Chinese do. Also they started to collect signatures from local residents who support this claim.</p>
<p>It is a vital and important event that representatives have already started their movement to protect Mongolian citizens and their rights and interests.</p>
<p>Lately, it is good to say that the number of activities like above mentioned are expanding day by day and NGOs and their operation are getting more and more active. It will help abolish bribery and corruption in Mongolia someday.</p>
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		<title>Mongolians deplete their sacred animal &#8211; Wolf</title>
		<link>http://en.nomadgreen.org/archives/2010/02/07/5697/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 15:46:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gerelmaa</dc:creator>
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We often read and hear ads via multimedia such as: to buy liver of boar; wolf liver, brain, and stomach; and marmot kidney etc. Behind it, there is a wish to be healed or recover despite its avail. But it seems much cruel that human beings kill other living [...]]]></description>
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<p>We often read and hear ads via multimedia such as: to buy liver of boar; wolf liver, brain, and stomach; and marmot kidney etc. Behind it, there is a wish to be healed or recover despite its avail. But it seems much cruel that human beings kill other living creatures in order to secure his/her liveliness.<span id="more-5697"></span></p>
<p>People say an animal feels its death in its bones, thus it spreads its whole body. In other words, antiparticle of organ of dead animal does not help human beings heal themselves, instead it is counter-productive. Also, wild animal does have an elemental virus to human immunity and medical science warns that it is dangerous to eat or use animal meat raw or unboiled and uncooked.</p>
<p>Modern meditators advice not to use or wear fur coat and leather clothes. Because, it is considered that those animals had their own fate once before and if you wear it, you will have to carry it too. Nature gives us a life. It is equal for human being and living creature to live.</p>
<p>As a result of human greediness and evil thoughts, many kinds of beast and birds are sacrificed and destroyed completely as well. In Mongolia, we eliminated number of species of animals which were listed in <a href="http://www.iucnredlist.org/">Red Book</a>.</p>
<p>Voracious men hunt deer, she deer, bear, marmot, sable chasing after their velvet antler, musk, womb, testicle, hug, fur, and skin. Unfortunately, those animals are getting rare today.</p>
<p>The real hunters who used to hunt wild animals would pray for the nature and beg so strong in order to eat and make clothes in previous time, but they still prohibited themselves from hunting during fertilizing and nursing period, mating season, in their lair, gathering, the best of herds, rare animal with remarkable sign, and nest and offsprings totally.</p>
<p>But today this prohibition is forgotten and become lawlessness among modern people who can drive wherever they want and hunt whatever they wish to hunt.</p>
<p><strong>According to “Daily News” /Jan 27 2010/, it says that one customs officer revealed a man who tried to pass border hiding 64 frozen wolf inside truck tires</strong>.</p>
<p>Mongolians worship and are proud of wolves while taking it as a good omen, but we kill them and hunt them vulgarly. People say “… wolf is considered as a magic animal, of which all organs are curing and balmy. If someone has a stomachache, one should eat wolf stomach. If you have a headache, you should have a wolf brain. So, there is nothing to waste from wolf”.</p>
<p><strong>When I called following one ad to sell wolf brain on the paper, someone replied me to come and take it. </strong>He said he would show me wolf skull to guarantee it. This kind of business is much successful near some biggest hospitals. Sellers advice you how to use its organs like decent doctors.</p>
<p>Few years ago, the government and local authorities ordered to hunt wolves greatly, because of its danger to livestock and excessive quantity. But today it is quite different time and life is changed. Now the quantity of wolf does not increased, but it is obvious that their prey is decreased because of human hunting.</p>
<p>Europeans and Americans annihilated their wolves, and we should not make same mistake. Killing wolves in large quantity forms a condition for beasts to grow and spreads infectious disease originated from wild animal. At the end, these countries had to relocate wolves spending enormous expense.</p>
<p>According to convention item, wolf is considered as a rear predator which should not be hunted or killed internationally. Mongolia joined to this convention. If nation intends to hunt wolf in order to export it, one should get an approval from international organization. But Mongolia has not been responsible for its duty and international procedure.</p>
<p>It is noted in history that the nature takes revenge, if anyone treats it atrociously time to time. For instance, someone hunted a wolf today. But tomorrow other wolves will surely attack his courtyard.</p>
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		<title>Our Pasturelands Have Become Seriously Degraded- Let’s Restore the Forgotten Traditions and Keep the Pasture-lands</title>
		<link>http://en.nomadgreen.org/archives/2010/02/02/3549/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 08:17:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gantsatsral.M</dc:creator>
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 The 20-year democracy has brought some highly new changes in Mongolian livestock husbandry. We have gone on to a market economy and privatized the community livestock. In this way, the people who want to increase their head of livestock have increased to 97,000.
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<p><a href="http://nomadgreen.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/mal-middle.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-5704" src="http://nomadgreen.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/mal-middle-300x199.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="199" /></a> The 20-year democracy has brought some highly new changes in Mongolian livestock husbandry. We have gone on to a market economy and privatized the community livestock. In this way, the people who want to increase their head of livestock have increased to 97,000.<span id="more-3549"></span></p>
<p>On the one side, the reason of this increase is that a lot of manufacturers closed their doors so the number of the unemployed grew. The unemployed tend livestock in order to make their bread and butter. As a result, natural free resources in public property- non-scheduled pasture-land consumption started. Pasture-land collapse has started from this time.</p>
<p>Suitable relationship between livestock, stockbreeders and pasture-land has been lost. Actually, Mongolia has 156.4 m hectare area, 112.8 m hectare out of which is pasture-land and haymaking area. Only the  livestock husbandry sector manufactures 21% of gross domestic products and 80% of agricultural products, and provides 1/3 of the working force with work and produces products worth 627.3 billion tugrug.  In fact, the livestock husbandry sector plays a key role in providing working place and becoming the source of living standards. Is there any policy on conservancy and preservation?</p>
<p>“The main factor of pasture-land collapse is bad technology which to preserve and keep the pasture-land. Also, we need good management of pasture-land and legal condition due to the market economic society.” explained PhDoc Dorligsuren.D, the manager of “Green Gold” project.</p>
<p>The reason of pasture-land collapse is:</p>
<ul>
<li>Natural      disaster</li>
<li>Flood</li>
<li>Drought</li>
<li>The      excess of pasture-land</li>
<li>Ill      disposed usage of it</li>
<li>Greed      of pasture-land usage</li>
<li>Not      to move because of water</li>
<li>No      remediation of mining</li>
<li>Affect      of pest</li>
<li>The      luck of water supply etc</li>
</ul>
<p>This thought that our beautiful natural scenery and pasture-land are collapsing because of these factors made me sad. The eco-balance has been lost entirely. What a pity!</p>
<p>Stockbreeders set up their winter quarters, spring quarters wherever they want. In this way, the boundary of pasture-land season has been taken away.  In addition to this, the tradition to move to another place according to the seasons might be lost. Pasture-land has collapsed because there is no relaxing of the pasture-land when plants grow again. 1-5 km area around the water point grinds down, and the area without plant has been increasing. Also, plant heights are up to 3-5 cm and variety of plants is poorer than area which are enriched with weed plants that animal don’t eat.</p>
<p>Due to water point and settled areas in livestock over centralization, grazing capacity overrun 1.3-11.4 times more. As a result, this area is becoming impossible for herding animals. Mining companies don’t do remediation so the pasture-land also has been destroyed. There is so much evidence that is related to this wrongful consumption. By not doing remediation, many rivers have dried up.</p>
<p>By leaving 812,000 hectares of land fallow, which are suitable to livestock husbandry, soil erosion and drought has increased.   When the soil surface flies in the spring wind, nearby areas or pasture-lands have been covered with dry sand, then it is impossible to grow plants in the area.</p>
<p><a href="../wp-content/uploads/2010/02/mal-middle11.jpg"></a>To pasture so many livestock in over-grazing capacity areas makes negative impacts on pasture-land. It has become a factor of droughts and soil erosion. Also, pasture-land collapse affects head of livestock, its benefits and human living standards even further.  Pasture-land which amounts to 70-80% of Mongolian land has collapsed and droughts have been an eco-catastrophe. So, it is our priority to prevent this sort of economic and social disaster and to have suitable livestock which is suitable for pasture-land in order to enhance the country’s stable development.  The measure of pasture-land in Mongolia is 130,000-140,000 hectares in area.  According to the average of the last 72 years in this area, it is estimated that 23.9 m livestock by 123-140 stockbreeders has pastured in this area. On the other side, under the estimate of grazing capacity which determines approximately 113-115 hectare pasture-land usage and crop in a hectare during 60-70 years, the average ecologic capacity that contains livestock amounts to 51.8 million sheep is possible now. We think that the most influential factor that influences negative impact on pasture-land is goat. But our view was wrong. The benefit of cashmere making goats caused an increase in the head of goats. Although the goat makes a negative impact on pasture-land collapse, it has not been decided to decrease the head of goats. The pasture-land grind down has become the most serious problem for stockbreeders.  According to the stockbreeders, movement from other aimaks plays a role in affecting pasture-land. Also, the government should make projects to set up encampment zone and its control.</p>
<p>One of the positive influences in livestock husbandry is natural conditions and all things such as livestock and pasture are controlled by natural law. But feature of 5 types of domestic animals is they live according to the eco-condition. Most seniors say that it is time to restore the traditional animal husbandry.</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 05:55:18 +0000</pubDate>
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We have been talking about juvenile delinquency and its increase everyday understanding it is related to messy political situations, and all kinds of violence and fornication via television programs.  However, medical science gives a different possible explanation for the problem of juvenile delinquency.
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<p><a href="http://nomadgreen.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/тоглоом.jpeg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-5646" title="тоглоом" src="http://nomadgreen.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/тоглоом.jpeg" alt="" width="116" height="120" /></a>We have been talking about juvenile delinquency and its increase everyday understanding it is related to messy political situations, and all kinds of violence and fornication via television programs.  However, medical science gives a different possible explanation for the problem of juvenile delinquency.<span id="more-5578"></span></p>
<p>When we were children, there weren’t many television programs and shows like today. So we used to play with shuttlecocks made out of lead. Also we had toy soldiers made out of lead and competed with each other to have the most. When we were children and even now we use lead in everyday life. For instance, lead is included in home utensils, hair dye, fuel, water, glass etc. It is obvious that lead emits poison not only through our skin but even in the air we breathe, which saturates to our very cells. Most dangerous to human health is peeling paint and the resulting paint chips. Because paint is crumbled and becomes smaller, finally it is saturated into the human body. It raises lead levels in blood tissue. We don’t mind our toddlers playing with some dried paint fallen off the window or door. Or we give them toys made by lead avoiding their voices or cry. But, these toys and paint make our precious children ill and poisoned.</p>
<p>World Health Organization puts more attention to toxic lead, since the science has determined the lead is considered as the most toxic substance or heavy metal in the world. Five years ago, Chinese doctors and pediatricians diagnosed about 15 thousand children and output was a certain alarm among medical science. Over 80 per cent of those children had excessive level of lead in their body. For this reason, Government of USA decided to renovate and sanitize children’s home, who were poisoned by lead. In Thailand, 500 thousand people are suffering from high blood pressure, of which over 400 have died. The main reason is lead.</p>
<p>We can say that Mongolia is the same as this country. We breathe polluted air and use or eat a variety of products, foods and beverage everyday not knowing that they contain lead, because we cannot see it.</p>
<p>Thirty four per cent of air pollution of our city is directly connected to car poisonous fume. Noxious fumes include great amounts of lead. In Ulaanbaatar city, lead is 4.5 times more than action level in ground and 2.3 times in air.</p>
<p>Lately, at our market, we sell and buy cheaper paint, fuel and other products which are concrete where those imported from. Majority of imported products are from China. Although Russia is listed at first place amongst other countries, in other words it started in 1920 to use an innocuous substance, but today Russia undergoes market crisis chasing after benefit.</p>
<p>Unfortunately it is the same in the People’s Republic of China. Both our neighboring countries do not wish to decrease the manufacturing of products with lead.</p>
<p>There is almost no one, who researches or analyzes the lead and its quality, which threatens worldwide. We give some hypotension pill to our elder people and send our children to special schools if they are disabled. Are we solving this critical issue on lead?</p>
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<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Sweepers can not get their salary&#8221; …said journalists. Some high ranking people decided to raise their(street sweepers) salary following order 182 on August 24 in 2006. But till now the order is still not realized in reality. Sweepers get a salary worth 108 thousand tugrug /less than 100 USD/month, but it is possible to raise it to 150 thousand tugrug”</em></p></blockquote>
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<p><strong> </strong>I read this paragraph from news.gogo.mn website on 23 December in 2009. Then I wanted to know or ask sweepers in person. So I met and interviewed to Mrs.Altantogoo who is responsible for Chingeltei district of Ulaanbaatar city.</p>
<p>Note: She didn’t want her photo published and I respected her will. Pictures are taken from a website.</p>
<p><strong>Hello, how are you?</strong><br />
Hello. I am fine, thanks.<br />
<strong> What is your name, please?</strong><br />
My name is Altantogoo.<br />
<strong> How many years have you been working as a street sweeper?</strong><br />
I have been working for almost three years in Chingeltei district.<br />
<strong> What time does your work start and finish?</strong><br />
Well, at 5:30 in the morning I have to be at my working place. I finish my work at 18:30. But in winter, we have to work for 24 hours a day, because of heavy snow.<br />
<strong> Well, your working hour continues from 5:30am to 18:30. It means you work for twelve hours and thirty minutes a day. Is that right?</strong><br />
Well, we have lunch break between 11am-13pm. Right after 13 clock, we get to work again. But sometimes, we work in group,<br />
<strong> Can you explain about it a bit?</strong><br />
If some of us face difficulty in their sweeping, for example, the road is covered by heavy snow and it is tough to sweep, we unite alltogether, let’s say eight to ten people, and cooperate in that area.<br />
<strong> In other words, you people help each other?</strong><br />
Oh, yes yes.<br />
<strong> You say that we work hard and for 24 hours a day. This exceeds working hours /8 hours a day/. Do you get extra wage for it or do you have bonus for this occasional condition?</strong><br />
We don’t get anything. But we get our salaries on time. I have never get an extra money for extra work. During last two weeks, we could not rest at all.<br />
<strong> It was caused by heavy snow, wasn&#8217;t it?</strong><br />
Yes. Because of heavy snow and ice on roads, we are busy now. But in summer time, we work part time on Wednesday and on Sunday we rest in shift. Unfortunately, we can not rest in winter.<br />
<strong> Do you raise your voice or request for extra money according to Labour Law, when you work for 24 hours a day?</strong><br />
We’ve never talked about it. I think it is nice, when our heads give us 20-30 thousand tugrug /around 20 USD/ depending on ceremony or national festival.<br />
<strong> Can I ask about your salary then, if you don’t mind? If it is your personal secret, you don’t have to answer my question.</strong><br />
It is not a secret. I get 130 thousand tugrug for my salary in month. /about 100 USD/<br />
<strong> The minimum sum of salary per employee is not less than 108 thousand tugrug monthly. So, how many tugrug do you get exactly on your hand?</strong><br />
Except health and social insurance, I get around 108 thousand tugrug exactly.<br />
<strong> Is it enough for your living?</strong><br />
Well, I have to spend it till my next salary.<br />
<strong> Do you have a family? Is there any other income for your family?</strong><br />
I have a family. I am married and my husband and i work together. When it is time, both of us get our salaries at once. We have to economize till our next income. Few months ago, we couldn’t get our salaries on time. It was really tough for us. But now it is okey. We can get our salaries on time. So I don’t think other things.<br />
<strong> Did you know why your salary was delayed?</strong><br />
It was related to our company. During that time, there was so called Waste Fund and it took all the money within itself. So we couldn’t get our salary, I heard. But there isn’t such fund and we are able to getour salary on time now. There is no problem then.<br />
<strong> Do you have children?</strong><br />
Yes, I have three.<br />
<strong> Do you have a student child?</strong><br />
No. they go to school now.<br />
<strong> How do you think that our citizens and population of our city respect your work? Do you think we respect and understand you people? I think it is horrible to throw waste away right after you sweep?</strong><br />
People are so strange. They throw their waste all over the street. It doesn’t matter where they are. Our company do have a waste tracks which have certain direction to collect waste and trash. People should not throw their waste away in street. If they throw it away open, then some homeless people dig it and it looks so bad. We have to sweep and clean roads and streets everyday because of irresponsible people again and again. It is too bad.<br />
<strong> Besides our country, people in abroad sort their waste out and waste tracks collect them. Have you ever heard about sorting out?</strong><br />
Yes, I heard. But our Mongolians do not do it like them.<br />
<strong> Luckily, there are many coalition and movements in our country to protect the nature. They raise their voices domestically and at international stage as well. They write many important articles and activities to protect our motherland. If we sort waste out, it will be easier for you people, I think. What do you think?</strong><br />
Of course it will be easier and cleaner in our environment. It depends people’s mind and their behaviour. In winter, there are less waste. But in summer, you can find waste all over the streets and squars.<br />
<strong> What kind of tools do you have to sweep?</strong><br />
I have one waste trolley, one broom, and one poker. Our company delivers us all of them.<br />
<strong> Is there any certain period, in which you should keep and use all of them? How long do you have to use this waste trolley?</strong><br />
I must use this trolley for three years at least. During this period, I should not lose it, and break it. Some sweepers use it for more than three years I heard.<br />
<strong> Is it firm to keep in that period?</strong><br />
It is firm. But in winter it gets frozen and I have to be careful to carry.<br />
<strong> What will happen if you lose them or break them?</strong><br />
I have to pay for it. For example, this waste trolley is worth over 130 thousand tugrug. /equal to her salary in month/ But if any driver breaks it by his/her car, he/she has to pay. Or we inform his/her office and get compensation for it.<br />
<strong> Have you ever lost or break it?</strong><br />
No.<br />
<strong> Do you know that where these trolley are imported or what the exact price?</strong><br />
No, I don’t know at all. I guess from China maybe.<br />
<strong> Thank you very much for your time and for the interview. What would you like to say to our readers and all people in Ulaanbaatar city?</strong><br />
Do not throw your waste open, please. Particularly, some rude drivers throw their waste through their car window. I think there is little box to put his/her waste in their cars. It is so bad and I get hurt when drivers throw beverage bottle, handkerchief, rest of cigarets through their car window, right after I sweep and clean roads and streets. Sometimes I can not stand it and say those drivers “Just do not!”, but they just ignore me. They have to be responsible for their environment and care for others, I think.</p>
<p><strong>I would like to express my gratitude for all of you, who try to clean streets and sweep roads from dawn to evening. I wish you goodluck and success to your work. Thank you very much …</strong> I said and the interview is over.</p>
<p>People! Do not throw your waste open. Please respect these sweepers labour everyday. Let’s sort waste out. It is time to pay more attention to our nature and environment.</p>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 15:44:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Otgonsuren Jargal</dc:creator>
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It is nice for everyone to have a wish at the start of new year. So almost at the start of each year, words from planetary movement experts and zodiac researchers who foresee the condition of coming 2010 is very salable.
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<p><a rel="attachment wp-att-5350" href="http://nomadgreen.org/archives/2010/01/10/5311/02-3/"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-5350" title="02" src="http://nomadgreen.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/02.jpg" alt="02" width="237" height="245" /></a>It is nice for everyone to have a wish at the start of new year. So almost at the start of each year, words from planetary movement experts and zodiac researchers who foresee the condition of coming 2010 is very salable.<span id="more-5311"></span></p>
<p>First day of the year I decided to share some interesting presumption which I read when surfing on internet with our readers. It said that 2010 is the start of big changes. Maybe you believe that in a few years the world will be destroyed in 2012 and will even vanish; great disaster will occur and almost no one can survive in the low land. But we are calm because we do not know what will happen tomorrow. We think, the world will explode one day but not tomorrow.</p>
<p>Why did the astrologist, zodiac researchers and oracular say the big change will occur in 2012? I seek explanation about it. There are a few say that it is time to discharge of wrong-doings.</p>
<p>Some oracular and ezoterics (people research the latent world and explain it in connection to subconscious information of the mind. ) explain, “Human had been very rude in the relationship with nature. Human cut its muscle and dig its abdomen  and desolate all wealth, so it is time to discharge of wrong-doings. One day, the world will tumble and will clean itself. It can be understood that wealthy people who profit from gold-digging will pay back in these days. But people who do not dig gold and earn nothing will also be swept away together (but oracular say people who has trust in God, make meditation, pray and do good things for public will suffer less damage from the disaster.</p>
<p>So green activists that protect nature resources and local lands will have their blessings.</p>
<p>Now the humanity is safe but they are worrying about the coming danger. Floods, droughts, and blights occur worldwide. Every country has its own problems.</p>
<p>When we talk about it, we imagine the future and fear. One day, furious wave will wipe out the world surface and human will disappear as a little chip. Is it horrible? There is no understanding that wealthy people will be safe because they earned a lot of treasure. Lobby will not serve here.</p>
<p>This is the imagination from the oracular’s saying, that at the end all this process and preconception, precaution says that the generation who was proud of occupying the nature is over. Now it reminds us the time has come to protect and save the nature and strengthen the recovery approach.</p>
<p>Now let us be interest in how planetary researchers explain about 2012. They say (via www.acumind.com) the wind of change will start in 2012. Because Uranus will integrate with Pluto creating the cutting rectangle 44 years ago and they studied how this planetary process affects human life.</p>
<p>44 years ago from now is 1966 when Uranus met Pluto. The grade of the edge and the time elapse of the integration of these two planets have very big influence to the world. From 1966 when two planets met in bad location many big changes occurred that changed the society and the world. For example,  public contest against Vietnam war evolved and war and military conflicts start in other countries.</p>
<p>Also,  sex revolution as casual and chaotic sex that blemish couples&#8217; relationship and abet people into dishonesty  also started from this time. However, homosexual relationship also became open from this time. Now homosexual marriage is agreed in a few countries. It shows the real implementation of democratic principle that respects minority rights.</p>
<p>Special planetary occurrence happened 44 years ago brought to humanity big changes mentioned above. But they said the Uranus and Pluto integration in 2012 will bring more extended changes. These changes are not all bad, while there are also some pleasant news including the coming 2012 as the year of big change.</p>
<p><strong>The number three-symbol of sudden change</strong></p>
<p>2010: 2+0+1+0=3. This year express the number three.</p>
<p>What we will expect from it?</p>
<p>Please sit steady and fasten your belt. 2010 is the year of most progressive activity and explosion in last 49 year. Why? Because the sum of number 2010 is 3 and it is the symbol of start, of new birth and of new progress. Creative work like public policy will take new stage and sudden change will bring  in the finance and defense social sector.</p>
<p>The world come out of financial crisis and individuals do not depend on government’s old rules anymore. Generally, people will be released from normal structure and old style of life, and do not depend on any  authority and dictator and new event will evolve regularly. Life and society will change dramatically. 2010 is not the same as other past years, otherwise it will be those other years bringing big changes to the world in 2012.</p>
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