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Our Team: Central Asian Great Bustard Project
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Our team's master's students, after a long day of bustard research. We train and support young Mongolian researchers. Photo: G. Natsag. The Central Asian Great Bustard Project was initiated in 2005 to address a critical lack of information about declining populations of this species in Central Asia. The results of pilot work in Mongolia and Kazakhstan, involving extensive ground surveys and interviews of local people, only increased our concern about the status of these populations. Director and Research...
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Outreach: Central Asian Great Bustard Project
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We work both formally and informally with rural children. Here, Nominzayaa, a neighbor at one of our research sites, joins the team in scoping for bustards, using optics donated by Celestron. Photo: A. Kessler. We carry out our programs for schoolchildren in the network of EcoClubs established by the Taimen Conservation Fund and The Tributary Fund, with the in-kind support of equipment manufacturers Celestron and Microwave Telemetry. Our undergraduate researcher from 2007, B. Dashnyam, graduated and ...
