<div dir="ltr">Dear All<div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(13,13,13);font-family:Söhne,ui-sans-serif,system-ui,-apple-system,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Noto Sans",sans-serif,"Helvetica Neue",Arial,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Noto Color Emoji";font-size:16px">I met with MoFALI yesterday. The contact persons at MoFALI are Munkhnasan and Batmunkh. You can send the email or support letter to Munkhnasan (</span><a rel="noreferrer" style="border:0px solid rgb(227,227,227);box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Söhne,ui-sans-serif,system-ui,-apple-system,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Noto Sans",sans-serif,"Helvetica Neue",Arial,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Noto Color Emoji";font-size:16px">munkhnasan@mofa.gov.mn</a><span style="color:rgb(13,13,13);font-family:Söhne,ui-sans-serif,system-ui,-apple-system,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Noto Sans",sans-serif,"Helvetica Neue",Arial,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Noto Color Emoji";font-size:16px">) and Batmunkh (</span><a rel="noreferrer" style="border:0px solid rgb(227,227,227);box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Söhne,ui-sans-serif,system-ui,-apple-system,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Noto Sans",sans-serif,"Helvetica Neue",Arial,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Noto Color Emoji";font-size:16px">batmunkh@mofa.gov.mn</a><span style="color:rgb(13,13,13);font-family:Söhne,ui-sans-serif,system-ui,-apple-system,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Noto Sans",sans-serif,"Helvetica Neue",Arial,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Noto Color Emoji";font-size:16px">).</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(13,13,13);font-family:Söhne,ui-sans-serif,system-ui,-apple-system,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Noto Sans",sans-serif,"Helvetica Neue",Arial,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Noto Color Emoji";font-size:16px"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(13,13,13);font-family:Söhne,ui-sans-serif,system-ui,-apple-system,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Noto Sans",sans-serif,"Helvetica Neue",Arial,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Noto Color Emoji";font-size:16px"> The video will be ready soon by secretion of MoFALI.</span><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(13,13,13);font-family:Söhne,ui-sans-serif,system-ui,-apple-system,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Noto Sans",sans-serif,"Helvetica Neue",Arial,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Noto Color Emoji";font-size:16px"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(13,13,13);font-family:Söhne,ui-sans-serif,system-ui,-apple-system,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Noto Sans",sans-serif,"Helvetica Neue",Arial,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Noto Color Emoji";font-size:16px">thanks</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(13,13,13);font-family:Söhne,ui-sans-serif,system-ui,-apple-system,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Noto Sans",sans-serif,"Helvetica Neue",Arial,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Noto Color Emoji";font-size:16px"><br></span></div><div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="times new roman, serif">Best regards:<b><br></b></font></div><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="times new roman, serif">BURMAA DASHBAL </font></div><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="times new roman, serif"><br></font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="times new roman, serif">EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR </font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:"times new roman",serif">MONGOLIAN NATIONAL FEDERATION OF PASTURE USER GROUPS </span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,33,36)">Tokyo residence 6-606, Building 26, 3th khoroo,
Bayanzurkh district, </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,33,36)">Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia</span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="times new roman, serif"> (Tel) +976-98113747</font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font color="#000000" face="times new roman, serif"> (Mobile) +976-99893139</font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font color="#000000" face="times new roman, serif"> </font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"times new roman",serif">Web:</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"times new roman",serif"> </span><a href="http://www.greenmongolia.mn/" style="font-family:"times new roman",serif;color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">www.greenmongolia.mn</a></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, May 2, 2024 at 4:10 AM Francesca Pasetti <<a href="mailto:fpasettib@gmail.com" target="_blank">fpasettib@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:3pt 0cm 0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">Dear Igshaan,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:3pt 0cm 0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">First of all, I would like to congratulate the
whole LDN WG, and all those who collaborated in the design and conception of
these concise and easy to read short and well-done two documents cited in the letters!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:3pt 0cm 0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:3pt 0cm 0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">Really a plus for our IYRP purposes, and the
short summary is an excellent stimulation for all the other WGs!!!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:3pt 0cm 0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:3pt 0cm 0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">If I can, I allow myself to give some little
suggestions, if you all think they may be useful, and it is still time to consider
them:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:3pt 0cm 0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 18pt;text-align:justify;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">-<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="EN-GB">Priority nr
#5 <span style="color:black;background:yellow">Consider pastoralists deep connoisseurs and managers of
their land</span> and incorporate them in all decision-making on the use
and management of rangelands and ensure they have well-defined
legal and customary tenure and access rights.</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 18pt;text-align:justify;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 18pt;text-align:justify;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">-<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="EN-GB">Page 12 : Another
estimate shows that 20% of the world's native rangelands have been converted to
crops (EDF 2019). One notable exception is where livestock do not compete for
land with crop farming since they normally graze on pastures above the limits of
cultivation. <span style="background:yellow">Examples are
the camelids of South American highlands,</span> <span style="color:black;background:yellow">the yaks of the Himalayas and the
transhuming herds in the mountain areas of Europe</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p><p align="left" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 18pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">-<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="EN-GB">Page
19: Pastoral mobility has been legally recognized in a few countries, for
example, the formalization of the vías pecuarias in Spain<span style="background:aqua"> (Jefatura del Estado 1995) </span></span><span lang="EN-GB"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 18pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="background:yellow">Instead of Jefatura de Estado
1985 I would write:</span><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 18pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="background:yellow">Law
March 1995, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:rgb(0,0,238);background:yellow"><a href="https://www.boe.es/eli/es/l/1995/03/23/3" target="_blank">https://www.boe.es/eli/es/l/1995/03/23/3</a></span><span lang="EN-GB"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:3pt 0cm 0cm 18pt;text-align:justify;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p><p align="left" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 18pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">-<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="EN-GB">Page 23: Figure 6 <span style="background:yellow">Missing</span>: Multiple benefits of sustainable rangelands
and pastoralism (Source: IUCN 2017) </span></p><p align="left" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 18pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:3pt 0cm 0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span><span lang="EN-GB">In jellow what I am suggesting.
</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:3pt 0cm 0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span><span lang="EN-GB">In Page 12 I would
simply add also an example for Europe, as also in almost all European countries
pastoralists are not considered at all by decision makers</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:3pt 0cm 0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span><span lang="EN-GB">In Page 19 I suggest
to mention the Spanish law protecting the legally recognised transhumance (mobile
pastoralism) paths, as it is (as far as I know up to now) a unique example worldwide</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:3pt 0cm 0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:3pt 0cm 0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span><span lang="EN-GB">Of course I agree
with the letters, and hope they have the expected success</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:3pt 0cm 0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span><span lang="EN-GB">Kind regards</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:3pt 0cm 0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:3pt 0cm 0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span><span lang="EN-GB">Francesca</span></span></p></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><div>Francesca Pasetti Bombardella </div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:x-small">Co-chair Regional <a href="https://iyrp.info/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">IYRP </a> Support Group Europe </span></div><div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:x-small">Focal Point Spain Nomination </span><span style="font-size:x-small">Transhumance UNESCO ICH</span></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:x-small">International Projects Coordinator Concejo de la Mesta - Spain</span><span style="font-size:x-small"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="1">Coordinator Programma TRE Terre Rurali d'Europa<span style="font-size:small"> - </span><span>Spain</span></font></div><div><span style="letter-spacing:0pt;color:black;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="1"><span><font face="Helvetica">S</font></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">ecretary of the Transhumance and Transition UNESCO Club</span></font></span></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="1"><span style="letter-spacing:0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline">Facilitator of the ERASMUS + “Eco-</span><span style="letter-spacing:0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline">TransH</span><span style="letter-spacing:0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline">” project</span></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="1" color="#000000">Email: <a href="mailto:fpasettib@gmail.com" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">fpasettib@gmail.co</a>m</font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">El mié, 1 may 2024 a las 11:10, Igshaan Samuels (<<a href="mailto:isamuels@uwc.ac.za" target="_blank">isamuels@uwc.ac.za</a>>) escribió:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Dear GCG members<div><br></div><div>As you would know, the LDN working Group has made tremendous strides in developing a science-to-policy review paper as well as a 4 page policy brief based on the 8 recommendations highlighted in the review paper. This policy brief is currently being translated into different languages. The recommendations call on stakeholders incl. countries and CSOs to put into action processes that would be in support of the IYRP and in particular, issues relating to Land Degradation Neutrality. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Maryam is spearheading the process whereby we will follow up with UNCCD focal points reminding them of their country commitments but also to follow up on these commitments. </div><div><br></div><div>Could you perhaps give your approval to send out these letters to the relevant people and also comment on whether the process we will follow is appropriate. </div><div><br></div><div>May I have your comments by 7 May 2024? </div><div><br></div><div>Maryam will follow up on these letters through engaging the IYRP general list and RISG chairs. </div><div><br></div><div>Kind regards</div><div>Igshaan</div></div>
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