Holistic Planned Grazing & EOV in Mongolia: PLUS Project 2022 Recap

The "Pasture Land -- Use it Sustainably” (PLUS) project is a partnership between ADRA and the Savory Institute that seeks to introduce and consolidate the use and understanding of Holistic Planned Grazing among the herders and communities of the Ider Soum in the Zavkhan Province of Mongolia.
The project kicked off in 2021 with Savory's team working directly with herder families to restore degraded grasslands using Holistic Management, a human and nature-centered design and decision-making framework that results in socially sound, financially viable, and ecologically regenerative activities.
Through both virtual and in-person sessions, the Savory team has helped participants create Holistic Grazing Plans in addition to setting up land monitoring transects using Ecological Outcome Verification (EOV), an ecological monitoring protocol that tracks land health trends and informs ecologically-sound management decisions.
The majority of trainees and project participants are women herders, who are seen by community representatives as those leading the process to restore their grasslands and improve the management of their family herds. Through this project and others in development, Savory is aiming to regenerate 1 million hectares of Mongolia’s grasslands.

[@suegentry2913]

Great project!!

[@wendyscott8425]

How wonderful! I'd love to see pictures of these pastures after they've been properly managed and grazed regeneratively!

[@jonniricard5383]

This is fantastic!

[@anonperson3972]

Great news

[@MyMaya55]

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[@jamesdecross1035]

Do post updates, please.

[@westernbeavers]

Interesting, lovely to see the cooperation. Fencing though is so hard on wildlife. My understanding, that Mongolia is one of the few countries/regions that's virtually fence free and allowing for wildlife habitat connectivity. Seeing all of this field fencing being installed make me cringe. Is Savory recommending permanent fencing like this be installed as THE go to solution throughout all pasturelands?

[@SavoryInstitute]

The fencing is to create a demonstration plot to show the effects of proper animal impact and recovery periods. There is no intention of building fence across the Mongolian Steppe, but rather the plans are being co-developed with the herders to meet their context, which of course involves herding instead of fencing.

[@westernbeavers]

@@SavoryInstitute Wonderful. Thank you for the reply and more context here, and for the work of the Savory Institute. We have observed first hand the improvements to forage conditions and ecology of our local landscapes in the west, when producers implement these holistic practices advanced by Savory.

[@smrubelmedia]

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[@btudrus]

Adventists supporting grazing? Wow...

[@glenngray3966]

🎊 'promosm'