00:00This is a huge success for Holland's habitat and expansion.
00:28This is a huge success for Holland's habitat and expansion.
00:58This is basically a Trans-Siberian Railroad.
01:05The portion going through Mongolia is the Trans-Mongolian Railroad, and it consists
01:11of 1,115 kilometers along the road in Mongolia.
01:18It has barbed wire fences on both sides of the railroad in order to protect collision
01:25with livestock, and this has created a total barrier for wildlife migratory species such
01:33as Holland, goiter gazelle, and Mongolian gazelle.
01:36By that time, Mongolia had large populations of wildlife and livestock, so at that time,
01:45the authorities didn't think it will create a migration barrier to the wildlife.
01:52Unfortunately, it did.
01:53So Holland remained only on the western part of the Trans-Siberian Railroad, and the ones
02:01existing on the east have gone extinct.
02:19The area we have worked to provide the biodiversity corridor is a total of 1.3 kilometers.
02:31So this corridor removed the barriers created from the railroad and will allow Holland,
02:38Mongolian gazelle, and goiter gazelle to cross onto the eastern steppe with no threats and
02:45with no mortalities.
02:461.3 kilometers is implemented by this project, and we hope to expand this, if possible, along
02:59the southern Gobi and Dorongobi provinces of Mongolia, which will be about 1,000 kilometers
03:08or close to 500 kilometers.
03:16We hope that Holland will expand their range going into the eastern steppe, and we hope
03:39that Mongolian gazelle, goiter gazelle, and other species will expand their range crossing
03:45from the east to west and west to east.
03:48They will expand their habitat, and their population size will increase.
03:55That's our hope.
03:57And generations of Mongolians will enjoy seeing this spectacular migration of ungulates in
04:03Mongolia, which is the last in, actually, Central Asia.
04:10So we hope to keep this spectacle in Mongolia for a long time.
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