Uuganbadrakh Oyunkhishig, EDGE Fellow, has recently arrived in the UK, and will be working with ZSL for the next month on an internship scheme funded by the Student Conference for Conservation Science.
Uuganbadrakh is working on a project to research and conserve the unusual long-eared jerboa (Euchoreutes naso) in Mongolia, his home country. The long-eared jerboa is ranked 81 on our EDGE mammals list, and is threatened by human disturbance of its desert habitat as a result of increasing numbers of grazing livestock and illegal gold mining activities.
The Student Conference on Conservation Science is the only international conference aimed entirely at students. It helps young conservation scientists gain experience, learn new ideas and make contacts that will be valuable for their future careers. Over the past 10 years, the conference (held at Cambridge University) has hosted over 1,600 delegates from 106 countries worldwide.
Submitting his application for the SCCS internship in October last year, Uuganbadrakh hoped to spend his time at ZSL producing a policy paper from his research results, which will show how human activities are impacting small mammals in the Mongolian Gobi desert. Luckily his application was successful, and he is set to spend the next month working to produce this document, which will be aimed at the Mongolian Ministry for Nature, Environment and Tourism.
We hope that when Uuganbadrakh takes his research back to the Mongolian officials, it will help to encourage the protection of the Gobi desert, and its unusual inhabitants.
To support the EDGE Fellows conservation programme, training aspiring conservationists working on unique and threatened species, please donate here or become an EDGE Champion.
on March 26th, 2010 at 5:49 am
Hi Uuganaa.
Congratulations!
Good to know that you have received the internship from SCCS. I hope you enjoyed the conference in Cambridge as well. Good luck for your internship.
Buuvei
on March 26th, 2010 at 5:05 pm
Thank you very much.
I was very happy at last 4 days in Cambridge. This university is very fantastic. All building is part of university, such as department, research center, university service, teachers home, dormitory and so on. All building is great architecture creatures. I became many friends from everywhere in the world. It is very great opportinity as for me. I learned many things , such as modern conservation orientation, new idea and so on. I am very glad for doing internship in ZSL. I hope i will learn many things. Thank you for giving comment.
on March 28th, 2010 at 6:26 am
Sain uu? Uuganaa
I hope you listening and learning much good knowledge and experiences from students many countries and hope making many many friends for you, which is, is opening Mongolia and its nature for many people who only imagine Mongolia by Chinggis Khan. Be brave, be open, and be yourself. Good luck for your conference.
on March 30th, 2010 at 3:35 pm
Saina uu ? Bilgee ah.
Thank you very much for encouraging me. I will try my best to learn much things and obtain good experience. Right now I am doing internship in ZSL conservation programme about writing scientific paper by supporting University of Cambridge. As for me, it is good opportinity for continueing my research and increasing my career.