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ARGALI OF ALTAI-SAYAN TO BE COUNTED

Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia /MONTSAME/ The Mongolian and Russian ecologists are counting all argali in Altay-Sayan eco-region. The Argali, or the mountain sheep /species Ovis ammon/, were listed as “rare” in 1987 and 1997 in the Mongolian Red Book. The staff of the National of park of Uvs lake Hollow and Russian National park of Altaiski will work together with Mongolia-based representatives of the World Wide Fund for nature /WWF/. The experts are to work three weeks in the Western region of Mongolia and in Russian Altai Republic and Tuva covering eights thousands square kilometers. As the WWF predicts, one thous. 200 argali are populating the Altai-Sayan eco-region. Ch.Enkhtuya

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