The Great Gobi B, in the Southern of Mongolia, in the ancient land of herders living in their gers, the felt tents that are the same as Gengis Khan’s age, where the only resources are the family and the livestock.

The area, and the Great Gobi A are two distinct parts of the GREAT GOBI STRICTLY PROTECTED AREA (SPA), established in 1975 that encompasses 53,000 km2 of delicate desert steppe and desert habitat.

In particular, the Great Gobi B, located in the Dzungarian Gobi on the borderline with China, is, and always has been, an important grazing area for nomadic herders and is best known for 2 Equid species: The “Takhi” - Przewalski’s horse (in fact Takhin Tal, the Great Gobi B’s headquarter, is a very important site for the reintroduction of the Takhi back into his native habitat) and the Asiatic wild ass.

Usually people picture the Gobi as a vast, flat landscape largely covered with sand, however sandy areas are rather rare: in the Gobi B the steppe is intermingled with small mountain ranges in the east and rolling hill in the west.

About 11,000 people live in the vicinity of the Gobi B and more than 100 families and their livestock use the park during the winter months and the spring and fall migration as natural pastures. At the moment, main income is from livestock breeding and trade but the high growth rate of the human population and the attraction towards urban centres has resulted in a sharp increase of nomad families around urban centres, intensifying grazing pressure in these areas.

Every day people struggle against the severe climate, the poverty, the desertification and the social isolation but, at the same time, they could live still in a land so wonderfully untouched.