Nyambayar Batbayar MSc.

Organisation

Wildlife science and conservation center of Mongolia

Field of expertise

Eurasian Black Vulture, Himalayan Vulture, Mongolian Saiga. Mongolia

• Experts - Large herbivores
• Country representatives
• Experts - Nature management, development and recovery
• Experts - Nature policy
• Experts - Vast landscapes and wilderness areas

Species

• Aegypius monachus - Eurasian Black Vulture
• Saiga tatarica - Saiga Antelope
• Gyps himalayensis - Himalayan Vulture

Countries

• Mongolia

Regions

• Altai
• Mongolian Semi desert
• Mongolian Steppe
• Altai Sayan
• Mongolian Desert
• Mongolia

About

Nyambayar Batbayar is director of the Wildlife Science and Conservation Center of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. He worked as a Mongolian Saiga project coordinator for WWF Mongolia until he went to a graduate study in USA. He spent nearly two years with this beautiful animals, recruited and coordinated first Saiga rangers from the very location, and drafted the first conservation plan for this species in Mongolia. Since then he has been observing conservation actions for this species while continuing my own work on vultures and other birds.

Mr. Batbayar: Saigas are not the only reason I want to join in LHNet. I also saw you have a database for the vultures. I study cinereous vultures in Mongolia and we have a monitoring site we have been observing this species since 2002. I travelled to South Korea where we can see largest congregation of wintering black vultures and had a project with Korean on conservation of this species in Mongolia and South Korea.

Education:

• PhD student, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, USA, since September 2009
• M.Sc. in Raptor Biology, Boise State University, Boise, Idaho, USA. 2004.
• B.Sc. in Biology, National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. 1998.

Awards:

• George Lynn Cross Graduate Scholarship, Department of Botany and Microbiology, University of Oklahoma, 2011
• Wildlife Conservation Society Research Fellowship, 2005

Employment and work experience:

• Director and Research biologist for the Wildlife Science and Conservation Center, since 2005
• Ornithologist at the Institute of Biology, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, since 2007
• The Peregrine Fund, Field biologist, 2000-2004
• Research biologist and project manager, WWF Mongolia Office, 1998 –1999.

Memberships:
American Ornithological Union, American Society of Mammalogists, Raptor Research Foundation, IUCN Pelican, Bat, and Crane Specialists Groups.

My activities

For LHNet I can offer advises in planning landscape level management and conservaton actions, and carry out field and desktop studies.