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| | Mongolia Cashmere |
 | | Threats to the biodiversity of Mongolia and therefore future growth are: overgrazing which leads to desertification, over exploitation of animals and plants, pollution, soil erosion, and loss of land to oil and mining. |
 | | One percent of Mongolia is severely effected by desertification, three percent is considerably effected, 21 percent is effected to a medium extent, and 75 percent of Mongolia's land mass is slightly effected by desertification. |
 | | Before the transformation, Mongolia had a ban on exports, which was much better for the environment than the current tax on exports because the new competition is leading to the realization that to make it, the herders need more animals. |
| www.american.edu /projects/mandala/TED/mongolia.htm (3231 words) |
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