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| Ms. Fox will travel to the Ikh Nartiin Chuluu Nature Reserve in Mongolia in July of 2009 to study, sketch and photograph the endangered Argali, the world's largest mountain sheep. This is the ninth expedition fellowship under the AFC Flag Program.
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| Susan Fox Visits Takhi Release Sites in Mongolia |
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WNAG and Society of Animal Artists member Susan Fox spent three terrific weeks traveling around Mongolia in September and October of 2006. Images and commentary of her trip have just been posted to her website.
She visited two of the three places in Mongolia where endangered takhi, the world's only species of wild horse have been reintroduced.
The first was the Khomiin Tal reserve in the western part of the country, which is a buffer zone for Khar Us Nur National Park. The Khomiin Tal release project is the result of a thirty year effort by Dr. Claudia Feh of France, a 2004 Rolex Award for Enterprise Laureate. Susan was able to go out with one of the project scientists to observe and photograph some of the 22 horses that have been released there. The overland trip to the reserve from the city of Hovd was quite an adventure, traveling across the Great Mongolian Desert in a Russian Fergon van on dirt roads with a guide and professional driver and tent camping at night. She also got to take an impromptu camel ride on the way back, visit a herder ger and see a surface salt mine.
The second site was Hustai National Park, which is within easy driving distance of Ulaanbaatar, the capital. She spent two days "game driving" the park viewing a number of the 15 harems of takhi in the park. Hustai now has 191 horses. She also saw marel, a species of elk, Mongolian gazelle and a variety of birds. The Tuul Gol, which flows along the southern edge of the park is a famous birdwatching location.
Susan then flew down to Dalanzadgad to visit Gobi Gurvansaikhan National Park, where she saw ibex and lammergeier and stayed in an eco-ger camp. While in the Gobi, she also went to Bayanzag to see the saxual forest and watch the sun go down over the famous Flaming Cliffs, where Roy Chapman Andrews' Central Asiatic Expeditions of the 1920's found the first fossil dinosaur eggs.
Her last stop was Ikh Nartiin Chuluu Nature Reserve south of Ulaanbaatar, the location of the Earthwatch Institute project she participated in in spring of 2005. Animals observed included argali sheep, tolai hare and endangered cinereous vultures, the world's largest.
Susan will be participating in the Reflections of Nature wildife show in Fallbrook, California in May.
The first of her three part article on the horses of Mongolia will appear in the spring issue of Horses In Art magazine.
In March, she is giving a talk on takhi reintroduction in Mongolia at the Humboldt State University Natural History Museum and will be showing some of the paintings that have resulted from her trip. |
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