Ellen Martine Heuser

After the @fao Field Trip, 14-15 August continued with the @iyrp2026 Global Pastoralists Gathering and Conference in Ulaanbaatar where the main goal on the 15th, after presentations and summaries on discussions on Youth- and Women’s Pastoralists Declarations on the 14th, was to finalize the

‘Ulaanbaatar Declaration: Global pastoralists and Indigenous pastoralists’ call to action’

which has been presented at the @cop17mongolia @unccd RESTORING LAND. RESTORING HOPE. COP17 taking place right now from August 17-28 2026.

Crucial for the finalization of the Declaration was the voices of a number of Pastoralists themsleves who gathered at the conference. On the next day more than 130 pastoralists - including Mongolian nomads, unable to attend in Ulaanbaatar - gathered for the World Pastoralist Assembly (WPA) organized by the World Alliance of Mobile Indigenous Peoples and Pastoralists (WAMIP) @wamip.global in Gorkhi Terenji in the Tüv Province of Mongolia on August 16 2026.

Here are pictures from both sessions and two attempts to document some of the oral traditions I was lucky to be presented to.

A special thanks for my invitation to INLAND Campo Adentro @inland_campoadentro by whom I attended the ‘Inland Academy - art, agroecology and territory’ in 2024-25 in Spain and France, and to the pastoralist associations ‘Lystbækgaard’ and ‘Får til Kanten’ whom I work with in Denmark.

#wamip #iyrp2026 #fao #unccd #inlandcampoadentro