Mongolian Society for Range Management said on Thursday a central Australian cattle station's innovative land use may help Mongolia deal with the massive degradation of its grassy plains.

"There is not anywhere else in the world that has the same dry, landlocked countryside where the precipitation is very much the same and the native peoples are managing the land," visiting manager of the Mongolian Society for Range Management Sukhtulga Tserennadmid said.

According to report of Australian Associated Press, the Mongolian's visit to Woodgreen cattle station locates on north-east of Alice Springs, to study the pioneering and innovative land management activities of pastoralist Bob Purvis, has proved very fruitful.

"It was very poor in the early days but now it has changed, and this shows us some of the ways we can provide specific regulations for herders to improve the state-owned rangeland," Sukhtulga said.

Sukhtulga said 70 percent of the rangeland in Mongolia was degraded so there was an urgent need to implement land management practices that would support both the estimated 43 million grazing animals and the cultural needs of the nomadic herders who traditionally roam across this region.

"Global warming, low precipitation, mining and lack of land management skills are causing more and more problems for the ranges in Mongolia," Sukhtulga said.

A group of 15 senior Mongolian government department chiefs, including tourism, food and agriculture, livestock management and sustainable livelihood has visited Australian last week to look at land management practices in the outback because of the similarities with Mongolia's grasslands.

Source:Xinhua