The institute was reorganized at the beginning of 1997 as research organization under the Mongolian Academy of Sciences by integrating former three institutes: the Institute of Water Policy, Institute of Land Policy and Research Institute of Forestry and Wildlife.
Main mission of the institute is:
to conduct research in the field of natural resource rehabilitation and protection directed to maintaining ecological balance of the country;
to prepare scientific guidance for rational utilization of natural resources of Mongolia;
to carry out field investigation and projects related to natural resource utilization and conservation;
to prepare plans and maps of water and land resource states and its utilization in different ecological and economical zones.
The Institute has 4 main divisions:
Division of Ecological study,
Division of Water resource and its utilization,
Division of Land resource management,
Division of Forest resource management and it’s assessment.
The Institute has 84 employees including 54 research staff, among them 1 Doctor of Science and 16 Ph.D’s, 1 honoured worker of water engineering, 2 Leading Scientist and 5 Leading Environmentalists.
Research area:
Research of water, land and forest resource management and it’s ecological and economical evaluation of the country
Study on applied ecology and ecosystem analysis
Research for underground and surface water resource states
Water quality analysis and drinking water treatment
Water resource engineering and mapping
Land resource survey and mapping
Forest resource survey and assessment
Forest protection and reforestation in logged and burnt forest area
Desertification control and combating activities
Environmental Impact and Socio- economic assessment under commercial and industrial influences.
Support to Environmental Policy and natural resource planning
Subjects of fundamental scientific studies:
Scientific base of forest protection and reforestation
Changes of physical characteristics of pasture land soil
Scientific base of water resource and water ecology conservation
Priority research subjects: • Investigations for tree seed improvement and breeding of genetically improved seed and seedlings with high quality. • Technology of degraded land rehabilitation and combating desertification and selection of suitable land use system. • Feasibility study on the rational utilization and protection of Selenge basin water resource. • Experiment and demonstration work for ground water quality improvement in Gobi and steppe zones. • Fundamental study on dendro-climate reconstruction and mass and energy exchange in different ecosystem components • Development of ecological database management, integration with international Ecological Database Network and application of modern information technology and techniques
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