Public Awareness Grants

Protected areas, told by the people who guard them

Our three media grantees are carrying the stories of Mongolia’s rangers, herders and local communities to an audience of millions.

Impact

Stories from 23 protected areas in 12 aimags reached the public

How far the evidence goes

Knowledge
83%
of 386 people GoGo.mn surveyed before filming had heard the term “protected area”, but most did not know its categories
Starting point
Made
127
content pieces, including 82 articles, 37 videos and "Eternal Mongolia" magazine
Reached
1.7M
views and reads, as of October 2026
Engaged
38K
engagements, as of October 2026

Where the work landed

Dot size shows the number of pieces. Most covered: Otgontenger 6 · Tost Tosonbumba 6 · Ulaan Taiga 5 · Khomyn Tal 5.

23
protected areas featured: 14
ranger, herder and community stories: 234
shares of one story: Tost Tosonbumba on GoGo.mn: 8
pieces on the Protected Areas Law revision

GoGo.mn: Field films from four protected areas, each with sign language.
Peak Media: Rangers and national voices on the Protected Areas Law revision.
Montsame: The widest map: 22 of the 23 protected areas, from the Uvs basin to Dornod.

Sources: grantee reports, a pre-production survey of 386 people, and official protected area boundaries.

Grantees

Our first competitive grant round was successfully completed in the second half of 2025 with the award of three Public Awareness Grants to support protected area awareness initiatives across Mongolia.

The three media organisations awarded Public Awareness Grants in the previous reporting period (GoGo.mn, Peak Media LLC and Montsame Agency) had produced 127 content pieces as of 30 June 2026. These comprised 82 articles (70 news articles and 12 feature and long-form interview pieces, including human stories about rangers, protected area staff and local communities), 37 videos, 7 posters and carousel graphics, and one 50-page bilingual magazine. Combined with the pilot campaign, total output is 153 content pieces.

Content spans Facebook, GoGo.mn and Montsame, in short-form video, photo essays and long-form articles, with visual storytelling centred on Mongolia’s protected landscapes, wildlife, and the rangers, herders and community members connected to conservation work.