Our organization has been organizing the International long-distance marathon Mongolia Sunrise to Sunset since 1999 on the western shore of Lake Hovsgol in cooperation with Hovsgol Travel Company to develop eco-sports, tourism and protect the environment.
The funds from marathon helped to collect and transport abandoned dry waste from the west shore of Lake Hovsgol, and to distribute environmentally friendly bio-degradable garbage bags for free to tourists entering the Hovsgol Lake National Park, thus we have been contributing to the protection of the environment for 22 years.
From 2020 we have expanded our activities in cooperation with the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development and the Global Nature Fund to support dry waste management and implement project “Conservation of ecosystem services through waste management in Hovsgol Lake National Park” by providing training on knowledge and skills of sorting waste at source and reduction of waste to tourist and ger camps, households, organizations operating in the Hovsgol State Special Protected Area, schools and kindergarten in Hatgal village.
For the last two years due to the Covid-19 pandemic we couldn’t held our ultra-marathon Mongolia Sunrise to Sunset www.ms2s.org in Hovsgol Lake National Park, which were to provide funding through fundraisers needed to successfully implement the project, instead we have successfully organized Virtual Run Ulaanbaatar 2021 to continue our contribution to the protection of the environment.
If you would like to learn more about the marathon and want to contribute to the Hovsgol Lake National Park you can donate here.
And to find out more about success of the Mongolia Sunrise to Sunset marathon watch the video: