Research in Focus: Mongolia Summer 2025 Student Program
Summer 2025 in Mongolia was, as always, an eventful program!
Wild places are important in and of themselves. Round River is dedicated to the conservation of those increasingly rare vast landscapes, their inherent wildness and the ecological complexity that sustains them and inspires us. We employ the principles of conservation biology to provide our partners well-founded scientific basis for their long-term conservation efforts. The edict of Aldo Leopold’s Round River, in the face of global climate challenges, today rings ever truer. Fundamental to our work is the vitality of local cultures and communities requiring comprehensive approaches to capture the ecologies that sustain these systems. We also believe wild landscapes are powerful educators, and our environmental study abroad programs involve small groups of students in finding and implementing solutions to wildlife conservation and sustainability challenges.
Summer 2025 in Mongolia was, as always, an eventful program!
This summer, RRCS staff were active in northern Canada, supporting engagement events, advancing research collaborations, and contributing to the Taku Student Program.
At the request of Ulaan Taigan National Park, Round River’s Mongolia summer program will be piloting new research using a drone.
Jenn Thomsen, Program Director of Parks, Tourism and Recreation Management at the University of Montana, visited Round River’s Spring 2025 Botswana cohort in the field.
As we jump into 2025, we’re thrilled to share our 2024 Impact Report!
Telling stories about important experiences is hard to get right. I have spent decades thinking about this. Not only because Round River’s story is a great one, filled with science, adventure, friendship, and magic, but also because it is next to impossible to clearly communicate what alchemy moves our hearts into action, or causes our hardened perceptions to soften and change.
