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Sam Arnold of the American Independent Capital Group, Inc (AICG) recently agreed to assist a descendent of Mongolian royalty in raising $100,000,000 to realize his dream of restoring sacred grassland to usefulness while raising the living standards of impoverished Mongolian herders. Ha Si Bataar (Bataar means ‘Hero’ in Mongolian) was born in poverty, rose to prominence, and carries a passion for the vast grasslands of Inner Mongolia and for other ethnic Mongolians. A successful businessman, descended from the kings of a Mongol tribe, he wants to make a positive impact on his homeland and his people with the aid of AICG.
AICG is an international company that provides assistance to enterprises seeking capital funding for business projects. On November 1 AICG agreed to secure the $100,000,000 in staged funding required for Bataar to implement his ambitious plan to renew the land of his birth.
Bataar and AICG are working closely with local governments in Xilinhot and Xiujimqin Qi in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China. The project plan calls for the restoration of 170,000 hectares (420,000 acres) of grassland to its natural condition. The encroachment of desert, aided by overgrazing and poor animal husbandry practices, has threatened the environment and the livelihood of the semi-nomadic ethnic Mongolians in the area.
The project involves the use of coordinated tactics to reverse the effects of desertification. Integral to the plan is the process of soil preparation for the replanting of native pasture and forage grasses. Support for the restored grassland necessitates the drilling of wells to provide water and the installation of irrigation grids with modern computerized flow controls. Fencing for animal control, government controls on stock grazing, and the planting of trees are also part of the plan.
The Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region is China’s third largest province, a land area bigger than the states of Texas and California combined. According to the website of the non-profit organization Circle of Blue “As recently as the 1960s, almost three-quarters of Inner Mongolia was grass. No longer. Since 1980 desert has claimed 2 million acres of cropland, and nearly 6 million acres of rangeland.”
Organizations as diverse as the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, the Organization for Industrial, Spiritual and Cultural Advancement (OISCA International)
Bataar wants to address both the environmental and the economic aspects of the problem. The traditional industries of sheep and cattle herding are disappearing with the grassland. No new industries are on the horizon to replace them. Bataar’
AICG is actively working with its institutional investors to fund Bataar’s project, which in addition to the environmental and economic impact on Inner Mongolia is also expected to return a competitive profit.
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