In the course of the last fifty years there have been
on average twenty-four million animals registered
annually in Mongolia. In 1996 29, 275,700 animals
were counted. This is a quantity never before
experienced in the country's history. In the coming
years another rise in the number of animals is
expected. Some specialists conjecture a continual
increase. Others are attempting to prove that this
cannot be realized on account of limitations of
space and that, already, throughout the country,
pasture land is being threatened by overuse due to
the sheer quantity of livestock. The question of how
much livestock the resources of the entire natural
pasture can support is still not completely
answered.