On the Bogd Khan Mountain project, Mongolians and foreign partners from Italy, the United States, and India collaborate. The local Mongolian authority of the Qing Dynasty designated the Bogd Khan a protected spot for its beauty in 1783. This makes it the world's second earliest officially protected natural territory. On August 6, 1996, the Bogd Khan Mountain was added to the "UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List" in the Cultural category.
Bogd-Khan Mountain is a hydrologically significant component of the Arctic Ocean Basin's Tuul River Basin, with an average yearly rainfall of more than 100 m. The river flows from about 20 streams around the mountain to the Tuul River, and the remainder of the streams to mountain sides and depressions descend into the fluffy sediments.
Bogd-Khan Mountain Strictly Protected Area covers 41,651 hectares, of which 53.1%, or 22,129 hectares, are forest reserves:
3 million tree seedlings were planted as part of the Bogd-Khan Mountain afforestation project.
