Video | How Mining Endangers Pastoral Livelihoods and Why Community Consent is Essential

In Mongolia’s Gobi region, a local herder reveals how coal mining stripped families of seasonal pastures and degraded wool and cashmere quality with heavy dust. Grounded in the RED LINE initiative, she explains why herders demand strict ecosystem protections and Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC), declaring that no mining should ever proceed without collective community consent.