This project, entitled 'Community-based Conservation of Biological Diversity in the Mountain Landscapes of Mongolia's Altai Sayan Eco-region' (ASP), was planned and approved as a five year initiative to contribute to the stated goal of "conservation and sustainable use of globally significant mountain biological diversity..." The project seeks to achieve this goal by 1) mainstreaming biodiversity conservation into sustainable natural resource use policy, programs, and practice and 2) linking traditional protected area management to the landscape around each area, including cross-border cooperation. It established teams operating in four aimags, Bayan Olgii, Khovd, Khovsgol and Uvs, with its headquarters in Khovd. A small office was also maintained in Ulaanbaatar. The project has developed good connections with government offices in the Altai and Sayan regions and supported a large number of community groups, but in its first four years, it has not so far achieved either of its twin targets of mainstreaming biodiversity into development or establishing a system for ensuring landscape conservation. The progress made in each of its five substantive outputs is as follows: Output 1. Biodiversity conservation mainstreamed into Altai Sayan development institutions. Output 2. Information baseline established and strengthened as basis for integrating conservation into development. Output 3. Landscape-based approach to conservation established and operational. Output 4. Strengthened transboundary conservation action and institutional linkages. Output 5. Community livelihoods developed on the basis of sustainable use of natural resources and biodiversity conservation.