Defending our lands. Protecting our livelihoods.
One voice, raised together in Ulaanbaatar — for the lands we protect and the lives we share.
Join the AssemblyMore than an event — a pastoralist movement taking the lead.
Across the world's rangelands, we, pastoralists, have sustained ecosystems, cultures, and food systems for generations. Yet our lands are being taken, our mobility is being restricted, and decisions about our future continue to be made without us. The World Pastoralist Assembly is where our movement comes together to organize, build solidarity across continents, and turn our collective strength into political action. Together, we raise one powerful voice to defend our rights, our territories, our mobility, and our way of life.
WAMIP is the only global grassroots pastoralist movement uniting organizations of mobile Indigenous Peoples. Since 2007, we have been building collective power to challenge injustice, defend pastoralist rights, and ensure that nothing about pastoralists is decided without pastoralists. The World Pastoralist Assembly is where we strengthen our movement, shape our collective agenda, and lead the decisions that affect our lives and our future.
From all regions of the world, one united pastoralist voice.
The International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists (IYRP 2026) brings pastoralists and rangelands to the centre of global conversations on climate, biodiversity, and sustainable futures.
Following the Global Pastoralist Gathering, WAMIP invites pastoralist leaders, women, youth, and allies from around the world to come together in Mongolia for the World Pastoralist Assembly — a space for collective reflection, dialogue, and strategy-building to strengthen the global pastoralist movement.
We, pastoralists, protect more than livelihoods,
we protect ecosystems.
We defend our territories
Our territories are under pressure from land grabbing, mining, industrial agriculture, and false climate solutions. We organize to defend them.
We keep the land alive
Healthy rangelands are not created by projects. They are sustained every day through pastoralism, our ancestral knowledge, and our relationship with the land.
We defend food sovereignty
Communities have the right to decide how food is produced. Pastoralism offers an alternative to industrial food systems that destroy ecosystems and livelihoods.
We fight for our rights
Pastoralists are not disappearing. We organize to defend our lands, our mobility, our cultures, and our collective rights.
What we will discuss
Check out our agenda-
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Defining our collective demands
Strengthening our shared declarations and messages to ensure the pastoralist movement speaks with a united and powerful voice.
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Building our strategy for collective action
Identifying the priorities, struggles, and actions that will guide our movement and strengthen our fight for pastoralist rights.
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Taking the struggle forward to COP17
Building the next phase of global advocacy to ensure pastoralist voices are heard and our demands shape climate decisions after IYRP 2026.
Join us
You are warmly invited to take part in every discussion and every moment of the World Pastoralist Assembly. Participation is completely free of charge, and we will provide all meals and local transportation throughout the event. Please, register as soon as possible so we can secure your place at the Assembly.
Getting there
Buses depart from Sükhbaatar Square, in central Ulaanbaatar, each morning and return each evening.
To register, share with us
Your name, country and the organisation you belong to; your email, phone number and WhatsApp; and any food allergies.
Interpretation
Provided into Russian, Mongolian, English, French and Spanish.
Attending as an observer
Not a pastoralist but would like to join us? Indicate this in the form and we'll let you know as soon as possible if spots are available — please wait for a confirmation email or message before travelling.
Cover the pastoralist movement. Join the pastoralist movement.
As an independent grassroots pastoralist movement, WAMIP works alongside civil society to influence decision-makers at national, regional, and international levels — including the UN, FAO, and CBD.
Journalists, media outlets, and content creators are invited to cover the World Pastoralist Assembly, connect with pastoralist leaders, and explore the stories behind a global pastoralist movement defending lands, livelihoods, and cultures.