{"id":33784,"date":"2021-07-07T01:57:51","date_gmt":"2021-07-06T16:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/06\/mongolia-is-home-to-the-worlds-first-national-park"},"modified":"2021-07-07T01:57:51","modified_gmt":"2021-07-06T16:57:51","slug":"mongolia-is-home-to-the-worlds-first-national-park-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33784","title":{"rendered":"Mongolia is home to the world\u2019s first national park | Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Keith Taylor <\/strong>says Yellowstone in the US is not the first national park to have been established<\/p>\n<p>In your article on the climate threat to the Old Faithful geyser (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2021\/jul\/02\/yellowstone-geyser-old-faithful-stop-erupting-ramifications\">Yellowstone\u2019s most famous geyser could shut down, with huge ramifications<\/a>, 2 July), it was claimed that Yellowstone, founded in 1870, was the world\u2019s first national park.<\/p>\n<p>Citizens of Mongolia and those who are proud to call it home may take exception to that claim. Almost a full century earlier, in 1783, the Mongolian government under the control of the Qing dynasty established Bogd Khan Uul, a mountain that overlooks today\u2019s capital of Ulaanbaatar, as a protected reserve and the world\u2019s first national park. It remains a national park, Unesco biosphere reserve and popular hiking spot to this day. I can see it from my living room window. It\u2019s lovely.<br \/><strong>Keith Taylor<br \/><\/strong><em>Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/06\/mongolia-is-home-to-the-worlds-first-national-park\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keith Taylor says Yellowstone in the US is not the first national park to have been establishedIn your article on the climate threat to the Old Faithful geyser (Yellowstone\u2019s most famous geyser could shut down, with huge ramifications, 2 July), it was &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":269,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[65,1385,1748,995],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-mongolia","category-national-parks","category-unesco"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/269"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33785,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33784\/revisions\/33785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}