The Gobi Desert produces stunning fossils but many Mongolians never get the chance to see them.
Among the 30 stolen Mongolian fossils Bolortsetseg has worked to repatriate to date was a. It had been bought by Hollywood actor Nicolas Cage.
And now, through communities separated by thousands of miles of desert, Bolortsetseg has been driving a 37ft bus brimming with replica fossils - the originals never before seen by most Mongolians.Bolortsetseg asked the American Museum of Natural History to donate the bus "Before this, I didn't know anything about dinosaurs and now these things make me really proud," says 15-year-old Nyambayar Purevdorj, who lives next to the Tugrugiin Shiree site where the famous"fighting dinosaurs" were found.
"Most, if not all, of the teachers we train had no idea that some dinosaurs had feathers, so the people who live so close to whereAnother palaeontologist leading the workshops, Michael Ziegler from the Florida Museum of Natural History, says the aim is to train local people to give dinosaur tours themselves."Exposure is the biggest thing, starting from the ground up. In the bus, we interacted with every student and then coming back, they brought their parents along to teach them, too.
Mayor Tumurbat says that annually 90% of Mongolia's tourists visit the Gobi Desert and Bayanzag's Flaming Cliffs.
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