After a year of work the Mongolian Environmental Emergency Response Service (NGO) has become a reality. The new team has received the support of the international rescue community.

The Founding Chairperson is Madison Naidan.  She is an accomplished third year Criminal Law student and Founder of Mongolia's first National Legal Aid Service. Canadian born, David Pottier, will serve as the team's first Vice-Chairman. An innovator and futurist in the rescue field, Commander Pottier brings a life time of training, domestic and international rescue experience and rescue system command and design skills to the team. Some of his areas of expertise include Logistics and Supply, Communications and Command Structure for Land, Sea and Air Rescue Operations. He is the founder of the Canadian based TEERS-International. TEERS-Canada, with support from the Canadian Space Agency, was the first rescue team in history to use advanced satellite imagery in rescue operations.

The team will build 22 provincial chapters or units. Members will be known as the Mongolian Rangers and Junior Rangers will be created and trained within the school system.

A Forest Fire raged out of control in Mandal Soum, Selenge Aimag . 

An emergency team of 22 emergency response personell left Ulaanbaatar on June 13, 2007 for Selenge aimag in a MI-8 helicopter. Their task was to extinguish a forest fire that was burning in the areas of the Tsant Mountain and Khon River in Yeroo and Mandal soums. The team comprised 16 parachuters - firemen of the special rescue unit of the General Emergency Authority, three pilots and an operator of the emergency service. The group was led by the head of emergency management department, Commissioner D.Batbaatar and the head of fire-fighting service, G.Tserennyam.