Simon Phillips , an ethnobotanist with the Centre for Biocultural Diversity, University of Kent, and Chris McCarthy, a Silk Road Scholar and Conservationist, have contributed an article to the The Royal Society for Asian Affairs website, mentioning the WCPF.

Photo credit: Simon Phillips and Chris McCarthy / RSAA
[…] Towards the western section of the Great Mongolian Road, we stayed with a family of herders managing the breeding centre for the critically endangered wild camel Camelus ferus. It was founded by Mongolian zoologist and wild camel expert Dr. Adiya Yadamsuren with The Wild Camel Protection Foundation, a UK charity set up in 1997 by Kathryn Rae and renowned desert explorer John Hare. The founders realised the uniqueness of this special animal, as wayfarer of the vast sands with the ability to traverse an extensive range with sparse and often saline water sources, across one of the most sparsely populated, and unforgiving territories on earth. Efforts to protect this iconic umbrella species also serve to protect other threatened plants and animals across the desert belt. The significance of the camel within the silk roads narrative does not go unnoticed, the wild camel being iconic. […]
Read full article: Following the Great Mongolian Road: Biocultural Diversity and Intangible Heritage in the Mongolian Gobi Desert