Doniga joins the
Blue Wolf Totem 2026
"On the Trail of the Ancients"

4,000 km  on horseback in 30 days to help Mongolian children in need.

#RideLikeChinggis

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In  May, 2026 Doniga will set off on an expedition of unparalleled distance and importance. She will be riding 4,000 kilometers across the breadth and width of Mongolia and all of it to help disadvantaged Mongolian children who are being helped by Veloo Foundation's Children of the Peak Sanctuary Project.  ​

Message From Doniga

As a regenerative rancher I will travel to Mongolia to take part in the Blue Wolf Totem and to live with the herders and bring their stories back. The United Nations has declared 2026 as the International Year of rangelands and pastoralists with Mongolia as one of the focal areas. As a part of that network, my hope is to raise awareness not only of the environmental issues, but also the social devestations. There is a certain quality of people who grow up surrounded by nature, working with land and riding horses. It is like we share a universal language. The connection is felt, not spoken. A level of trust and connection results between cultures where the shared language is caring for the land. By living amongst the herders I will work to understand the significant role they play, and the challenges they face toward the regeneration of the world's last tract of intact temperate grasslands.

The Mongolian Steppe has entered into my dreams, a vast land rich in diversity. The open expanse is dotted with camps of herders, their gers (yurts) and large herds of animals with horses at the center. It is like a vision that I have known I would be part of, just like I am part of the grasslands that surround me in California as I, like the herders, depend on my home grasslands for my livelihood.

​Every image I have seen of the grasslands of Mongolia is a landscape that although vast and with profound beauty is also a land that holds the stories of a destructive past. Historically the grasslands were healthy with abundant forage. Now due to economic pressures that have led to overgrazing and a changing climate, the grass is barely holding on by the roots. It is a land that has faced challenges that are indicative of rural lands across the world. The way of life for those who tend to the land has been altered by outside forces. It seems as though the Steppe is on the brink. On the brink of either a collapse of the way of life for the nomadic herders or on the brink of a revival. Along with the Veloo Foundation, I want to be part of that revival.​

The reason why this ride matters!