Independent third-party audit of the 2025 planting season — every cohort, every aimag, every dollar.
Letter from the audit committee
2025 was the first year Green Shield Mongolia’s full operations were audited end to end. Six independent auditors visited every cohort during the August-September 2025 audit window, ground-truthed survival counts, and verified our internal accounting against bank records.
What the data shows
The headline number is the average Year-3 survival rate across all cohorts that reached their three-year audit. Below the headline, what matters more is the distribution: how many cohorts cleared the 70% floor we promise donors, and what we did about the ones that didn’t.
Failures and replanting
Two cohorts fell below the 70% floor in 2025 — both in the Bayan-Ölgii dryland zone, where unusually low spring precipitation stressed the saplings during establishment. Both will be replanted at no additional cost to original donors during the spring 2026 planting window.
Methodology
Audit methodology, GPS coordinates, species lists, and per-cohort breakdowns are linked from the field reports archive. The full PDF (with photo evidence and bank statements) is available on request.