Its most recent initiative was a festival celebrating transhumance, the ancient custom of moving animals between winter and summer pastures.
Between the summer of 1999 and early 2002, an unprecedented series of meteorological disasters took place: great swathes of Mongolia were hit by drought, and by different types of zud, winter phenomena that prevent animals feeding either because of ice crusts or heavy snow.
They have not been able to produce enough high quality silage to feed the animals through the winter, resulting in a big rise in winter-feed costs.
The charity said it did not want to turn any patients away over the next few weeks as numbers rise from the winter average of 100 orphaned animals.
They believed that if the animals saw their shadows, winter would continue, and so they went back to sleep.
If the animals saw their shadows, winter would go on for another six weeks, and they could go back to sleep, according to the tradition.
The superstitious believed that hibernating animals would emerge from their long winter slumber to check on the weather on Candlemas, which is halfway between the winter solstice in December and the vernal equinox in March.
It is the first time it has been confirmed where the animals travel to for the northern hemisphere winter.
The animals are beginning to turn to storing their food for the winter.
After spending the winter inland in Finnmark, Europe's last great wilderness, the animals are moved to pastures near the coast for the summer.
The 50-year-old farmer and businessman left the dead animals on land at Welton of Creuchies farm in Alyth over a five month spell last winter.
The tradition goes back to medieval times when there was a superstition that all hibernating animals emerged from their caves and dens to check the weather on Candlemas, which is halfway between the winter solstice in December and the vernal equinox in March.
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