There are a lot of brands, especially fast fashion brands, promoting cashmere. When we buy a pure or blended cashmere product, having this luxury very soft touch we do not think about the effect this can have on the environment. Cashmere products carry the feeling of luxury in its name. Cashmere is a precious commodity because it is combed from the underbelly of goats living in high altitude and it is extremely soft and fine. First, the industry’s rapid growth has degraded the average fiber quality. What happened is the herders, responding to the significant higher demand, increased their goat livestock with 66% over the last decade but also harvest older goats where the quality of the fiber is less and which lead to an overall decline of the quality of the fiber. As a result, the processing waste, which means the waste after the fiber is washed and carded increased considerably. Luckily the awareness is growing and programs are implemented. Not only are there different organizations who are helping like Sustainable Fiber Association (SFA) but also Green Gold, a project developed with the help of the Swiss Development for Corporations (SDC), where they not only advise and train herders to manage their livestock and pasture land in a better way but help them to integrate other luxury fibers as yak and camels. During several years studies were conducted and herders trained. Different management of the pasture land is implemented today, as training in combing in a more sustainable way the animals and separating the best part of the fibers while bringing it directly to the washing and carding facilities. Yak and Camels exist already in the Mongolian landscape and their fiber can bring additional income to the herders which do not affect the land. However, the solution is not so easy, since the cashmere fiber gives still a higher price then yak or camel fibers. But to avoid losing land to desertification a change has to be made and the herds of cashmere have to be managed in a more sustainable way.