Uzbekistan to create first complex reserve
25/07/2016 16:57
Uzbekistan to create first complex reserve
25/07/2016 16:57
Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- Uzbekistan is planning to create the first comprehensive landscape reserve "Saigachiy".
The new reserve will be established in the territory of Muinak and Kungrad districts of Karakalpakstan.
The project was initiated by the State Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan for Nature Protection. The Government of Uzbekistan has approved the project with its resolution “On measures to regulate issues related to the establishment and operation of complex (landscape) reserves” from 22 July 2016.
State environmental agency will be created on the basis of the reserve "Saigachiy". The total area of the reserve will be 300 hectares and will include five sections. Protected zone of the reserve will make up 219,800 hectares.
The committee said that these areas were selected due to their environmental conditions for the saiga and other rare species. These areas are traditional breeding grounds of saiga as there are good pastures and watering places.
The reserve will be financed due to extra-budgetary fund of the Republican State Inspectorate for protection and rational use of flora and fauna of the State Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan for Nature Protection.
"Creating of comprehensive reserve will increase the number of saiga population and other rare and endangered species of plants and animals", - the State Committee said.
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