ORIENT already wrote about the international project to reintroduce a small herd of Turkmenian kulan to the steppes of central Kazakhstan. At the end of October 2017, a first group of nine animals was released into an acclimatization enclosure on the edge of the Altyn Dala protec...

Twenty water specialists from Central Asia visited Aktobe, Kazakhstan to participate in specialized training on innovative solutions in the construction of hydraulic structures. Representatives of the Executive Committee of the international Fund for Saving the Aral sea attended ...

Climate change can lead to a significant decrease in yields in Central Asian states – up to 20 percent. It was stated by Kaliya Moldogazieva, Vice Chairperson of the Board of Governors of the Regional Environmental Center for Central Asia. She stressed that ecology has no bord...

Arslan KEMALOV

Students at the College of the Leadership Academy in Manila came up with an original idea for solving an environmental problem that is often observed in rivers in the Philippines. It is caused by water flowers - hyacinths, unrestrained distribution of which lead

In the next few days Kazakhstan National Geographic Society (QazGeo) will start expedition to the Aral Sea. QazGeo Project Manager Nurzhan Algashov told about the details of the expedition in an interview with The Astana Times. “The first expedition to the Aral Sea will last 20 d...

Nury AMANOV

The expert community gives recommendations on the solution of the Aral Sea problem. According to the Kazakh News Agency “Khabar”, at the workshop on environmental protection in Astana, experts propose to introduce drip irrigation in agriculture in the coastal areas ...

Nury AMANOV

The UN, international experts on water issuesand the media are sounding the alarm - in the world there is a growing scarcity of fresh water. A further aggravation of this problem can lead to mass migration of the population right up to the displacement of peoples

Oleg Vinokurov Noisy flocks of pink starlings, flown from India, can be seen in the crowns of the trees of the city parks in Ashgabat. Their cheerful hubbub says of the imminent arrival of the summer heat and promises a threat to the numerous insect pests that starlings eat. T

In the near future, FAO will launch a new programme in Central Asia on sustainable forest development, forest protection and natural resource management. Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan will be the key beneficiaries of the project t...

Akmyrat Yylkybaev

A regional training, aimed at training the core specialists in integrated water resources management (IWRM) and introducing a basin approach (BP) into their work, is held on April 24-25 in the capital of Uzbekistan. These types of management are recognized