The status of wildlife of Tajikistan

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The status of wildlife of Tajikistan

• Reported by Tajik Team
• Dushanbe 2006

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General Information

• Tajikistan is inland country
• 93 of territory occupied by mountain
• Population 7.0 millions
• 70 of population live in rural location
• Forest is 3 of territory
• Tajikistan has luxuriant fauna on rather small
  territory (14,3 mil he)
• A total amount of wildlife achieves 8.5 thousand
  species.

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Variety of wildlife and wildlife resources

• 84 species of mammal
• 365 species of birds
• 49 species of reptiles
• 7-8 thousand species of insects.
• In low lands the hot deserts submitted -the grey
  monitor lizard, a cobra, an arrow-snake, a beauty
  bustard, a spotty cat, a leopard, the fox, and
  etc.

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Variety of wildlife and wildlife resources

• The fauna in tugai forest are submitted tugai
  deer, a cane cat, the jackal, Vipera lebetina,
  the golden pheasant, swans, a striped hyena, etc
• The low mountain zone (500-1000 m) -a steppe
  turtle, steppe agama, a porcupine, a hare -
  tolai, a gopher, a fox, etc.
• The middle mountain zone (1000-2500 m)-a bear,
  the fox, the wolf, snow leopard, Siberian ibex, a
  mouflon, Capra falconeri, etc.

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Variety of wildlife and wildlife resources

• The fauna of the Alpine zone are Himalaya
  Tetraogallos, a snow griffon-vulture, Siberian
  ibex, a snow leopard, etc.
• The fauna of a high-mountainous of the Pamirs
  differs greatly from the fauna of all mountain
  ranges of Central Asia. Here submitted a Tibetan
  Tetraogallos, Tibetan Syrrhaptes, Himalayan
  Mergus, an Indian goose, a red duck, brown-headed
  seagull, a caress, an ermine, Mustela altaica, a
  fox, a lynx, a wolf, a bear, a snow leopard,
  Siberian ibex , Marko Polo sheep.

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Nature-protected territories of Tajikistan
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Nature-protected territories of Tajikistan
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Population density of main hunting species in
different census areas of the Pamirs (2002)
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Current situation in Tajikistan

• Amateur and professional hunting on the territory
  of the Republic of Tajikistan is allowed in
  specified period (depending on species). Amateur
  hunters are allowed to hunt wild animals and
  birds under licenses.
• Actions which can lead to death, reduction of
  numbers of violation of the habitat of the rare
  and endangered animal species are prohibited.

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Wildlife policy (main focus areas)

• The government in the field of protection and
  use of fauna is carried out by the Government
• Specially authorized state body on protection and
  regulation of use of fauna is State Committee of
  Environmental Protection and Forestry R
• Objects of fauna are in charge of local Majlisis
  of People's Deputies.
• Terms of realization of separate kinds of using
  objects of fauna are established by the
  legislation.
• Possession and using objects of fauna in the
  Republics of Tajikistans is paid.
• The order and specifications of a payment and
  using objects of fauna are established by the
  Government

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WILDLIFE INSTITUTIONS

• Supervising - includes the ministries and
  committees which supervise performance existing
  legislatively - statutory acts
• Introducing - Agency of Forestry and Hunting and
  Oblast and rayon forestry production associations
  
• Implementing - timber enterprises, inspections,
  nursery forest farms, forest hunting farms

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Wildlife Education, research and NGO

• Tajik Agrarian University
• Tajik National State University
• Tajik scientific research forestry institute
• Institute of zoology and parasitology
• Pamir biological institute
• Republican society of hunters and fishers
• Fund Kuhiston,
• The Man and the Nature,
• Association of protection of wild animals.

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WILDLIFE LEGISLATION

• The Law of the Republic of Tajikistan About
  protection and use of fauna
• The Law on nature protection
• The Forestry Code

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THE MAIN PROBLEMS

• Development of new and perfection of existing
  methods and ways of protection of rare and
  disappearing species of animals,
• Mitigations of anthropogenous pressing on all
  complex of the animal population of the republic
• Creation of the scientific-methodical center
• Creation of new nature protection systems
• Wide propagation among local population about
  value natural protected territories and their
  uniqueness
• Preparation of the documentation on creation of
  new SPT
• Development of new specifications on a mode of
  SPT
• Inventory of flora and fauna in SPT
• For improving this situation it is important to
  carry out a regular monitoring

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POLITICY OPTIONS

• All every state specially prtected territories is
  financed on behalf of the state budget
• The state increases the area of specially
  protected territories
• The state since 1997 has been paying much
  attention to restoration of the preserve and to
  organization of new specially protected
  territories

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PROPOSED TOPICS TO BE CONSIDERED WITHIN FAO
TECHNICAL COOPERATION PROGRAMME

• Development of National Strategy and Action Plan
  on animal world protection and their rational use
• Zoning of the territory of Tajik National Park
• Establishing of Shahristan reserve (juniper)
• Establishing of pistachio preserve in Panj
  district
• Allocation of buffer zone of reserves
• Improvement of legislation and regulation in the
  sphere of animal world and hunting
• Providing Technical assistance to specially
  protected territories
• Establishing of a center training and re-training
  of specialists

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PROPOSED TOPICS TO BE CONSIDERED WITHIN FAO
TECHNICAL COOPERATION PROGRAMME

• Establishing of the nursery for Bukhara Deer
• Creation of the three nurseries for breeding and
  expansion of the three subspecies of Pheasant
• Initiation of international reserve (Tajikistan,
  Afghanistan, China and Pakistan)
• Territorial expansion of Dashtijum reserve by
  joining it with neighboring Dashtijum sanctuary.
  It allows stabilizing the situation of the
  Markhor population
• To grant the status of reserve for habitats area
  of Bustard

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