Bio-diversity

Reasons of disappearance of hunting birds in tract Kara Unkur in general are the same as in the whole country: General degradation of habitat caused by the economic development of the area Illegal hunting for baby birds and the birds itself for sale usually to foreigners Reduction of forage reserve Manul is a very rare species and if its presence in this area will be proved this will create scientific interest because up till now there were no cases of meeting manul in Western Tyan-Shan. The reason of manul disappearance is because of reduction of marmot population and simultaneous increase of dogs and wolves that kill manul. The purpose of the planning grant is to research specific reasons of disappearance of mentioned species in Kara Unkur tract, determination of population, places of nesting, hunting of mentioned species and also evaluation of actions that might have eliminated and weakened reasons of disappearance and supported by the local population. In the course of project implementation it is expected to obtain the following results: Ecological - determining population and mapping habitats of birds of prey and manul included into Red Data Book of Kyrgyzstan; -reducing cases of poaching by organizing patrol; Economic -determination of list of nature-conservative actions that must be supported by the economic interest of the population possibly will develop new kinds of activity that might bring income. Social and cultural Involvement of population into inventory and other project activity gives hope for some changes in attitude to natural resources. Actions to be undertaken by Public Association Sarykolot Nuru 1. Conducting 2 training seminars for the local population. 2. Community inventory of territory and mapping location of wild animals. 3. Normative-legal basis for creating community patrol. 4. Developing project proposal 6 families of Kara Unkur village, 11 members of the Public Association Sarykolot Nuru , post-graduate students of Biology Institute of National Academy of Sciences will be involved in the project. The main project activity will take place in tracts Dastar and Kara Unkur in the vicinity of Kara Unkur village located 37 km south-west of border of state reserve Padysh-Ata and 63 km south-east of border of state reserve Besh-Aral. The main expected ecological and economic benefits of the project are: -confirmation of species included into Red Data Book of Kyrgyzstan that earlier was not met here -assessment of opportunities of developing new kinds of economic activity

Kyrgyzstan