Environmental policy and administrative management

Valley of Gulcha river where Sarykamysh village is located is one of the most dangerous landslide prone places of Kyrgyzstan. It is connected with the presence of loess and clay rocks of Cretaceous period that very easily turn into fluid state because of increasing moisture. Surface waters easily penetrate into soil in case of destruction of vegetation and grassy cover. Thus, destruction of vegetation cover resulting from overgrazing and cutting down of wood and bush vegetation is the cause that intensify landslide and erosion processes. Main goal of the project is to prevent land degradation and preservation meadow and forest ecosystems around Sarkamysh village through planting saplings in 40 hectares walnuts, almonds, Red Book species such as Nedvedskiy apple, Korgyskogo pear, hawthorn Knoringa, Turkestan mountain ash, buckthorn, horseheal and fast growing trees. In the course of project implementation it is intended obtaining of following results: Ecological -conservation and reproduction of species of plants included into Red Data Book of Kyrgyzstan, part of which are endemics; -prevention of occurrence of erosion processes; -rehabilitation of the natural soil fertility and improving their state including increase of absorption capacity at the expense of strengthening of humus formation process; -rehabilitation of sustainable natural forest-meadow ecosystem; Economic -collection of fruits of wild fruit-trees as a source of additional income; -complex use of forest-meadow ecosystem (collection of fruits and medicine plants, haymaking, use of wood of fast-growing trees) as an alternative to narrow, destroying ecosystem cattle-breeding use of land; - it is possible that there might be changes in the structure of the housekeeping directed at diversity of income sources Social and cultural - it is possible that understanding will improve that cattle-breeding in the existing kind that exists now causes land degradation and next generations will be forced to leave the village because of landslide danger; -it is possible that understanding will appear that rehabilitation of natural meadow-forest vegetation and its competent use is the only way of carrying on management in this area. -appearance of preconditions on changing merely consumer attitude towards natural resources to a competent use and reproduction. Actions to be undertaken by Public Association Ecologiyalik Tilekteshtik 1. Conducting 3 training seminars for the local population. 2. Establish community based nursery forest in 0,5 hectares. 3. Planting saplings of 8000 poplars, 2000 almonds, 2500 walnuts, 4000 willows in 40 hectares land. 4. Collecting seeds of Nedvedskiy apple, Korgyskogo pear, hawthorn Knoringa, Turkestan mountain ash, buckthorn, horseheal for sowing. 5. Taking care for saplings and distribute lots among the 9 local families 6. Conducting comparative analyses of productivity between territory with pasture landscape and forest landscape 7. Fence the territory with total length 4200m. 8. Information campaign. 9 families of the village Sarykamysh, members of the public association Ecotilektesh , public association Eco-oy , students and teachers of Osh State University will be involved in the project. Main activity of the project will be taking place from the northern side of the village Sarykamysh located in 15 km north of state forest zakaznik Byolyolyu and 10 km east of hunters zakaznik Gulcha . The main expected ecological and economical benefits of the project are: Rehabilitation of forest-meadow vegetation containing rare and endangered species included into the Red Data Book of Kyrgyzstan; Appearance of alternative to cattle-breeding kinds of carrying on management

Kyrgyzstan