Bio-diversity

Apple gardening on the buffer zone of the Aksu-Dzhabagly Natural Reserve has fallen into decay for the last decade. It has caused increasing unemployment and worsening of social problems in rural areas. The apple gardens are intensively cut down by local people. The relic wild species of apple are under on the verge of disappearance. Therefore preservation of the wild kind of apple is a question of the global agrobiodiversity conservation, as the wild apple woods are unique genofund for creation of new species of apples. During realization of the project the problem and project acticvities will be highlighted in mass media; local community will be actively involved in the actions on the wild apple saplings planting, meetings, seminars, etc. A public inspection and two ecological societies (groups) in two rural schools will be created to protect and take care of the saplings. The project will promote local people awareness raising about the situation with the wild apple woods in the south of the country. A small wild apple garden will be established.

Kazakhstan