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Besh-Aral Nature Reserve
Besh-Aral Nature Reserve ( ky, Беш-Арал мамлекеттик коругу, russian: Беш-Аральский государственный заповедник) is a nature reserve in Chatkal District, Jalal-Abad Region, western Kyrgyzstan. Established in 1979, it currently covers 112,463 hectares. It is situated in the basin of the rivers Ters and Chatkal, between 950 and 2300 m elevation. This is a mountainous region with untouched wild landscapes, turbulent rivers, vast meadows, and great biodiversity. History Besh-Aral Nature Reserve was established on March 21, 1979, to preserve the unique natural complex and forests of the Chatkal valley, as well as to protect the habitat of the Menzbier's Marmot and to protect the natural habitat of vegetation of Greig's and Kaufmann's tulips. The area of the reserve amounted to 116,700 hectares. In 1994,in regard with the establishment of Chatkal Forestry the boundaries of the reserve were changed and area reduced to 63,200 hec ...
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Chatkal District
Chatkal ( ky, Чаткал району) is a district of Jalal-Abad Region in western Kyrgyzstan. The administrative seat lies at Kanysh-Kyya. Its area is , and its resident population was 28,625 in 2021. Geography The district occupies high-altitude Chatkal valley limited by Talas Ala-Too from north, Pskem Range from north-west and west, and Chatkal Range from south-east. In addition, the district includes a small area of south-east slope of the Chatkal Range facing Fergana Valley. Elevations of the terrain range from approximately 1500 m at Sumsar to 4503 m in the Chatkal range. Some other picks of the district reach altitudes of over 4000 meters. Chatkal valley is pear-shaped. The slope of Chatkal Range facing the valley is terraced. The terraces are dissected by deep canyons of Chatkal river's tributaries, characterized by snowfields and small glaciers in the upstreams. Chandalash Range extends in the central part of the district. Mountains occupy 96%, and vallies - 4% ...
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Jalal-Abad Region
Jalal-Abad Region ( ky, Жалал-Абад облусу, Jalal-Abad oblusu; russian: Джалал-Абадская область, Dzhalal-Abadskaya oblast) is a region (''oblast'') of Kyrgyzstan. Its capital is the city of the same name, Jalal-Abad. It is surrounded by (clockwise from the north) Talas Region, Chüy Region, Naryn Region, Osh Region, and Uzbekistan. Jalal-Abad Region was established on 21 November 1939. On 27 January 1959 it became a part of Osh Region, but regained its old status as a region on 14 December 1990. Its total area is . The resident population of the region was 1,260,617 as of January 2021. The region has a sizeable Uzbek (24.8% in 2009) minority. Geography Jalal-Abad Region covers (16.2% of total country's area) in central-western Kyrgyzstan. The southern edge of the region is part of the Ferghana Valley. The rest of the region is mountainous. M41, the main north-south highway from Bishkek to Osh, takes a very crooked route down the center ...
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Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan,, pronounced or the Kyrgyz Republic, is a landlocked country in Central Asia. Kyrgyzstan is bordered by Kazakhstan to the north, Uzbekistan to the west, Tajikistan to the south, and the People's Republic of China to the east. Its capital and largest city is Bishkek. Ethnic Kyrgyz make up the majority of the country's seven million people, followed by significant minorities of Uzbeks and Russians. The Kyrgyz language is closely related to other Turkic languages. Kyrgyzstan's history spans a variety of cultures and empires. Although geographically isolated by its highly mountainous terrain, Kyrgyzstan has been at the crossroads of several great civilizations as part of the Silk Road along with other commercial routes. Inhabited by a succession of tribes and clans, Kyrgyzstan has periodically fallen under larger domination. Turkic nomads, who trace their ancestry to many Turkic states. It was first established as the Yenisei Kyrgyz Khaganate later i ...
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Ters (river)
The Ters ( ky, Терс, russian: Терс) is a river in Ala-Buka District of Jalal-Abad Region of Kyrgyzstan. It rises on northern slopes of Chatkal Range and flows into Chatkal The Chatkal (russian: Чаткал) is a river of Jalal-Abad Region, Kyrgyzstan and Tashkent Region in Uzbekistan. It is the left source river of the Chirchiq in the Syr Darya basin. In its upper course it is called ''Karakulja''. The length of .... The length of the river is and the basin area . It is fed by majorly snow and rainwater and by springs. Average annual discharge is . The maximum flow is , and the minimum - . References Rivers of Kyrgyzstan {{Kyrgyzstan-river-stub ...
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Chatkal
The Chatkal (russian: Чаткал) is a river of Jalal-Abad Region, Kyrgyzstan and Tashkent Region in Uzbekistan. It is the left source river of the Chirchiq in the Syr Darya basin. In its upper course it is called ''Karakulja''. The length of the river is , with a basin area of .Чаткал
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Menzbier's Marmot
The Menzbier's marmot (''Marmota menzbieri'') is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae from Central Asia. Its name commemorates Russian zoologist Mikhail Aleksandrovich Menzbier. Distribution and habitat It inhabits meadows and steppe at altitudes of in the western Tien Shan Mountains of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and far northern Tajikistan. Conservation It has the smallest range among the Palearctic species of marmot and tends to occur in low densities, with a population estimate in 1998 indicating that there were a total of 22,000 individuals and an estimate in 2005 indicating that there were 20,000–25,000 individuals in Kazakhstan alone. The IUCN considers it vulnerable with the main threat being habitat loss from expanding agriculture and a smaller threat being hunting for food. Locally, its range comes into contact with that of the long-tailed marmot (''M. caudata'') and the two form a species group, but they segregate by habitat, with the Men ...
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Tulipa Greigii
''Tulipa greigii'', (Greig's tulip) is a species of tulip native to Central Asia and Iran. Taxonomy The Latin specific epithet ''greigi'' honors the Russian Samuel Greig, (1735-1788, "Father of the Russian navy") due to Greig once being president of the Russian Horticultural Society. The tulip was originally found in Turkestan, and then published and described by Eduard August von Regel in Gartenflora Vol.22 on page 290 in 1873. Description ''Tulipa greigii'' typically grows tall, they have single flowers with a bowl-like shape, blooming in early to mid-spring. They also have spotted and striped leaves and the flowers are quite large, up to wide. The blooms are more limited in colour shades than with other tulips, ranging from red and yellow to white. It is known for its variegated green and purple-maroon leaves. Its cultivars 'Oratorio', 'Plaisir', 'Red Riding Hood', 'Toronto', and 'United States' have gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit Th ...
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Tulipa Kaufmanniana
''Tulipa kaufmanniana'', the water lily tulip, is a species of tulip native to Central Asia. Description The tulip has a short stem, long,Richard Wilford making it a dwarf tulip.The National Gardening Association; Bob Beckstrom, Karan Davis Cutler, Kathleen Fisher, Phillip Giroux, Judy Glattstein, Michael MacCaskey, Bill Marken, Charlie Nardozzi, Sally Roth, Marcia Tatroe, Lance Walheim and Ann Whitman It has lance shaped leaves which may be plain green, or blue-green. They also often have purple markings on their leaves. It is one of the earliest tulips to bloom, between February to April. The funnel-shaped flower, has six pointy petals that open out like a star similar to water lilies do, hence the common name. They open very wide on sunny days. They usually have outermost petals with a different colour than interior petals. The long upright petals often have a flushed orange-red, red or purple flush on the back of the petal. Inside the petal, there maybe a butter-yellow ...
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Marmota Menzbieri
The Menzbier's marmot (''Marmota menzbieri'') is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae from Central Asia. Its name commemorates Russian zoologist Mikhail Aleksandrovich Menzbier. Distribution and habitat It inhabits meadows and steppe at altitudes of in the western Tien Shan Mountains of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and far northern Tajikistan. Conservation It has the smallest range among the Palearctic species of marmot and tends to occur in low densities, with a population estimate in 1998 indicating that there were a total of 22,000 individuals and an estimate in 2005 indicating that there were 20,000–25,000 individuals in Kazakhstan alone. The IUCN considers it vulnerable with the main threat being habitat loss from expanding agriculture and a smaller threat being hunting for food. Locally, its range comes into contact with that of the long-tailed marmot (''M. caudata'') and the two form a species group, but they segregate by habitat, with the Menzbier's mar ...
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Chandalash Wildlife Refuge
Chandalash Game Reserve ( ky, Чандалаш заказниги, also Сандалаш ''Sandalash'') is a wildlife refuge in Kyrgyzstan. Established in 1975, it covers . It is situated on the upper course of the river Chandalash, in Chatkal District Chatkal ( ky, Чаткал району) is a district of Jalal-Abad Region in western Kyrgyzstan. The administrative seat lies at Kanysh-Kyya. Its area is , and its resident population was 28,625 in 2021. Geography The district occupies high-a .... References Game reserves in Kyrgyzstan Protected areas established in 1975 {{Asia-protected-area-stub ...
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Nature Reserves In Kyrgyzstan
Nature, in the broadest sense, is the physical world or universe. "Nature" can refer to the phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general. The study of nature is a large, if not the only, part of science. Although humans are part of nature, human activity is often understood as a separate category from other natural phenomena. The word ''nature'' is borrowed from the Old French ''nature'' and is derived from the Latin word ''natura'', or "essential qualities, innate disposition", and in ancient times, literally meant "birth". In ancient philosophy, ''natura'' is mostly used as the Latin translation of the Greek word ''physis'' (φύσις), which originally related to the intrinsic characteristics of plants, animals, and other features of the world to develop of their own accord. The concept of nature as a whole, the physical universe, is one of several expansions of the original notion; it began with certain core applications of the word φύσις by pre-Socr ...
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