ÖkoFlussPlan (2019-2022)

Conservation of riparian forests with its full range of ecosystem services along the Naryn River in Kyrgyzstan is the overarching objective of this project. The Naryn River on the one hand has not been altered by construction infrastructure like…

All Central Asian countries have low forest cover of less than 15%.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, energy supplies from Russia fell sharply. People turned to firewood as the main source of…

Across Central Asia, agriculture largely depends on irrigation due to arid and semi-arid climatic conditions. Water is abstracted from rivers and diverted into myriads of irrigation channels. In the past 50 years the area of irrigated cropland…

In the course of evolution, many fruit tree species like apple, pear, cherry, plum, and peach have evolved in the mountain regions of Central Asia. Many scientists claim this for walnut evolution as well. In southern Kyrgyzstan, there is the…