There are 379 projects that match your search.
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Kazakhstan
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Biodiversity
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2005
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36,000.00
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OP3 - Y1 (Mar 05 - Feb 06)
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Project Number: KAZ/05/17 |
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Tourism infrastructure is in embryo on the territory of the Western Tien-Shan mountains. There is a probability that this niche will be kept by big tourist commercial companies, and the local population will come to " the broken trough". This means ( ... )
e local people will not be admitted to reception of the due income out of the natural resources use. Besides there are some threat to the biodiversity of the Western Tien-Shan mountain range, such as strong negative influence from the direction of unorganized tourists and commercial companies, and local community, irregular on environmental routes of the Aksu-Zhabagly Natural Reserve.
The
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Kazakhstan
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Chemicals
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2005
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2,000.00
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OP3 - Y1 (Mar 05 - Feb 06)
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Project Number: KAZ/05/02 |
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Awareness of the population about POPs is low. In the meantime, people collide with POPs in everyday life, and even do not know about potential danger which POPs bear for health and life. Creation of tools and mechanisms promoting realization of ( ... )
ockholm convention, in particular, through involving of the public in global process of POPs destruction is necessary.
The project is directed on informing of the population, government representatives, nature protection departments, NGOS about POPs; increase comprehension and the role of the public in settlement of the problems of revealing, storage, liquidation of POPs stocks, their negative
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Kazakhstan
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Chemicals
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2005
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2,000.00
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OP3 - Y1 (Mar 05 - Feb 06)
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Project Number: KAZ/05/04 |
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Today the issue of the POPS influence on environment and health of people is of the highest priority. Danger that POPs bring, began to cause more and more than anxiety which has led to acceptance and planning of measures directed on protection of ( ... )
of people and environment. But the main problem is still that people are not aware about the POPs danger.
The project is directed on Uralsk city population awareness raising about POPs, ecological responsibility of citizens by means of their conscious and active participation in nature protection action, by organization and carrying out of information campaign among citizents of the city
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Kazakhstan
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Climate Change Mitigation
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2005
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44,000.00
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OP3 - Y1 (Mar 05 - Feb 06)
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Project Number: KAZ/05/20 |
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In a steppe zone of the Central Kazakhstan, as well as in other areas of the country, the degradation of environment affecting on livelihood of the local people is observed, leading to exhaustion of the sustainable livelihood sources, deterioration ( ... )
grounds structure (due to over breeding around settlements), aggravation of situation with workplaces, etc. Owing to these factors, people are moving to the remote pastures.
But remote areas are not enough supplied with energy and situation can be characterized as catastrophic in view of low solvency of the majority of the rural population, caused by low incomes. Traditional kinds of fuel
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Kazakhstan
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Biodiversity
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2004
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44,812.00
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Phase 2
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Project Number: KAZ/04/02 |
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Drying up of the Aral Sea has resulted in dividing of its water space into Bolshoi (Big) and Maly (Small) Aral Sea. From that moment the changes of their hydrogeological and hydrochemical regimes occur independently. Bolshoi Aral is becoming more ( ... )
w and salty, by autumn 2003 its salinity in the north-east gulfs was 80-82%. Running of Syr Darya River off-flow into Bolshoi Aral could not stop this process. In October 2002 the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan signed the Agreement on funding the project concerning regulation of Syr Darya River and Northern Part of Aral Sea with the World Bank. This Agreement stipulates the allocation
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Kazakhstan
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Climate Change Mitigation
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2004
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30,680.00
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Phase 2
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Project Number: KAZ/03/24 |
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Kazakhstan, that is a party to the international treaties concerning prevention of the climate change, is the largest source of the greenhouse gases discharge in the Central Asia. The latter circumstance is stipulated by the fact that because of ( ... )
imatic conditions Kazakhstan consumes the immense volume of heat energy (hereinafter abbreviated as HE). The cities and towns account for more than 60% of heat energy and therein a portion of the residential sector in terms of the heat consumption amounts approximately to 80%. Almost 50% of the heat demand of Kazakhstani cities and towns is satisfied at the account of the SHS, which,
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Kazakhstan
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International Waters
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2004
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2,000.00
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Phase 2
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Project Number: KAZ/04/07 |
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Today the problem of the Irtysh river pollution is investigated by many state environmental departments and NGOs. This work is basically has a scientific orientation. But environmental education of the local population stays apart, and this factor ( ... )
es local community participation in decision of environmental problems.
The project raises awareness of young people about environmental situation with the Irtysh river as the bigest transboundary reservoir of the country. During the project a 10-day's ecological camp in the form of an alloy will be arranged to draw attention of youth to the issues of Irtysh protection. Experts of other NGOs
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Kazakhstan
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Climate Change Mitigation
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2004
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35,231.00
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Phase 2
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Project Number: KAZ/04/12 |
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Impetuous development of the cattle breeding is a tendency for present for the southern regions of the country. The unutilized cattle wastes increasing methane and carbonic gas in the atmosphere, and also they become a source of epidemics and ( ... )
butions of weed plants. Despite of a huge volume of cattle-breeding wastes, there is no any manufacture to extract methane out of cattle wastes and their processing into organic fertilizers. Cattle-breeding complexes use coal and wood for forage preparation and premises heating. The second problem is land degradation.
The project is directed to implementation of industrial biogas installation
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Kazakhstan
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International Waters
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2004
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2,000.00
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Phase 2
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Project Number: KAZ/04/08 |
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The project is based on the territory where a serious problem takes place: pollution of the river Ishim by agricultural waste and household dust; low educational level of the local community in environmental issues.
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lanned to study flora and fauna of the river, implement a number of nature protection measures, establish control mechanism over springs and coasts, form positive attitude of the population to environmental problems. Besides, realization of a special program named "Revival" including lessons and out-of-class actions on ecology at schools. Also trainings for schoolchildren are planned; a regional
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Kazakhstan
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Climate Change Mitigation
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2004
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12,000.00
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Phase 2
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Project Number: KAZ/04/01 |
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The project gives a special significance to green house gasses absorption through conservation of rare and unique lilac species developed through the laborious fifty years? selection by two fellow-countrymen, Sagitova Maryam and Tadeusz Dzevitsky. ( ... )
nservation is crucial due to degradation of the site of mother lilac garden, a place of seed and seedling materials for lilac promulgation, as well as due to shrinkage of lilac species in the city parks. The real threat of losing the lilac genetic fund in Almaty was a result of the growing demand for land for construction inside the city, mass unregulated cutting, devastation of lilac from the
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Kazakhstan
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Climate Change Mitigation
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2004
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22,425.00
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Phase 2
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Project Number: KAZ/04/10 |
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Fuel and energy supply of the rural areas is poor. The main causes are increase of prices for fuel and energy and decrease of leaving standard of the population. Thus, population uses local natural resources, such as wood, bush and dry manure for ( ... )
g, which leads to the environment intensive destruction, especially to soil erosion. Deficiency of fuel and energy and poor constructive quality of inhabited rural houses (heat-shielding of the houses is low, i.e. 50-60 % of the family budget is spent for heating) lead to the situation when the temperature inside the premises is much below comfortable, that causes diseases of tenants, especially
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Kazakhstan
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Biodiversity
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2004
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10,000.00
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Phase 2
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Project Number: KAZ/04/03 |
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The ecosystem of Alakol Lake is located in the unique natural and climatic conditions, which together with the favorable geographical location determines the attractiveness of this territory for a huge number of the globally valuable avifauna ( ... )
s. One of the main migration paths of the birds in the South-East of Kazakhstan crosses this territory. There are 314 bird species at the lakes, including 286 nesting species. The numbers of the birds migrating in spring and autumn amount to several million. There have been observed 34 bird species that have entered the Red Data Book, such as rose-colored and Dalmatian pelican, diving duck
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Kazakhstan
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International Waters
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2004
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9,000.00
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Phase 2
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Project Number: KAZ/03/23 |
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Balkhash is an undrained lake located in Balkhash ? Alakol watersink. It is the third largest lake in Kazakhstan with the total surface of 18.2 thousand sq.m, length of 614 km and width of 30 km. It is a unique lake; the water in its eastern part ( ... )
ine, while the water in the western part thereof is fresh. Ili, Karatal and other rivers run into the lake. Pribalkhashie (near-Balkhash area) nature is unique and full of contrasts. The water reservoirs of Ili-Balkhash watershed are the most significant in terms of diversity of flora and fauna. Thousands of flights of different species of birds, including 20 species that have been registered
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Kazakhstan
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Biodiversity
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2004
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9,000.00
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Phase 2
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Project Number: KAZ/03/25 |
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For the last 15 years, as a result of the man-caused pressure, the population of saiga in Kazakhstan that presently amounts to 70% of the total world population has faced the danger of extinction. As of today this species of ancient steppe antelope ( ... )
esented by 5 dissociated groupings of 5-15 thousand of animal units each: Mongolian (in Mongo-lia), Kalmyk (in the Russian Federation), Urals (Kazakhstan), Usturt (Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan) and Turgai-Betpakdala (Kazakhstan), which keep decreasing by 20-40% per year. If this population decline rate is preserved, then taking into account the biological peculiarities of this species (a
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Kazakhstan
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Land Degradation
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2004
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450.00
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Phase 2
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Project Number: KAZ/04/11 |
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The long-fellow land territory of the Akmola province is 1,052 million in hectares, which is 21% of the plough lands. The most part of them is salted grounds. The yield of the salted lands is 2-3 centners per hectar of a poor quality hay. As a ( ... )
of the land degradation and pastures insufficient use, valuable feed crops are lost, only the low-grade and deleterious grammas have left.
Scientific research and industrial experience proves that productivity of the salted lands can be 3-4 times increased due to melioration process implementation. The most fundamental method that could be used is phosphogipsum application.
The project
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Kazakhstan
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International Waters
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2004
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2,000.00
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Phase 2
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Project Number: KAZ/04/09 |
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Practically all water basins of Kazakhstan are transboundary ones, and each faces pollution problem and lack of water resources. Kazakhstan had signed and ratified a number of conventions and agreements on environment, some of them directly touch ( ... )
problems, such as Convention on protection and use of transboundary water basins, the Frame agreement on water partnership, and others. But international water issues are not enough highlighted in mass media. The project is directed to raising awareness of a wide audience about problems connected to transboundary water resources, and also attraction of the public to the decision of these
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Kazakhstan
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International Waters
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2004
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2,000.00
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Phase 2
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Project Number: KAZ/04/06 |
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Irtysh is a transboundary river, and it?s a unique water source for many big cities, numerous villages and settlements of the country. At the moment according to the independent revaluation results pollution of Irtysh in East Kazakhstan is at ( ... )
e level.
The main polluting factors are industrial wastes, emergency condition of cleaning constructions in large cities, radioactive substances pollution, condominium sector wastes pollution, poor ecological culture of the population. All these negatively influence on climate conditions, landscape degradation, flood-lands desertification, fish-stocks reduction.
The purpose of the project
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Kazakhstan
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Biodiversity
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2003
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2,000.00
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Phase 2
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Project Number: KAZ/03/11 |
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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 ( ... )
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
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Kazakhstan
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Multifocal Area
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2003
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31,320.00
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Phase 2
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Project Number: KAZ/03/22 |
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When analyzing the activity of the GEF SGP' partners it was found out that Kazakhstan public ecological organizations do not have a clear understanding of the GEF/SGP priorities and criteria. Many ecological NGOs of Kazakhstan know about the ( ... )
m, however, not many of them are familiar with the procedure of submitting the applications and especially with the project selection criteria. Many NGOs located in the remote places do not have access even to Internet, not to mention the e-mail. Moreover, the GEF/SGP criteria appear to be rather complex for ordinary NGOs and require additional comments. So or organization proposes to hold a
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Kazakhstan
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Biodiversity
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2003
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15,000.00
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Phase 2
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Project Number: KAZ/03/17 |
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For more than 50 years during summer and autumn time the numerous groups of amateur tourists and climbers have been rushing to the exceptionally beautiful area near Belukha Mountain. Mainly the tourists use the well-known route ?Yazevoe Village ? ( ... )
okkol Waterfall?. As a rule, nobody accompanies the tourists. As a result the number of marks left after bonfires in the most beautiful places keeps increasing, the meadows are trampled down, springs and forest meadows are contaminated with rubbish and fires destroy the habitat of the valuable forest species. As a result, for the last twenty years 50% of reserves of the plants in the foothills
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