Karaul settlement is a centre of Abay district. The population is 5233 people, 1104 courtyards, 21 farmlands, cattle stock is 21079 heads, the pastures territory is 57 thousand hectares. Cattle-breading is traditional for this area. After the soviet system has collapsed, the pasturing system has also fallen down. Local people haven?t had a possibility to rent the land for pasturing. As a result, the cattle have been breading round the village for many years. As the number of the cattle has increased during the previous years, the pressure on the pastures round the settlement has intensified. There are some remote areas that have been used in the soviet period, but couldn?t be used as pastures now due to lack of water sources.

Project aim:
Decreasing the load on pastures and combating to land degradation on the territory of Karaul rural district (Abay district, Eastern Kazakhstan).

Project tasks:
- Develop and implement pastures rational use scheme on the territory of Karaul rural district with attraction of experts;
- Arrange water supply of pastures on the territory of 50 K hectares through 3 wells drilling, and to move over 20 K cattle out of Karaul settlement to the remote pastures,
- Realize informational activity among local community and farmers by means of organization and holding of meetings and spreading out of informational materials on pasturing and pastures rational use.

Project results:
- Greater part of the cattle (18000 heads) moved to the remote pastures;
- 3 remote pasture territories w supplied with draw-wells (3), summer jurts (2), winter hut, watering systems (3) and petrol pumps (3);
- Herders work is arranged and adjusted on the 3 remote pasturing territories;
- Seasonal cattle breading arranged in a radius of 40-50 km round the settlement on the territory of over 43 thousand hectares
- The rational pastures use system spread out on the regional level, and duplicated on the territory of neighboring settlements.