The overall goal of CACILM is restoration, maintenance, and enhancement of the productive functions of land leading to the improved economic and social well-being of those who depend on these resources while preserving the environmental functions of these lands in the spirit of UNCCD.
This project complemented the governmental efforts in expanding and strengthening the PA System, and addressing the above barriers by two components:
(i) Expanding protected area system to improve the representation and coverage;
(ii) Supporting development of adequate systemic, institutional and individual capacity for management of the expanded protected area system.
The project promotes the long-term sustainable management of the Ustyurt landscape, focusing on the critically endangered saiga antelope.
The project objective was to mainstream biodiversity conservation into Uzbekistan’s oil-and-gas policies and operations by demonstrating this in the Ustyurt Plateau. The project removed systemic, regulatory and knowledge barriers through two outcomes: i) Enabling policy, legislative, and institutional environment for mainstreaming biodiversity conservation considerations in the oil-and-gas sector, and ii) Demonstrating biodiversity mainstreaming technologies in oil-and-gas operations on the Ustyurt Plateau. The immediate global benefits include mainstreaming of biodiversity into the oil-and-gas sector at project sites having a positive impact on an area more than 2 million hectares. This ensured population stability of a number of threatened species, including Houbara bustard, Caracal, Goitered gazelle, Ustyurt urial and the Saiga antelope.
Partners: MOA – Ministry of Agriculture
Executing Agency – Ministry of Environmental Protection
Executing Agency – Local communities and non-governmental organizations
Executing Agency – Local governance bodies
Executing Agency – Agency for Land Resource ManagementImplementing Agency – Association for the Conservation of Biodiversity of Kazakhstan
An overall objective of the EURECA Programme is to promote and support enhanced regional co-operation on environment and water both between EU and Central Asia and within Central Asia.
The goal of the project is to strengthen Uzbekistan’s protected area system. The objective of the project is to develop successful, cost-effective, and replicable approaches towards effective management of strict nature reserves. These reserves represent the most numerous and important instrument of in situ biodiversity conservation in the country.
The objective of the Forest Protection and Reforestation Project for Kazakhstan is to develop cost effective and sustainable environmental rehabilitation and management of forest landsandas sociated rangelands, with a focus on the Irtysh pine forest, the dry Aral Seabed, and saxaul rangelands.
The conservation programme known as the Altyn Dala Conservation Initiative (Altyn Dala means ’golden steppe’ in Kazakh) created an integrated network of protected grassland habitats reserves extending through central Kazakhstan. Over 5.2 million hectares have already been legally protected, but Altyn Dala plans to increase this by up to five million hectares. This network protectedd and restored vast areas of steppe grassland and semi-desert that make up the typical landscapes of Central Asia. Historically, saiga antelope and other grazing mammals, such as kulan (wild asses), helped to maintain these grasslands and the continued existence of these grazers is crucial to preserving this area, of of the largest remaining natural grasslands left in the world.
Countries have highlighted the need for support to create national targets and indicators linked to Aichi targets 1, 2 and 4 under strategic goal A of the global Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020 and Action 7 of the Pan-European 2020 Strategy for Biodiversity. Therefore, there is a request from countries to build capacity for a better understanding of ecosystem services and their values and how to integrate these values into policy making through their NBSAPs.
