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In May 2022, 35 elks were brought to the national reserve ‘Besh-Tash’ in Talas region from Altai. Elks, like snow leopards, are totem animals of the Kyrgyz and are deeply respected by the people. Therefore, the arrival of elks was taken very positively. But in terms of the science, it was not so amazing. The Altai subspecies of elks may become the reason for disappearance of the Tien Shan elk, the indigenous inhabitant of the lands of Kyrgyzstan.
CABAR.asia correspondent visited the border area between Uzbekistan and Afghanistan to see how the construction of the Qosh Tepa Canal by Afghanistan is affecting the irrigation system in Uzbekistan already.
The town of Jarkent (Kazakhstan) was founded in 1882 on the border of China as a trade settlement, where many ethnicities were merchants: Kazakhs, Uighurs, Russians, Dungans, Chinese. Trade flourished, the town developed, while local merchants invested money not only in their businesses, but also in the town architecture. As a result, a unique wooden mosque built in the form of a Chinese pagoda, a multilayer Buddhist or Taoist temple, has reached our days. (more…)
Central Asian tortoise is endemic to the steppes and deserts of Central Asia. This specie is a threatened specie, i.e. at risk of extinction and humans are to blame for it. Tortoises often become victims of poaching, get stuck in trenches dug out by farmers around their fields. Few enthusiasts care about saving the Central Asian tortoises in Kazakhstan. They hope to draw attention to the issues of tortoises and preserve the population of species. (more…)
Gender stereotypes continue to influence career choices: despite girls’ achievements in exact sciences at school, preference is still given to humanitarian specialties. How does this happen? Let’s see data.
On April 10, 2024, several thousand people gathered in the central mosque of Almaty, the largest metropolitan city of the republic, to pray at one of the most important holidays of the Muslims, Oraza Ait. (more…)
Women continue to be killed. Why does Kyrgyzstan not recognize the existence of femicide at the legislative level? (more…)
“I have always wanted to see Aral first-hand. Back in the school days, in the USA, we were told during classes how the Aral dried up. The rivers that flew into the sea were used to irrigate fields,” Carolina Solomon, an American student, said. She managed to see Aral when she volunteered in the environmental campaign to restore the Aral ecosystem “Syr korgany sekseyil” (translated from Kazakh as ‘Haloxylon – the support of Syrdarya’). (more…)
The remediation of uranium mill tailings has been discussed for over 10 years in Kyrgyzstan. In 2023, remediation of the four uranium mill tailings was started in the village of Min-Kush, which raises concerns of local residents. (more…)