nCa Report Any conversation about the deserts of Central Asia cannot be complete without the mention of Professor Agajan Babayev. — He is 95. He is a living legend. A geomorphologist, a world class specialist in desert typology, a mentor of three generations of academics and scholars, Babayev spent very productive 70 years in the […]
Deserts in Central Asia – Part Five
nCa Report The deserts in Central Asia are winter-cold deserts. Of all the winter-cold deserts in the world, 95% are in the Central Asian region. It puts them in a different category from the other deserts of the world. This creates a challenge for the people who are working to preserve the delicate ecosystem of […]
Deserts in Central Asia – Part Three
nCa Report In the previous part of this series, we gave some information about the Central Asia Southern Desert, comprising Kyzylkum and Karakum deserts. Now let us look at what is called the Central Asian Northern Desert. Central Asian Northern Desert Again, the narrative is from One Earth, with some slight editing: https://www.oneearth.org/ecoregions/central-asian-northern-desert/ The Central […]
Deserts in Central Asia – Part One
nCa Report There are some 14 territories and areas in Central Asia that are categorized as deserts. Some of them are in this category mainly for technical reasons and one of them should not have existed at all. The total area of deserts in Central Asia comes to about 1.5 million square km. This should […]
Central Asian Desert Initiative (CADI) – Conservation and Sustainable Use of Turkmenistan Deserts
Shirin Karryyeva, Project Manager CADI in Turkmenistan In 2019, the regional project of the Ministry of Agriculture and Environmental Protection of Turkmenistan and the Michael Zukkov Foundation (Germany) launched the Central Asian Desert Initiative (CADI) – Conservation and Sustainable Use of Turkmenistan Deserts. The project is funded by the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, […]