Publication
Conservation Impact Report 2023
This report pulls together data from across our projects to give an overview of our conservation impact in 2023.
Fauna & Flora is working with local partners in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to conserve fruit-and-nut forests.
Our work in Central Asia’s fruit-and-nut forests
Fauna & Flora is working in Central Asia’s fruit-and-nut forests to conserve the forests and its species by:
- Helping local communities develop sustainable livelihoods to reduce pressure on forest resources.
- Planting nursery-grown seedlings to boost the wild populations of key tree species and improve the connectivity of existing forests.
- Fencing off households and forest monitoring plots that contain endangered apple, pear and other fruit and nut trees to protect them from grazing and illegal logging.
- Strengthening government capacity to manage the fruit-and-nut forests.
Project goals
Our long-term aim is to ensure the full recovery of Central Asia’s fruit-and-nut forest landscapes, thus supporting the well-being and resilience of forest communities. This project is laying the foundation for the long-term objective of transferring management responsibilities to local stakeholders. We will reach this goal by:
- Supporting people from local communities to participate in forest management and benefit from sustainable harvesting of non-timber forest products.
- Improving information on the distribution of and threats to target species to inform and enhance management on the ground by governmental bodies and private plot-holders.
- Ensuring the most sensitive areas are protected from over-grazing, allowing the forests to recover naturally.
- Promoting the recovery of diverse, resilient and healthy forests, enriched by planting at least 30,000 native trees in areas that increase connectivity between sub-populations.
© Akylai Kabaeva / Fauna & Flora
Project timeline
Tajik pears © Shosafed Taibov / Fauna & Flora
2022
Central database containing data from all pear surveys in Tajikistan created.
© Rasima Sabzalieva / Fauna & Flora
2020
Over 575,000 trees planted in nurseries and forests across two reserves in Tajikistan.
Fencing plot in Kyzyl-Unkur © Akylai Kabaeva / Fauna & Flora
2014
First fences to protect wild pear trees from grazing erected in Tajikistan.
Project partners
This project is delivered in partnership with:
- Institute of Biology of the National Academy of Science of Kyrgrz Republic
- Kyzyl-Unkur Forestry Unit
- Achy Forestry Unit
- Arstanbap-Ata Forestry Unit
- Kyrgyz-Turkish Manas University
- Local Government Forest Service Units
- Kulob Botanical Garden
- Gareev Botanical Garden
- Zam Zam
- Ganji Tabiat
- National Academy of Sciences of the RT
- Missouri Botanical Garden
- Kara Alma Forestry Unit
Donors
We are grateful for financial support from:
Saving Central Asia’s fruitful forests, together
The wild ancestors of our apples and pears desperately need our help.
Please support our efforts to protect them.
Bukharan pear © Shosafed Taibov / Fauna & Flora
Country Director, Kyrgyzstan
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