Conservation and Sustainable Management of High-Value Arid Ecosystems in the Lower Amu Darya Basin sin project
Funded by the Global Environment Facility, the project’s objective of the project is to secure high-value arid ecosystem biodiversity and associated ecosystem services, while ensuring resilient and sustainable livelihoods in Tajikistan’s lower Amu Darya landscape. The project will address key threats and corresponding barriers to sustainable land management and biodiversity conservation within dry forests and other Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) found in Tajikistan’s Khatlon region.
Status: | Active |
Duration: | 01/05/2023 - 14/09/2028 |
Budget: | US$ 2,639,726 |
Coverage: | Khatlon region |
Beneficiaries: | Local population, landowners and land users, pastoralists, and smallholder agricultural producers (communities in buffer zones, around SPNAs, in and around KBAs) |
Partners: | National Biodiversity and Biosafety Center (NBBC) of the Committee for Environmental Protection under the Government of Tajikistan |