Turkmenistan’s “Mountain Ecosystems of Koytendag” (MEK) make up one of the most distinctive and richly biodiverse landscapes in Central Asia. However, the area faces mounting threats to its conservation, including agricultural expansion, overgrazing, illegal hunting, and unmanaged tourism. As part of our project 'Connectivity, Capacity, and Cats: Building Resiliency in the Mountain Ecosystems of Koytendag,' funded by the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF), national and internati...| Center for Large Landscape Conservation
The Center for Large Landscape Conservation is proud to be part of growing collaboration across a globally important biodiversity hotspot in Central Asia that has, among other progress, yielded important scientific evidence about the presence of an endangered and charismatic species—the Persian leopard (Panthera pardus tulliana)—in Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan.| Center for Large Landscape Conservation
Uzbekistan's Surkhan State Nature Reserve: 4th ground testing of IUCN Connectivity Guidelines The Kugitang Mountains, a spur at the south-western end of the broader Pamir-Alay mountain range, run along a north-south axis on the southernmost stretch of border between Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan. To the west, Turkmenistan’s| Conservation Corridor
Turkmenistan's Koytendag State Nature Reserve: 2nd ground testing of IUCN Connectivity Guidelines Located in southeast Turkmenistan, on the border with Uzbekistan and close to Afghanistan, the Mountain Ecosystems of Koytendag (MEK) are one of the most distinctive landscapes in Central Asia. The region extends from the hot, dry,| Conservation Corridor