Uzbekistan and Tajikistan are developing cooperation on the creation of cross-border protected areas

    Environment 16 February 2024 1761

    On the sidelines of the 14th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on the Protection of Migratory Wild Animals, Chairman of the Committee for Environmental Protection under the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan Bahodur Sheralizod met with Minister of Ecology, Environmental Protection and Climate Change of the Republic of Uzbekistan Aziz Abdukhakimov.

    The issues of implementation of the memorandum of understanding on environmental protection and rational use of natural resources were considered. Topics related to cooperation in the field of increasing the population of urials, other wild animals and birds in the Romit State Nature Reserve and in various regions of Tajikistan, the creation of transboundary protected areas and joint activities related to improving the knowledge of specialists in the management of protected areas, and a number of other issues were also touched upon.

    Bahodur Sheralizoda invited Aziz Abdukhakimov to the International Conference of the Decade of Action "Water for Sustainable Development, 2018-2028", which will be held in June in Dushanbe.