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Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan (NABS)
NABS Public Association in Kyrgyzstan is the BirdLife Affiliate in Kyrgyzstan.
Founded in: 2000Members: 15
Staff: 42
Address: 24 Tabatshnaja str.
Bishkek 720011, Kyrgyz Republic
Email: nabs-wildlife@mail.ru
Web: http://www.wildlife.kg/
Mission of the organisation
To study and conserve biodiversity in montane and desert habitats of Tian-Shan and adjacent areas
Key Activities
- Monitoring of birds in the country
- Updating the birds (vertebrates) checklist of Kyrgyzstan by running monitoring programme, www.wildlife.kg to include observations
- Determination and description of IBAs
- Establishment of new “private” reserves in cooperation with the local authorities and local populations / land users
- Providing the action of “Bird of the year” (initiated by NABS in 2005 for the whole central Asian region)
- Improve public awareness for bird conservation, especially among young people, through special 1-day programmes in schools and our own evironmental education centre in Bishkek
- Running our own environmental education centre in Bishkek for special workshops about bird conservation with key stakeholders (officials, teachers, farmers, herders)
- Fighting against poaching of threatened birds, confiscation, releasing birds back into the nature in NABS own rehabilitation centre
- Running own rehabilitation and wildlife protection centres for further environmental education work