Saryarka Steppe and Lakes of Northern Kazakhstan
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Saryarka Steppe and Lakes of Northern Kazakhstan
Location
Saryarka
Country
Kazakhstan
Year of Research
2008
Culture
- Saryarka - grassland and Lakes of Northern Kazakhstan comprises two protected areas: Naurzum State Nature Reserve and Korgalzhyn State Nature Reserve totalling 450,344 ha.
- It features marshland of outstanding significance for migratory water birds, including internationally threatened species, among them the extremely rare Siberian white crane, the Dalmatian pelican, Pallas’s fish eagle, to name but a few.
- These wetlands are key stopover points and crossroads on the Central Asian flyway of birds from Africa, Europe and South Asia to their reproduction places in Western and Eastern Siberia.
- The 200,000 ha Central Asian steppe areas integrated in the property provide a valuable protection for over half the species of the region’s steppe flora, a number of threatened bird species and the critically endangered Saiga antelope, formerly an abundant species much reduced by poaching.
- The land integrated two committees of fresh and salt water lakes situated on a watershed between rivers flowing north to the Arctic and south into the Aral-Irtysh basin.
