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Further work of the Regional Secretariat of CADI project was discussed in Tashkent

On June 9, 2022, the Regional CADI Secretariat held a Regional Workshop in Tashkent within the framework of the CADI (Central Asian Desert Initiative) project. It was organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the State Forestry Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan in cooperation with the University of Greifswald (Germany) and the Michael Succow Foundation.

Representatives of international organizations, development agencies, national partner ministries and members of the National CADI Secretariats from Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan participated in this event. The regional workshop helped to discuss a status as NGO, organizational structure and statutory document of the Regional CADI Secretariat; finetune its Program of Work; and explore resource mobilization opportunities for the Regional CADI Secretariat.

Abduvohid Zakhadullayev, head of the department of international relations and ecotourism development of the State Committee on Forestry of the Republic of Uzbekistan, noted the successful work of the project and expressed hope that the future work of the Regional Secretariat will contribute to the implementation of the UN Conventions adopted in Rio de Janeiro in 2012 – Convention to Combat Desertification, Convention on Biological Diversity and the Framework Convention on Climate Change.

Temurbek Reymov, Coordinator of Interim Regional CADI Secretariat, said that the CADI Regional Secretariat is expected to be a successor of all CADI activities in Central Asia and noted that the Secretariat is open to other countries wishing to support the initiative to conserve unique ecosystems of global significance.

Foto: FAO

Online-Article on uzdaily.uz from 10 June 20222 (in Russian)

Agenda: Regional Workshop of the Regional CADI Secretariat

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FAO and Freiburg University experts discussed Integrated Land Use Management Systems in Uzbekistan

On 9 February 2022, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) held a virtual workshop with experts from Freiburg University on Integrated Land Use Management Systems (ILUMS) in Uzbekistan.

The workshop was organized in order to present the research work carried out within the CADI project to the national partners from Uzbekistan. Representatives from the State Forestry Committee of Uzbekistan and graduate and postgraduate students from local universities participated in the workshop.

During the workshop, participants discussed advanced agroforestry practices, evaluated the current state of integrated land use management systems in the region and exchanged potential ideas for future collaboration between organizations. Representatives of academic institutions from Uzbekistan expressed interest in future academic collaboration through joint postgraduate programs to strengthen the capacity of local specialists.

Professors from the University of Freiburg discussed the potential of agroforestry as a profitable area in Uzbekistan, providing detailed information on the challenges of cooperative management agreements and recommendations for future work.

In addition, the researchers presented recommendations for joint management in agroforestry, including the establishment of a control system with regard to forest conservation, restoration and reproduction, the creation of an accounting and monitoring system, and an integrated system for planning and monitoring the production and management of various types of forestry products.

Source: https://www.uzdaily.uz/en/post/71335

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Hot start of a new CADI Fellow

CADI-Fellow, Associate at the Research Institute of Zoology at Kazakhstan Ministry of Education and Science, Marina Chirikova, is not only a science-focused person but also committed to the environmental education of young people and students.

Right after her first expedition to the South Kazakhstan region Tschuli, Ms Chirikova organized a seminar for pupils of the school Nr. 5 in Almaty. The main topics were the conservation of cold winter deserts as well as the Red List of endangered amphibian and reptile species in Kazakhstan. Afterwards, she held a lecture on reptile’s diversity at the Kazakh State Women Pedagogical University.

“Educational measures, especially for the protection of reptiles, are not always easy to carry out”, explains Marina Chirikova. “People have many prejudices towards them.”

However, education is an important part of science, states Ms Chirikova. She plans on having more lectures at schools and continuing her work on an overview of relevant environment protection literature within the CADI project.

Moreover, Marina held a lecture on “Autumn activity of reptiles in southern Kazakhstan” on 6 November 2018 as part of the conference “Ecology and conservation of wildlife”.

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