Nature · Moynaq District
Aral Sea
The vanishing sea
Nature · Moynaq District
Aralkum National Nature Park
A million-hectare national park created in 2022 on former Vozrozhdeniya Island in the South Aral, to protect the new landscape of the dried seabed and fight desertification.
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About the park
Aralkum National Nature Park was established in 2022 and covers one million hectares, 585,000 of them a protection zone. It lies on the dried bed of the Aral Sea, on the former Vozrozhdeniya Island, which joined the mainland in 2001 as the water retreated; in Soviet times, until 1992, the island housed a military biological laboratory. Work here now focuses on studying the plant and animal communities forming on the Aralkum, planting desert vegetation and reducing salt and dust storms.
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