Conservation and Sustainable Use of Globally Significant Biological Diversity in Khazar Nature Reserve on the Caspian Sea Coast (Resubmission)

This project seeks to strengthen Turkmenistan’s national system of protected areas by demonstrating effective biodiversity conservation in Turkmenistan’s Khazar Nature Reserve (Khazar) on the Caspian Sea coast. The strategy proposed in this project is intended to demonstrate state-of-the-art methods and practices aimed at addressing these issues at the country’s largest protected area Khazar Natures Reserve assess the effectiveness of their application and identify best practices, and then replicate these practices and methods at other sites within the National System of Protected Areas.