An unfavorable environmental situation currently exists at Issyk-Kul, which has already led to a decline in the recreational value of the lake complex and, if current negative trends continue, could lead to irreversible environmental and economic losses.
In the past, in Kyrgyzstan — one of the main livestock-raising republics of the former Soviet Union — livestock was kept on pasture plots assigned to kolkhozes and sovkhozes.
The main problem of the Sary-Chelek Reserve is the village of Arkyt, located within the reserve, which represents the main source of anthropogenic pressure on the reserve's ecosystem in the form of livestock grazing, firewood harvesting, gathering of nuts and berries, and illegal hunting.
The formation of ecological consciousness is not the sole province of environmental education. Ecological consciousness is part of general culture.
Ecological consciousness is a person's understanding of the surrounding natural world, of the basic patterns of interaction with it, and of ways to improve that interaction.
We share the Chui Valley with Kazakhstan, where the river flows onward to disappear into the sands of the Moyunkum Desert. The upper part of the basin lies in the Inner Tian Shan. The Chu River itself begins at the confluence of the Karakudzhur River, which collects water from the syrts south of Lake Issyk-Kul
The nut-fruit forests of southern Kyrgyzstan and their wildlife, as a unique creation of nature, have attracted the attention of many scholars.
Our knowledge can be compared to a search for a path toward an unclear goal, which becomes marked only after one has chosen the right direction, and takes final shape only once one has found the right way, the right means of achieving it.
For the Kyrgyz, the most blessed and bountiful time and place have long been summer and jailoo — the high-mountain pastures to which they drove their herds.
There are several important methodological premises on which it is advisable to rely when discussing questions of forecasting.
Democracy is the power that currently exists, plus a press in solidarity with it.
'Democrat' has a proud ring to it. Not every commoner is granted the honor of bearing such a title. Better that only one bear it — and serve as an example for the rest.
Becoming a true democrat is so difficult that, as a rule, only one person in the country manages to do it.
The surface of our planet is not uniform. It is divided into water and land, plains and mountains, warm and cold, humid and arid regions. It is also divided among living creatures, different species of which have adapted to live under a wide variety of conditions.
