Zaamin Mountainous Forest (Juniper) Reserve, Uzbekistan

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The Juniper (founded in 1926) is in Djizak region in the west part of the Turkestan Ridge. The area is 10.500 ha.
The sides of the mountains are covered with juniper forests and higher-with alpine meadows. The highest mountain point is 3500 metres above sea-level.

Such animals as wild boars, wolves, foxes, porcupines, badgers, hares inhabit the area. There are bears and lynxes in the forest juniper belt. Subalpine zone is inhabited with more than 350 wild mountain goats. There are plenty of birds in the juniper zone: stone grouse, rose starlings, larks, kestrels, magpies, thrushes. But the most characteristic bird is the juniper grosbeak. Birds of prey are represented by the sparrow-hawk, the golden eagle, the white-head griffin, and the bearded vulture. The black stork nests in the Chantanga Gorge.

There are over 700 species of plants under protection in the reserve.

Source: http://www.orexca.com/nature_reserves.shtml

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