Chatkal Mountainous Forest Reserve, Uzbekistan

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The Chatkal Mountainous (founded in 1947) is on the spurs of the Chatkal Ridge of the west part of the Tien-Shan Mountains. The area is 35.000 ha. Divided by gorges, the mountains of the reserve reach high over 3.500 metres above sea-level.

There are about 600 species of grasses and about 40 species of bushes in the reserve. Considerable part of the slopes is covered with natural juniper forests and with different bushes. There are birch groves along the river banks. Sea-buckthorn, walnut trees, rowan-trees, stone trees, pistachio-trees, and a large number of other species, which are endemic in the area of the west Tien-Shan Mountains, grow in the reserve.

Of animals, there are wild mountain goats, bears, wild boars, foxes, marmots. The snow leopard can be found high in the mountains. Birds are represented by the stone grouse, the partridge. The area of Bashkizylsai is notable for its rock paintings and petrogliphs depicting wild animals being hunted by primitive men.

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