Conserving Fruit Trees and Wild Berry Biodiversity in Northern Kyrgyzstan

Gulmira Sariyeva, PhD, Issyk-Kul State University and Muhabbat Turdieva, Biodiversity International
Mountain Societies Research Institute, University of Central Asia

Central Asia and Afghanistan Research Fellowships (CAARF) were awarded by
the University of Central Asia’s Mountain Societies Research Institute to qualified
researchers from Afghanistan, the Kyrgyz Republic, and Tajikistan. Fellows’
research was centred around learning from and for sustainable development
in mountain societies of the Tien Shan, Pamir and Hindu Kush ranges in
Central Asia, with a special focus on environmental change, natural resources
governance, and the social and economic impacts of mountain development.