The Red Book of the Republic of Tajikistan ( Tajik. Kitobi Surkhi Ҷumgurii Tokikiston ) is an official state document that contains an annotated list of the rarest and endangered species of flora and fauna within the territory of Tajikistan , as well as a summary of the distribution, current status of these species, causes reduction in numbers, and measures for their conservation and reproduction.
Species of plants and animals listed in the Red Book of the Republic of Tajikistan are subject to special protection throughout the country.
Content
- 1 History
- 2 Environmental categories
- 3 Notes
- 4 Literature
History
The first Red Book, devoted to the flora and fauna of the Tajik SSR , was published in 1988. It contained a description of 162 species of animals and 226 species of higher plants. In 1997, the book was translated into Tajik [1] .
On August 2, 2010, Decree No. 387 of the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan “On the Approval of the Regulation on the Red Book of the Republic of Tajikistan” announced the need to develop and issue a new edition of the book [2] . On February 26, 2015, Decree No. 65 approved the Committee for Environmental Protection as the body responsible for the control and conservation of species listed in the Red Book of the Republic of Tajikistan [3] .
On June 24, 2015, Tajikistan officially joined the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora ( CITES ), which completed the list of primary requirements of the International Union for Conservation of Nature to streamline environmental legislation [4] .
October 15, 2015 saw the light of the second edition of the Red Book, developed by the Committee on Environmental Protection and the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tajikistan [5] . It included 267 species of higher plants and 222 species of animals (of which 43 species of birds , 44 - mammals , 31 - reptiles , 14 - fish , 81 - insects and 9 species of mollusks ) [6] .
Conservation categories
- EX - Apparently, extinct species.
- EW - Species extinct in the wild.
- CR - Species in critical condition (on the verge of extinction).
- EN - Endangered species.
- VU - Vulnerable species (declining in numbers, naturally rare).
Notes
- ↑ Kitobi Surkhi of Ҷumҳuria Toҷikiston, 2015 , p. four.
- ↑ Kitobi Surkhi of Ҷumguriya Toҷikiston az chop baromad (taj.) . jahonnamo.tj. (inaccessible link)
- ↑ Kitobi Surkhi of Ҷumҳuria Toҷikiston, 2015 , p. 8.
- ↑ Toҷikiston Convention and CITES-ro tasdiқ card (taj.) . news.tj.
- ↑ Nashri duumi “Kitobi Surkh” - and Ҷumҳurii Toҷikiston (taj.) (Inaccessible link) . khovar.tj. Date of treatment May 4, 2019. Archived March 4, 2016.
- ↑ Kitobi Surkhi of Ҷumҳuria Toҷikiston, 2015 , p. eleven.
Literature
- Red Book of the Tajik SSR: Rare and Endangered Species of Animals and Plants / A.I. Juice. - Dushanbe: Donish, 1988 .-- 336 p.
- Kitobi Surkhi of Ҷumgurii Toҷikiston: Olami nobotot wa ҳayvonot / Sh. Kurbonov, A. Toshev. - 2nd ed. - Dushanbe: Donish, 2015 .-- 535 p. - ISBN 978-9975-45-07-7.