12:34, 29 июня 2022, Bishkek - 24.kg news agency , Maria ORLOVA
The Center for Environmental Education and Rehabilitation of Wild Animals was opened in Kyrgyzstan. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported.
According to it, the center will work in Suluu-Terek mountain area in Chui region. The project is implemented by NABU-Kyrgyzstan with the financial support of NABU (Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union) and may become the largest institution of this kind in Central Asia.
The ministry noted that opening of the center was timed to the 10-year anniversary of the NABU branch in Kyrgyzstan and 30th anniversary of establishment of Kyrgyz-German diplomatic relations, as well as symbolically coincided with the announcement 2022 the Year of Mountain Ecosystems Protection and Climate Resilience in Kyrgyzstan.
«NABU has implemented a number of environmental projects in Kyrgyzstan, including protection and rehabilitation of snow leopards and other wildlife, and sponsored global forums on snow leopard conservation in Bishkek in 2013 and 2017,» the Foreign Ministry said.
The main tasks of the center are protection of wildlife, treatment, care and rehabilitation of wild animals, release of animals into the wild after rehabilitation, as well as development of ecological education of the younger generation. It will provide quality veterinary care for wild animals in a difficult situation for releasing them back into their natural habitat.