Institute of zoology Republic of Kazakhstan
On November 3, the photo exhibition “Dala qyrany izimen” (“In the Footsteps of the Steppe Eagle”) opened at Dostyk Plaza shopping mall in Almaty. The exhibition presents the results of a joint project by Toyota Kazakhstan, National Geographic Qazaqstan and the Institute of Zoology to study and conserve the steppe eagle (Aquila nipalensis), a rare bird of prey listed in the Red Data Book of Kazakhstan.
On October 31, 2026, the second Amur tiger was released into the wild in Kazakhstan at the Ile-Balkhash State Nature Reserve. The male tiger, named Amur, became the latest participant in the large-scale program to restore the tiger population within its historical range.
An educational lecture on zoology was delivered by a leading researcher at the Laboratory of Ornithology and Herpetology of the Institute of Zoology at a school in Talgar.
On 14 October, Professor Herwig Leirs, Rector of the University of Antwerp (Belgium), visited the Institute of Zoology of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Professor Leirs arrived in Kazakhstan as part of the Belgian delegation accompanying the King of the Belgians during his visit to the Republic of Kazakhstan.
On 9 October 2026, the Institute of Zoology hosted an informational and methodological seminar for young researchers on preparing and submitting applications for the Zhas Galym research grant competition.
On 9–10 October 2026, the international forum People&Projects Forum: Biomimetic & Management, dedicated to contemporary approaches to project management, was held in Astana. Among the forum’s speakers was Sergey Vladimirovich Kolov, Head of the Entomology Laboratory at the Institute of Zoology of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
Research in the Western Tien Shan has led to the rediscovery of a little-known species and the description of a new subgenus, Graeserotodes
Researchers from the Laboratory of Paleozoology of the Institute of Zoology of the Republic of Kazakhstan visited the museum at Khoja Akhmet Yassawi International Kazakh-Turkish University. Their attention was drawn to a dinosaur skeleton discovered during excavations in the Turkistan Region.
As part of the “Zhas Galym” grant funding program for research by young scientists for 2026–2028, project leader Sanzhar Kantarbayev, Junior Researcher at the Center for Biocenology and Game Management of the Institute of Zoology of the Republic of Kazakhstan, completed an internship at the Evenstad Campus of Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences (INN University, Norway).
On September 24, the premiere of the Kazakhstani documentary “SAVE THE TORTOISE”, dedicated to the work of the TASBAQA Nature Conservation Foundation to conserve the Central Asian tortoise and its habitat, was held at SmArt Space in Almaty.
