Completed projects – Institute of zoology

Cadastre of wild animals of the arid territories of the Balkhash–Alakol Basin with assessment of threats to their conservation and sustainable use

Project Leader: Marina A. Chirikova

Implementation period: 2023–2025

IRN: BR21882199

Assessment of impact linear infrastructure construction on Saiga populations and actions to reduce damage species and its ecosystems in Kazakhstan

Project Leader: Bizhanova Nazerke

Implementation period: 2023–2025

IRN: AP19680227

Sustainable development of natural, economic, and socio-economic systems of the Western Kazakhstan region in the context of green growth: comprehensive analysis, concept, forecasts, and scenarios

Head of the fauna section: Dmitry Viktorovich Malakhov

Implementation period: 2023–2025

IRN: BR21882122

«Population and conservation status of the Turkestan lynx (Lynx lynx isabellina Blyth, 1847) in the Kazakh part of the Northern Tien Shan».

Junior Researcher of Institute of Zoology and PhD-student of the Department of Biodiversity and bioresources of Al-Farabi KazNU Nazerke Alimkyzy Bizhanova received a research grant in 2019 from Rufford Small Grants. This project focused on studying population status, identification of threats for conservation of the rare Eurasian lynx subspecies – Turkestan lynx (Lynx lynx isabellina Blyth, 1847). Bizhanova Nazerke took the initiative to study this rare cat, and began this project as a team leader.

Photo trap image. Turkestan lynx (*Lynx lynx isabellina*)

Conservation and management of the brown bear (Ursus arctos) population in the Kazakh part of the Altai

Project leader: Sanzhar Sakenovich Kantarbayev

Implementation period: 2020–2025