Tien-Shan Brown Bear in Zaamin's camera trap
2024-12-20 11:30:00 / News
A Tien-Shan Brown Bear is listed in the IUCN Red List and the Red Book of Uzbekistan as a vulnerable, mosaically distributed subspecies. It lives in the Western Tien Shan and Pamir Alay (in Tashkent, Jizzakh, Surkhandarya, Kashkadarya, and Samarkand regions of the republic).
In the 1970s and 1980s, their numbers in the Western Tien Shan were only 200-220 individuals, but thanks to conservation measures, the number of brown bears has stabilized in recent decades and amounts to more than 500 individuals throughout the country. According to the autumn accounting of the current year, the number of brown bears in the territory of the Zaamin State Reserve amounted to 24 individuals.
For reference: The Zaamin State Reserve was established on June 5, 1928, on the territory of the Zaamin and Bakhmal districts of the Jizzakh region. The reserve is home to 149 species of animals, 17 of which are listed in the Red Book of Uzbekistan.