AGP Executive Report
Last update: 9 hours agoCOP17 Push: At the biodiversity summit in Yerevan on Oct. 16, President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev urged countries to turn environmental pledges into action. He proposed a fund for rare species, a UN biodiversity secretariat branch in Almaty and using Astana’s AI centre for conservation research; Kazakhstan is also establishing a national genetic biodiversity bank. Species Recovery: Tokayev said Kazakhstan’s saiga population has climbed from 21,000 in 2003 to 4.7 million, while snow leopard numbers have reached nearly 190. A tiger was returned to the wild in July for the first time in 70 years. Caspian at Risk: Kazakhstan called for international cooperation to protect the Caspian Sea, where declining seal numbers have raised alarm, and is advancing a joint programme to conserve the sea’s water resources.
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