Customs of the Tashkent Airport has Detained Unique Cargo
Illegal trade of rare and disappearing species of flora and fauna is one of the significant threats for biodiversity. By opinion of experts, the profit from illegal sale of wild species of flora and fauna makes up from 500 to 1000% and annual world trade turnover of wild animals and plants makes up about USA $ 10 billion. A great part of this turnover is illegal. The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) was founded in 1973 with the purpose of preservation of rare species of animals and plants. The Convention regulates the transference of these species through boarders of the states – members of CITES. Uzbekistan joined to this Convention in 1997. The CITES Convention includes three Supplements in which about 34000 ob objects are entered. In the first Supplement the species that are under threat of disappearance are included.
Ecological Stability of Future Challenges the Youth
The state pays a great attention to youth’s education as well as to raising of the role of youth in environment protection and resolution of the actual ecological problems such as climate change, preservation of biodiversity, prevention of desertification, efficient use of national resources. At the initiative of the Committee for Agrarian and Water Economy Problems and Ecology of the Senate of Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan and the State Committee for Nature Protection the round-table meeting on the ‘Actual Ecological Problems and the Role of Youth in their Resolution’ devoted to 2010- the ‘Year of the Harmoniously Developed Generation’, was organized at the Palace of Cultural of the National University of Uzbekistan named after Mirzo Ulugbek on 26 February.
Spring is the time of revival and awakening of nature from winter hibernation. The companies that have their sites in the Internet network also try to change themselves for the better. On the eve of spring the new design of the site ECONEWS.UZ was developed for comfort of our users. New design worked out by employees of the Ecological Publishing Company ‘Chinor ENK’, reflects the last tendencies and achievements in this field, taking into consideration successful work experiences and defects of past years of work.
The 1st Number of ‘Ekologiya Xabarnomasi - Ekologichesky Vestnik’ Journal for 2010 has been Released
The first number of the journal has been released. It is devoted to the main event which defines the activity of nature protection organizations in 2010. This event is the UNO declaration of 2010 the ‘Year of Biodiversity’. The special rubric ‘Significant Date’ of this number is devoted to this event. Another important event is the Head of State’s declaration of 2010 the ‘Year of Harmoniously Developed Generation’. The journal opens special rubric devoted to this date and publishes the article by the doctor of medical sciences about the role of healthy way of life in education of the harmoniously developed personality. A number of articles on this actual topicality are planned to be published during the year.
The Plan of Action for 2010 – 2015 Opens a New Stage in Development of Ecological Initiatives and Future Projects
Lately three of UNO agencies and the government of the Republic of Uzbekistan have signed the plan of actions for 2010-2015. Thus they marked the beginning of new stage of relations of UNO and Uzbekistan. Uzbekistan became a full member of UNO in 1992 and in 1993 the first Representatives Office of UNO was opened in Tashkent. Now seven of UNO agencies are carrying out their work in Uzbekistan.
“Having signed the new Plans of actions, the UNO entered into more close and deepened partnership with the government and people of Uzbekistan in common efforts aimed at assistance to the positive changes of social and economic situation in the country”- Mrs. Anita Nirodi, the Permanent Coordinator of UNO and the Permanent Representative of UNDP (United Nations Development Program) in Uzbekistan said – “ The scale of our work in Uzbekistan has been growing during last years and we hope that by 2015, which is the deadline of achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG), we will continue to support the country and see its achievement of MDG indicators of human development.
The Japanese Agency for International Cooperation in Uzbekistan
Since the proclamation of the Independence of the Republic of Uzbekistan the Japanese government has been rendering comprehensive assistance to economic, industrial and ecological development of the country, deepening strategic partnership. So far the Japanese government has been cooperating with the Republic of Uzbekistan in the resolution of many different economic problems. Japan considers the regional cooperation of the Central Asia countries, including Uzbekistan, to be very important and in 2004 initiated the Dialogue ‘Central Asia +Japan’. The Dialogue is based on the ‘Respect of Diversity’, Competition and Coordination’, ‘Open Coordination’. Developing regional cooperation the government of Japan declared 2010 ‘The Year of Cooperation of Japan and Central Asia’. In 1993 the first trainees were sent from Uzbekistan to Japan.
‘Library in a Rucksack’ Helps to Learn German and Get to Know Nature
The new large project for waking up of love for reading among pupils of general education schools of Uzbekistan – ‘Library in a Rucksack’ will start in March. It is organized and carried out by the Goethe-Institute in Tashkent within the framework of the Initiative ‘Schools- partners of Future’. Illustrated books for children, youth and adults divided by ten different themes will be sent in rucksacks from school to school as moveable library to make the lessons of German language more interesting, diverting and modern. Special literature is very important for studding foreign languages, that is why two rucksacks are completed with such literature; in one of them there are books devoted different branches of knowledge and in another – books about nature. Special books give an opportunity to receive language knowledge naturally as if some subject were taught in a foreign language.
After a short period of frosts, sustainable warming again has become settled in Tashkent as well as in all provinces of Uzbekistan. Meteorologists mark that the winter of this year is anomaly warm and rather dry in Uzbekistan as well as all over Central Asia. Weather wisdom tells us that all missing atmospheric precipitations rate that should fall in winter will be replenished by spring rainfalls. But this weather wisdom formed in the time when weather indicators were relatively stable not only in Uzbekistan but all over the world. The climate change is now much spoken about. May be the statistics of weather anomalies for winter of 2010 will increase the number of people considering that it is something wrong with the climate. This winter in Greece also was anomaly warm. The beginning of January became the warmest for one hundred years of monitoring.
AviCA is becoming more and more important for research and preservation of globally endangered species of birds. According to the list of rare species IUCN (http://www.iucnredlist.org/), AviCA has the materials on meetings of 27 species of birds by the categories NT(near threatened), EN(endangered), CR(critically endangered). These are: Dalmatian Pelican (Pelecanus crispus), Lesser White-fronted Goose (Anser erythropus), Red-breasted Goose (Branta ruficollis), Furruginous Duck (Aythya nyroca), Marbled Duck (Marmaronetta angustirostris), White-headed Duck (Oxyura leucocephala), Pallas’s Fish Eagle (Haliaeetus leucoryphus), Egyptian Vulture (Neophron percnopterus), Cinereous Vulture (Aegypius monachus), Pallid Harrier (Circus macrourus), Greater Spotted Eagle (Aquila clanga), Eastern Imperial Eagle (Aquila heliaca), Lesser Kestrel (Falco naumanni)...
Application of International Standards in Uzbekistan
The environment management is among top common priorities of management systems. The environment management system insures order and consistency of resolution of the ecological problems by means of resources placement, allocation of responsibilities and permanent assessment of methods, procedure and processes. The environment management system is a sign of good management of territory and raises its investment attractiveness. Introduction of environment management to the maximum extent prevents ecological disaster. The primary goal of policy in the field of environment management system is to realize the right to favourable environment and its protection from negative influence by means of transition from liquidation of pollution consequences to its prevention.
Education and Career for the Harmoniously Developed Generation
Youth’s striving for education, getting occupations and trades is welcomed and encouraged in Uzbekistan for economic and social development of the country. Moreover, the youth has an opportunity to be educated not only in our country but also abroad. The state takes great notice of youth’s education, renders assistance in getting occupations and trades. The national program for specialist preparation, worked out in Uzbekistan, aims at getting to the young generation (that makes up no less than 60% of the population of our country) all opportunities to realize the abilities in the field of education. For all this, the material and technical base of educational and scientific institutions are being developed, modern colleges and lyceums are being built, educational, specialized literature is being published. It is not accidental, 2010 is declared in Uzbekistan the ‘Year of the Harmoniously Developed Generation’. The exhibition ‘Education and Career’ is annually organized in our country for already 5 years with the purpose of rendering assistance to the youth in the choice of education.
The winter registrations of water-birds have already become traditional in our country. From year to year more and more initiating participants are involved in this event. In this year the practice of winter registration of water-birds was marked by simultaneously organized visiting of ornithologists to some water bodies in different provinces of Uzbekistan. Members of the student club ‘Phasianus’ and employees of the Society of Birds Protection went to one of the most important territories for birds in the Tashkent province – Tuyabuguz reservoir (Tashkent Sea). Large gathering of birds was not noticed, may be because of bad weather. The groups of Wigeons and Greenshanks were marked among interesting species.
Today more than one hundred scientific, research and project designing organizations are working in Uzbekistan. Their developments meet all modern requirements. They are ecological and economical, aim at solving applied problems of agricultural production. However, often the applied works and developments of scientific and research institutes hardly open way to agricultural practice. Taking into consideration these negative tendencies, the Resolution of the Cabinet Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan ‘On Additional Measures for Stimulation of Introduction of Innovative Projects and Technologies in Industry’ was issued in 2008.
Experience and Knowledge Plus Youth’s Fervour and Enthusiasm
Evidences of negative natural phenomena caused by worsening of weather conditions all over the world again prove the availability of real global threat of climate change. This problem affects every one of us. In this situation each inhabitant of the Earth should have clear idea of the reasons of global warming and his contribution in solution of this problem. And so competent and actual information is very important measure for adaptation to already formed and changing climate conditions. More than 1200 young leaders over the world join efforts for struggle against the consequence of climate changes. Uzbekistan does not stand apart from the modern tendencies and public initiatives.
On 9 February 2010 a round table discussion of the draft Low of the Republic of Uzbekistan ‘On Ecological Control’ was held in Tashkent with the support of the State Committee for Nature Protection of the Republic of Uzbekistan and the Office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). Leading specialists of the authorized state bodies, representatives of public ecological organizations and mass media took part in the round table talk. During this event there were mentioned that presented draft low took into account the proposals made at working meetings, seminars and round table (August 2009) on strengthening effectiveness of ecological control.
Today everybody understands that stable and safe operation of technological complexes is impossible without equipping production with nature protection systems meeting the world technical level. As for oil and gas production companies, they, as is well known, in the near future will have to solve the vexed problem of raising of degree of the associated gas utilization to 95%. The complex method of approach – economic and legislative as well as technological is necessary for resolution of this problem. In view of this the 3th annual conference ‘Fuel and Ecology-2010’ will be held in Moscow at H.C.
The regional cooperation is not an easy problem. It includes search of the ways of joint using of valuable resources, opening of boarders for people and goods movement, coordination of construction of transport and telecommunication networks. Regional public resources, such as the environment, water, public health need joint regional development and management; regional challenges and possibilities need regional methods of approach. All these problems are difficult; however for Central Asia the regional cooperation is not one of possible version but the objective necessity.
‘Wide-scale Integration of Wind Energy’ The 9th World Conference on Wind Energetic and Exhibition of Renewable Energy
On 15-17 June Istanbul will host the World Conference and Exhibition on wind energetic (WWEC) that is the major event in the field of wind energetic and annually held on different continents. The World Conference and Exhibition on wind energetic WWEC 2010 aimed at founding strong platform on which leading specialists and officials in the field of wind-energetic technologies, industry and policy meet to exchange the latest technologies and information that influence on the strategic decisions. Special attention will be paid to the methods of integration of great capacity of wind energy into existing infrastructure of energy system and control of this system.
At present more than 7 thousands species of animals and almost 60 thousands species of plants are under the threat of disappearance. The UNO General Assembly declared 2010 the International Year of Biological Diversity by its resolution. Thus UNO wants to attract attention of the world community to the necessity of protection and efficient use of the nature, joining efforts for preservation of eco-systems and protection of most valuable natural objects. Now the children of Uzbekistan can contribute to the common cause on the conservation of natural diversity. Today 2 February 2010 the Children Ecological Forum ‘Children’s Look at Biodiversity – 2010’ has started. The organizing committee of the ‘Children Ecological Forum ‘Children’s Look at Biodiversity – 2010’ has decided to emphasize the importance of the biodiversity conservation by means of holding of information campaign and the competition of creative works.
Today the World Day of Wetlands is marked. This day should attract public attention to the importance of the wet lands for support of sustainable development of biological diversity. They supply a great population with water and biological resources, determine stability of local eco-systems, and are the habitats for many resident and migrating waterfowsl and semi-aquatic birds indicating their ways of migration. Taking the global importance of wetlands into consideration, the world community worked out and adopted special international agreement- the Convention ‘ On Wetlands of International Importance, Especially as Waterfowl Habitat’. This Convention was adopted on 2 February 1971 in Iran city Ramsar and since that time it has been called the ‘Ramsar Convention’; since 1997 the world community has marked 2 February the World Day of Wetlands.
