Central Asia is one of five most important sources of cultural plants where rare and unique species of wild horticultural crops are preserved. Expansion of pastures for domestic cattle, illegal cutting down of trees, industrialization, introduction and planting of alien species threaten and force out wild and endemic cultures. Scientists and experts of whole world have faced the problem of saving the genetic fund of wild plants. Already for several years the works on registration, foundation of dada bank and saving the wild relatives of many cultures are being carried out within the framework of the project Biodiversity International/UNEP-GEF’ In situ/On farm- Preservation and Use of Agro- bio- diversity (horticultural crops and their wild relatives) in Central Asia. During these years the great work was implemented in each country-participant of this project.

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Soil, flora and fauna in the nature closely interact with climate; they also influence on formation of the human style of life. People have got used and adapted to the concrete climate. They took into consideration the climate peculiarities to make their life more comfortable. For example when designing and constructing towns it is necessary to know prevalent wind direction: it allows locating industry enterprises in such a way that they would not pollute the air of residential blocks with smoke and soot. The climate influences on the human health and life conditions. Human organism loses warmth owing to radiation, heat conduction, convection and evaporation of humidity from surface of the body. If these loses are too high in cold weather or too low in hot weather a man feels a discomfort and can fall ill.

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The strong united system of medical information is the key-stone of optimum public health system. It is greatly important for collection and accumulation of the information which is necessary for medical workers with the purpose of the most efficient use of limited recourses. Providing necessary due time information to doctors and nurse, the officials determining policy of Health Ministries and international organizations for development give them an opportunity to make a well-grounded decision and to report on their actions and expenses. In this connection on 28-30 January the international Forum on medical information collection will be held in Bangkok. The broad circles of governmental experts, organizations, donor agencies interested in improvement of the medical information collection (MIC) system will take part in the Forum. This event is held with the support of the Health Metrics Network, the World Health Organization (Who), the World Bank, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Prince Mahidol Awarding Foundation.

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In the age of globalization the information and communication technologies are conquering the world and youth receives main information from the global net. There you may find the answer on any question. Taking into consideration that the year 2010 was declared the ‘Year of the Harmoniously Developed Generation’ a lot of state, public and youth organizations are implementing a great work on education of the harmoniously developed generation by means of information and communication technologies.

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The goal of the activity of physiologists and biophysicists is to clarify how environment pollution affects on human and animal organisms. Scientists thoroughly study the influence of the environmental on an organism, research physiological and biophysical changes in the organism and look for the ways of prophylaxis of the diseases caused by these changes. Frequent exchange of experience and information at seminars and conferences allows scientists to keep up with the times, to become acquainted with the outcomes of researches, to study foreign experience.

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Wealth and diversity of flora of Uzbekistan , the peculiarities of plants’ adaptation to arid severe living conditions further formation of the original direction of botany in our country- the research of the ecological interaction of a plant organism and the environment, based on studying its structure in the conditions of natural habitat. The Scientific and Production Centre ‘Botany’ of the Academy of Science of the Republic of Uzbekistan researches these problems. In his time Jura Kamalovich Saidov an academician of the Academy of the Academy of Science of the Republic of Uzbekistan laid the foundation of this direction. Today the Republican Scientific Conference on the ‘Modern Problems of Structural Botany’ dedicated to the centennial anniversary of academician J.K. Saidov was held in the Institute of Botany of the Academy of Science of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

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How to tell children about the protective the ozone layer? Is it necessary? Experienced teachers and educators can say that it is necessary. The earlier we begin to form children’s ecological cultural the more harmonious and fundamental it will be in their future life. Such knowledge should be given competently taking into consideration the age peculiarities and possibilities of the audience. 20 January interesting event was held for pupils of the first form in the secondary school № 257 of the Unus-Abad district of Tashkent. The children learned about the ozone layer and its protection qualities. The main goal of the organizers was to inform the pupils of primary school about ozone, the problems concerned with preservation of the ozone layer and precautionary measures against the harmful influence of ultra-violet emanation. The learned information was fixed by means of plays and competitions. Detailed talk, posters about environment, demonstration of the film ‘Ozzi Ozone’ with further discussion of it, questioning on understanding of this film allowed children to gain useful practical skill of being in the sun.

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Saving and increasing water resources is an indispensable factor for the inhabitants of the Central Asian Countries. The countries of Central Asia located in the common ecological area of the Aral Sea basin (ASB) to a different extent are suffering from limitation in water resources. Catastrophic drying up of the Aral Sea has caused storage of drinking and irrigation water for inhabitants of whole region and undermined the life foundation of the ASB inhabitants – agriculture. Disappearance of water brought in another problem. Because of the continuous process of disinflation (destruction, weathering, blowout), dust and salt from dried bottom of the Aral Sea rise and spread for many hundreds of kilometers, mix up with clouds and fall with precipitation throughout Central Asia.

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On 15 January 2010 the summing up and solemn awarding ceremony of the competition winners ‘The Best Rural School on ecological education and upbringing’ took place in the convention hall of the Ecological Movement of Uzbekistan.
All schools of Uzbekistan that wanted to announce about their work in the field of ecological education and upbringing could participate in the Republican competition. By organized word, about 100 applications were sent. After short listing based on the approved criteria only 26 schools from different provinces passed to the final stage of the competition.

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On 15 January 2010 the summing up and solemn awarding ceremony of the competition winners ‘The Best Rural School on ecological education and upbringing’ took place in the convention hall of the Ecological Movement of Uzbekistan.
All schools of Uzbekistan that wanted to announce about their work in the field of ecological education and upbringing could participate in the Republican competition. By organized word, about 100 applications were sent. After short listing based on the approved criteria only 26 schools from different provinces passed to the final stage of the competition.

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Mass media publish a lot of materials on the problems of environment protection.
The State Committee for Nature Protection of the Republic of Uzbekistan and its structural units regularly hold press-conferences to inform public on their activity and to present the published ecological literature. Thus, on 15 January the Tashkent Province Committee for Nature Protection organized the press-conference ‘High Ecological Culture- the base of progress’ in the National Press-centre.  Scientists, representatives of higher educational institutions of Uzbekistan, public and Journalists took part in this press-conference.

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The problem of preservation of biological diversity occupies a significant place among the global ecological problems.  The concept of biological diversity comprises a large number of wild species of plants and animals including birds. Taking all this into consideration, the United Nations Organization declared the year 2010 the International Year of Biological Diversity. This event is a matter of principle for humanity; this is declaration of value of life on the Earth and basic importance of biological diversity for human life. In this way the UNO appealed to the world community to activate their measures of preservation of life diversity on the Earth in 2010. The humanity is a part of the rich diversity of the Nature; and we are able either to destroy or save this diversity. It is necessary to involve in this activity broad layers of the population, youth for more successful preservation of bio-diversity.

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Fish and fish products are important and tasty supplement for the table of the inhabitants of our country. The fish entities chain supplying markets with comparatively cheap fish has been developed in Uzbekistan. However modern conditions of life require development of fish industry in view of raising productivity, creating additional jobs places and profits by creating small fish entities. To achieve these challenges, it is necessary to develop scientific and educational activity in the field of fishery and aquaculture, to apply new technologies of fish breeding in reservoirs, to intensify training of ichthyologists, to work out cheap and high-calorie food for fish in reservoirs.

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The Society of Birds Protection of Uzbekistan annually takes part in the International Winter Census of Water-birds in water bodies and reservoirs in different provinces of our Republic. In new 2010 year the winter registration of water-birds in Uzbekistan should be carried out on the week-end 16-17 January on recommendation of the IWC (International Water-bird Census) program.

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Protection of nature, natural territories is one of the most important tasks of our time as in the age of accelerated development of society, natural resources of the Earth have been undergoing increasing anthropogenous influence and greatly changing. Protected natural territories (PNT) created all over the world are necessary for preservation of natural landscapes and biological diversity of the regions. The PNT are land and water spaces which have priority ecological, scientific, cultural, aesthetic, recreational and sanitary importance and are fully or partially withdrawn from the economic use. They are indispensible for ensuring natural balance; are centres of ecological stability and rehabilitation of natural ecological systems. Taking all this into consideration, the Wild Nature Protection Centre and the World Wildlife Foundation in 1997 declared 11 January the World Day of Reserves and National parks.

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The seminar-training called “Practical method of approach to Lung Health” was held in the Regional Centre of DOTS of Ministry of Health of the Republic of Karakalpakstan. The Ministry of Health of RK and the Representatives Office of the World Health Organization (WHO) in the Republic of Uzbekistan were the organizers of the seminar held within the framework of the project “Protection of Health against Climate Change in Uzbekistan”. Instructors trained in Bishkek and assistant professors of the Kyrgyz State Medical Institute of retraining and advanced training, the experts of the Kyrgyz-Finnish project “Strengthening of Lung Health” taught phthisiologists, general practitioners and employees of rural doctor’s points.
About twenty doctors from four northern districts of Karakalpakstan took part in this seminar.

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The forecast of weather change, air pollution level, state of surface-water and soil is necessary for successful development of agriculture and industry of the country. The Center of the Hydro-meteorological service of Uzbekistan – Uzhydrometcenter performs this function in the Republic of Uzbekistan.
Till recently, this information spread among different ministries, departments, enterprises and organizations in the «Bulletin» format. This «Bulletin» was also presented on the site of the Uzhydrometcenter.
Taking into consideration that public interest in the ecological problems of the country is growing, the Center of Hydro meteorological Service of Uzbekistan- Uzhydrometcenter jointly with the National Television and Radio Broadcasting Company of Uzbekistan have planed release of the special rubric called the «Ecological Bulletin of Tashkent» in the information program “Poytakht” of the “Tashkent” Chanel with the purpose of raising population awareness on state of atmosphere air in Tashkent City. The issues are planed twice a week-on Tuesday and Friday in the «Poytakht» program.

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Modern processes concerned with the increasing of anthropogenesis influence on the natural environment made the problem of natural world preservation particularly actual. Recently, the world community has been showing deep concern with the ecological problems  The UNO Summit on Climate Change in Copenhagen (Denmark), where the world leaders tried to find the ways for changing ecological situation in the world, is a good evidence of this.
During the past ten years, the ecology has been becoming more and more meaningful in human’s life.  Such concepts as ecology of food, ecological way of life and eco-tourism have appeared and strengthened.

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Following the Resolution of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated 14 December 2006, import of vehicles of categories ‘M2’, ‘M3’ and ‘N2’ of the ecological class EURO-2 and below it has been prohibited since 1 January 2010.
The Resolution was adopted with the purpose of further development and raise of competitiveness of buses and trucks produced in Uzbekistan, upgrading and replenishment of the Republican fleet of motor vehicles, as well as improvement of safety of
passenger and cargo transportation and reduction of harmful discharges into atmosphere. 

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