A group of ecologists and naturalists of Turkmenistan is working on a project to create a hunting and fishing farm "Kelif" in the south of the Lebap velayat. The project is carried out within the framework of the World Wide Fund for Nature of the Russian Federation on the conservation of biodiversity in the mountains of Central Asia, according to the publication "Turkmenistan: Golden Age".

The project manager, hunting specialist Batyr Taganov says:

"The territory of Tallymerjen - Kelif-Zeyit is one of the priority territories of this project. Administratively, it is the Lebap velayat (Kerki etrap), on the territory of which the Kelif Uzboy with the lakes of the same name and the Zeyit reservoir is located.

In the autumn of last year, we conducted an expedition to collect data on the nomination of the future base of the hunting and fishing economy "Kelif". It was revealed that from mountain animals in these places live: a jackal, a fox, a reed cat, a hare, sometimes a wild boar and wolves come. And among the birds - dove, pheasant, white-bellied, less often black-bellied grouse. On migration and wintering grounds there are gray and white-fronted geese, shelducks, mallards, common teals, red-headed and red-nosed pochards, great and small cormorants, various waders and other water birds. On the Kelif lakes there are curly and pink pelicans, white-fronted goose, marbled teal, white-eyed pochard, and flamingos fly in some winters.

The production potential of the economy in the broad sense of the word depends on the natural features of the land, their properties and features of development. Hence the need for a deep knowledge of the territory. This is an indispensable condition for its correct and rational development.

The main task of the hunting and fishing economy is to provide not only sports and recreational needs, but also the use of a variety of hunting and fishing products. The protection, reproduction and rational use of stocks of wild animals and birds is carried out here.

According to game scientists, the results of the project will allow showing interested entrepreneurs and / or beneficiaries the economic benefits of providing environmental services when organizing the Kelif farm. In turn, this will serve the development of more effective environmental protection activities," the project manager noted.