Date ( Publication )

2012-03-01

Other citation details

ICIMOD. (2018). Mammal Species of Zorkul Nature Reserve [Data set]. ICIMOD. https://doi.org/10.26066/RDS.35260

Purpose

This checklist was prepared to bridge the existing knowledge gap on Zorkul Nature Reserve

Status

Completed

Maintenance and update frequency

Unknown

Keywords ( Theme )

• Mammal
• Biodiversity

Keywords ( Place )

• Zorkul Nature Reserve
• Protected Area
• Tajikistan
• HKH-BIF

Use limitation

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Use limitation

Zorkul Nature Reserve (Lake Victoria)

Access constraints

Copyright

Use constraints

Copyright

Spatial representation type

Text, table

Metadata language

eng

Character set

UTF8

Topic category

• Biota

Description

Zorkul Nature Reserve is a 1610 km2 nature reserve in south-eastern Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province in the eastern part of the Central Asian nation of Tajikstan, adjoining the border with Afghanistan’s Wakhan District. The area was made a zakaznik in 1972 for the conservation of bar-headed geese and upgraded to a full nature reserve in 2000. It has also been identified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area (IBA).The reserve occupies a wide valley 320 km east of the provincial capital of Khorugh, lying between the southern Alichur and Vahan ridges of the eastern Pamir Mountainss at 4000–5460 m above sea level.

OnLine resource

HKH-BIF Portal ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Source

File identifier

f6e63019-2eb6-44f5-8f26-dea36b069d52 XML

Metadata language

eng

Character set

UTF8

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Date stamp

2026-02-02T14:52:19

Metadata standard name

North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003