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GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF TAJIKISTAN

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Mar

Land & Ecosystems

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Tigrovaya Balka Reserve: Floodplain Ecology in Peril

Where the Vakhsh River meets the Amu Darya, a floodplain stretches into thickets, wetlands, and forests of willow and poplar. This is Tigrovaya Balka, Tajikistan’s oldest nature reserve and one of Central Asia’s most important floodplain ecosystems. To walk here is to enter a geography defined by water’s ebb and flow, by forests that rise…
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Jul

Hazards & Safety

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Vulnerable Basins

The sound comes first—a low rumble that grows into a roar. By the time villagers hear it clearly, the brown torrent is already spilling down the mountainside, carrying stones, branches, and the unmistakable smell of wet earth. In Tajikistan floods and mudflows are not rare events. They are seasonal realities, woven into life in valleys…
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