{"id":186,"date":"2023-08-29T13:58:14","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T07:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icaber.kz\/?page_id=186"},"modified":"2023-08-31T16:49:42","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T10:49:42","slug":"about-us-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/icaber.kz\/index.php\/en\/about-us-2\/","title":{"rendered":"About us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Zhanbolat Nadyrov
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Dear friends,
\nI am glad to announce the opening of the «International Caspian-Aral Basin Ecosystem Revival and Flood Mitigation Fund».
\nMy childhood was spent in the former Dzhezkazgan region. As children, we often went to rich pastures, fished and hunted wild animals. The south of the Kazakh upland is the foothills of Ulytau, the vicinity of Zhezkazgan, the Northern Balkhash region. This is the land of plains with small hills, the remains of the destroyed prehistoric mountains. At the same time, this is by no means a monotonous boring wasteland, but an impressive collection of completely different landscapes: swampy river valleys, flooded and dry meadows. These steppes, affectionately called by the Kazakhs "Golden", have always served as a summer pasture — zhailau. Numerous herds of relic hump-nosed antelopes — saigas — grazed here, and wolves were in no way inferior in size to African tigers.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

I also remember a small dam that made a huge pond on a puny river. It was built in 1909 by the British to meet the needs of the copper smelter.<\/span><\/p>\n\n

What I saw in the late 90s and early 2000s upset me greatly. The steppe was practically dead. Where lush grass grew and numerous streams flowed between the hills, they turned into takyr. The reason is the death of the Aral Sea. People have killed the sea, and now the nature of the sea brings death and disease to people. Every year, up to 80 million tons of poisonous salts rise from the dried bottom of the Aral Sea. They are carried by dust storms for many thousands of kilometers – from Western Europe to the peaks of the Tien Shan and the Himalayas, having a negative impact on the health of people and ecosystems in all our countries.<\/span><\/p>\n\n

Then I decided to make every effort to revive the ecosystem of the region. All this time:<\/span><\/p>\n\n