After more than two years of intensive preparation, in late January theree CMS Parties Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan submitted their transnational nomination of the Cold Winter Deserts of Turan as a World Natural Heritage Site to the UNESCO in Paris. The Outstanding Universal Value (OUV) of the Cold Winter Desert of Turan is justified by the significant ongoing ecological and biological processes in the cold winter deserts (criterion ix), as well as their importance as habitat for globally threatened animal and plant species (criterion x).

Under a presidential decree two new protected areas will be established in the Kyzylkum desert in Uzbekistan. The Central Kyzylkum National Park will be based in Uchkuduk district, Navoi region, on an area of 1.2 million hectares, and the Aktau-Tamdy State Nature Reserve (Zapodevnik) in Tamdy district covering 40,000 hectares. Both areas will be administered by der the State Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan on Ecology and Environmental Protection to preserve the unique ecosystems of the Kyzylkum desert, which provide habitat for endangered migratory species, including Goitered Gazelles, saker falcon, vultures and other migratory birds.

С момента разработки Программы работ по бухарскому оленю (2021-2026 гг.) в рамках Меморандума КМВ по бухарскому оленю (ПР), Центрально-Азиатская программа WWF в сотрудничестве с национальными государственными органами и экспертами работает над реализацией приоритетных мероприятий 7.4, 9.2 и 10.1, направленных на расселение бухарского оленя. Эти мероприятия будут способствовать снижению перенаселенности некоторых территорий, где численность животных превышает  естественную емкость экосистем, а также позволят бухарскому оленю вновь заселить некоторые из прежних мест обитания.

The kulan (Equus hemionus Pallas, 1775) is included in the Red Book of the Republic of Uzbekistan (2019) as a rare, locally distributed subspecies of the Asiatic Wild Ass on the verge of complete extinction. Until the end of the 19th century, the kulan was common on the Ustyurt plateau, from where it completely disappeared in the 1930s of the 20th century. The global population of the Asiatic wild Ass is “near threatened” on the IUCN Red List. Its range is fragmented and its populations went extinct in 11 out of 17 countries, which it once inhabited. Small populations now also exists in Israel, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan due to re-introduction efforts.