Biodiversity Assessment for Turkmenistan

E&E - 117/119 Report - Turkmenistan Introduction The biodiversity assessment for the Republic of Turkmenistan was funded by USAID’s Regional Mission to the Central Asian Republics in Almaty under a contract to Chemonics International through the Biodiversity and Sustainable Forestry (BIOFOR) IQC (see Annex B, Scope of Work). A two-person team consisting of Raymond Carl Daviesson and Dr. Galina Fet visited Turkmenistan from June 7 to June 22, 2000. Mr. Daviesson and Dr. Fet collaborated with local biodiversity specialist Dr. Habibullah I. Atamuradov in researching and assessing biodiversity in Turkmenistan. The approach used in the assessment was to collect and analyze information on biodiversity and related areas through documentation searches, interviews with key individuals and organizations concerned with biodiversity, both in Turkmenistan and in Washington D.C. (see Annex C, List of Persons Contacted), and field trips. Rather than duplicating research already undertaken and presented in strategy and project documents, this assessment has borrowed freely from these documents and synthesized and adapted information where appropriate. Task Order under the Biodiversity & Sustainable Forestry IQC (BIOFOR) USAID CONTRACT NUMBER: LAG-I-00-99-00014-00 SUBMITTED TO: USAID CENTRAL ASIAN REPUBLICS MISSION, ALMATY, KAZAKHSTAN SUBMITTED BY: CHEMONICS INTERNATIONAL INC. WASHINGTON, D.C. JUNE 2001

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