Altyn-Emel National Park, Kazakhstan
Altyn-Emel is a national natural park located in the Ili river valley in the Kazakhstan territory. The Park was founded on 10 April 1996 with the purpose to preserve a unique natural complex, archeological, historical and cultural monuments, rare and endangered species of animals and plants. In the Park territory of total area of 520,000ha, one can find various landscapes: mountain, sand-desert, rank and deserted ones.
The flora of the Park amounts to 1800 plant species, 21 of which are entered in the Red Book of Kazakhstan, about 69 species out of them are rare ones met only in the territory of the Zhungar Alatau, Ili river basin and Balkhash. 56 species out of the animals inhabited the Park are considered rare, and entered in the Red Book of Kazakhstan, among them are argali, dziggetai, Persian gazelle.
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