KEY FINDINGS  
       

Asia
Kazakhstan

 

Land area (CIA Fact book) - 2,669,800 km2
Estimated population 2005 (CIA Fact book) - 15,185,844

Total forest area 2000 (WRI) - 121,480 km2
Natural forest area 2000 (WRI) - 121,430 km2
Annual % forest cover change 1990-2000 (WRI) - +2.2%

Key Findings

Forest zone (zone of analysis) - 1.0% country area
Intact Forest Landscapes (IFL) area - 8,819 km2
% of forest zone occupied by IFL - 32.7%
% world IFL located in country - 0.1%
% of IFL areas located in strict protected areas (WDPA) - 1.8%

IFL forest density assessment

% Closed forests, Open forests and Non-forest ecosystems inside IFL and outside IFL

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Intact Forest Landscapes borders - Google Earth KMZ-file:
Block 16 (3 669 kb)

Intact Forest Landscapes borders - ArcView SHP-file:
Block 16 (1 588 kb)

Intact Forest Landscapes borders - TIFF-file:
Block 16 (8 531 kb)

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Authors

Northern part (Russian border) was taken from "Remaining wildlands of the Northern forests" (GFW, 2002, unreviewed draft)

Southern part: M. Dubinin (Biodiversity Conservation Center, International Socio-Ecological Union)

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