1685 TJ - Tugay forests of the Tigrovaya Balka Nature Reserve (2023)

 Tugay forests of the Tigrovaya Balka Nature Reserve

This property is located between the Vakhsh and Panj rivers in southwestern Tajikistan. The Reserve includes extensive riparian tugay ecosystems, the sandy Kashka-Kum desert, the Buritau peak, as well as the Hodja-Kaziyon mountains. The property is composed of a series of floodplain terraces covered by alluvial soils, comprising tugay riverine forests with very specific biodiversity in the valley. The tugay forests in the reserve represent the largest and most intact tugay forest of this type in Central Asia, and this is the only place in the world where the Asiatic poplar tugay ecosystem has been preserved in its original state over an area of this size.

蒂格罗瓦亚·巴尔卡自然保护区的托喀依森林

遗产位于塔吉克斯坦西南部，瓦赫什河和喷赤河之间。保护区包括广阔的河岸托喀依生态系统、卡什卡-库姆（Kashka-Kum）沙漠、布里陶（Buritau）峰以及霍贾-卡齐永（Hodja-Kaziyon）山。遗产地则由一系列冲积土覆盖的河漫滩阶地组成，包括谷地中的托喀依河岸森林，林间生物多样性独特。相较中亚同类型森林，保护区内的托喀依森林体量最大、生存状态最好。同时这里也是世界上唯一以原始状态保存大面积亚洲杨树托喀依生态系统的地方。

Source UNESCO WH website http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1685

1252 TJ - Tajik National Park (Mountains of the Pamirs) (2013)

Tajik National Park (Mountains of the Pamirs)

Tajikistan National Park covers more than 2.5 million hectares in the east of the country, at the centre of the so-called “Pamir Knot”, a meeting point of the highest mountain ranges on the Eurasian continent. It consists of high plateaux in the east and, to the west, rugged peaks, some of them over 7,000 meters high, and features extreme seasonal variations of temperature. The longest valley glacier outside the Polar region is located among the 1,085 glaciers inventoried in the site, which also numbers 170 rivers and more than 400 lakes. Rich flora species of both the south-western and central Asian floristic regions grow in the Park which shelters nationally rare and threatened birds and mammals (Marco Polo Argali sheep, Snow Leopards and Siberian Ibex and more). Subject to frequent strong earthquakes, the Park is sparsely inhabited, and virtually unaffected by agriculture and permanent human settlements. It offers a unique opportunity for the study of plate tectonics and subduction phenomena.

Source UNESCO WH website http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1252