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SPI: 16.78
Species Protection Index Average: 41
National Report Card: Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan’s terrain is completely mountainous, with an average elevation of 2,750 m. The Tien Shan range dominates a landscape and contains many tall peaks, glaciers, and high-altitude lakes. In Kyrgyzstan most of the country is used for human activities, in its majority by rangeland.
Challenges to biodiversity include water pollution; soil salinity; and air pollution.
6.37%
of land currently protected
718
total land vertebrate species
1
endemic land vertebrate species
Species of significant conservation interest
Snow Leopard
2
amphibians / 0 endemic
565
birds / 0 endemic
90
mammals / 1 endemic
61
reptiles / 1 endemic
Information on this page was sourced from the CIA World Factbook and the Half-Earth Project Map.