Surgil ESIA Report - Volume III - EKN

“O’ZLITINEFTGAZ” PC
PFS “Surgil field complex costruction with valuable
components retrieval”
Rodent order - greater sand eel, Libyan jird, tamarisk gerbil,
long-clawed ground squirrel, Severtsev
jerboa, fat-tailed jerboa, comb-toed jerboa,
lesser five-toed jerboa, dwarf hamster, mole
lemming, mouse, muskrat;
Insect-eaters - eared hedgehog;
Duplicidentates - tolai hare;
Chiroptera - great bat, bearded common bat;
Vermin - sand cat, Pallas' cat, steppe polecat, badger,
corsac fox, wolf, jackal, fox, African wild cat,
saiga;
Reptile - steppe tortoise, comb-toed gecko, gray gecko,
Turkestan gecko, agama, desert monitor, lined
desert lacerta, brindled desert lacerta, eared
toad agama, grass lizard, Pallas' coluber,
phoorsa, cobra, mocassin, arrow snake,
Orsini's viper.
As a result of change of the rivers water balance and the growth of water
mineralization caused by it (Aral salinity has risen from 11 to 22g/l), there is lost a number
of endemic species of animals.
The rare animals and threatened species, recorded in the Red Book: caracal, Pallas'
cat, khangul, jerboa, giant noctule, Asiatic wild ass, Persian gazelle, moufflon, desert
monitor, Central Asia cobra, steppe eagle, golden eagle, imperial eagle, balaban, peregrin,
white crane, desert falcon, desert sparrow.
Thus, the flora and fauna condition in the Aral area are characterized by structural
failures of biocenoses (it is expressed in change of a quantitative proportion of various
species of animal organisms) which lead to changes of functions of the various organisms
(first of all to fall of reproduction level and quality of posterity).
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