Til Dieterich- Diplom
- Freelance for Biodiversity Conservation
Til Dieterich
- Diplom
- Freelance for Biodiversity Conservation
Helping to save biodiversity on planet Earth (Solar system, Milky Way Galaxy, Local Group, Virgo Supercluster, Universe)
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Introduction
My research interests are related to biodiversity protection and sustainable use of natural and cultural landscapes.
Current institution
Freelance for Biodiversity Conservation
Additional affiliations
May 1998 - present
NABU (German Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union)
Position
- Speaker
Description
- The Eurasian Working Group of NABU (German Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union) is a dedicated team working vuluntarily within NABU focused on conserving and protecting the natural heritage in Central Asia. The working group actively engages in initiatives and projects aimed at preserving the biodiversity, ecosystems, and natural habitats. The comunity based protection of the saiga antelope, establishment of new proteced areas and UNESCO World Heritage Nominations have been in the focus.
Education
October 1995 - June 2000
September 1994 - June 1995
September 1992 - August 1994
Publications
Publications (60)
The study explores the feasibility of introducing Saiga antelopes to certain dryland areas in Azerbaijan. While the species is extinct in the region since the last ice age, suitable habitats exist, particularly around the Mingachevir reservoir. However, the success of the reintroduction depends on various factors, including water availability, fodd...
Presentation on findings on the human-wildlife conflicts in the Ural sub-population of the Saiga tatarica and recommendations how to move forward with using the species sustainably in a comunity based way.
Популяция сайгаков в Казахстане восстанавливается, что вызывает новые конфликты с фермерами. В статье рассматривается возможность использования рогов сайгака, полученных в результате естественной гибели, для создания запасов, предотвращающих колебания рыночного предложения. Рассматриваются юридические вопросы, в том числе различие между сайгаками,...
Conservation efforts in Kazakhstan led to a significant increase in the saiga population, causing alleged conflicts with farmers in the Kaztalov and Zhanibek districts. A survey in spring 2023 recorded over 180,000 saigas, predominantly calving females, prompting proposed mechanisms for coexistence and benefit sharing with the local herders. The st...
The saiga population in Kazakhstan is recovering, causing aleged conflicts with farmers. The article explores the potential use of saiga horns from natural mortality to create stockpiles, preventing market supply fluctuations. Legal issues, including distinguishing between naturally deceased saigas and poached ones, are addressed. A tracking system...
Усилия по охране сайгаков в Казахстане привели к значительному увеличению их численности, что стало причиной предполагаемых конфликтов с фермерами в Казталовском и Жанибекском районах. Исследование, проведенное весной 2023 года, зафиксировало более 180 000 сайгаков, преимущественно окотившихся самок, что позволило сделать оценку будущих механизмов...
Description of scientific research on the correlation of livestock and Saiga antelope. Discussion of methods how to count different age classes of the Saiga and importance of saiga carcasses for birds of prey like the steppe eagle. Outlook on possible sustainable use of the species is also given. Published in Central Asian Mammals Initiative Newsle...
Bonn, 26 January 2023-The Saiga antelope (Saiga tatarica and S. borealis) is a migratory herbivore found in Kazakhstan, Mongolia, the Russian Federation and Uzbekistan. The saiga generally inhabits open dry steppe grasslands and semideserts. Saigas in the 1990s underwent a catastrophic fall (~95%) in numbers due to poaching, decreasing from more th...
The Central Asian desert ecosystems are currently under intense anthropogenic pressure. They have unique ecological characteristics, supporting numerous species, including several species of wild cats, such as the Persian leopard (Pantherapardus tulliana), caracal (Caracal caracal), Asiatic wild cat (Felis ornata), Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx), Jungle...
The impact of the border fence on the Goitered Gazelle (Gazella subgutterosa) has been investigated along the southern border of Kazakhstan (opposite of Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan) in spring 2021. The findings are alarming, because the border fence does hinder the animal in its annual migrations and mitigation measures are urgently needed.
The establishment of a protected area in the South Ustyurt Area of Kazakhstan is discussed and the status quo of the scientific work layed out in detail. The authors strongly recommend to establish a protected area in due time in order to preserve the pristine and intact desert ecosystems of the area.
Mass mortality of reptiles and other vertebrates caused by permanent deep trenches used tosafeguard agricultural lands in the southeast of Turkestan province of Kazakhstan was initially discovered back in 2019, when 365 reptiles of five species were found doomed to die of starvationand dehydration without the human assistance during a double survey...
In Central Asia, temperate steppes and deserts are by far the dominant ecosystems, covering about two thirds of the land surface. Here, the view stretches almost uninterrupted to the horizon, due to the mostly flat or undulating landscape, where trees are absent and large shrubs are rare.
Since 2014, NABU has been increasingly alarmed by reports of...
The Persian leopard Panthera pardus tulliana is an endangered large felid living in
mountainous landscapes of the Caucasus, Southwest Asia and parts of Central Asia.
In this paper, we review available literature to update our information on the status,
population, ecology, threats, and management recommendations in regard to this big
cat in the...
This report presents the results of survey of a 46-kilometer section of the overhead line (OHL) powering the cathodic protection of the Bukhara – Ural Gas Pipeline within the Aktobe Region of the Republic of Kazakhstan. 7 kilometers of this section were previously equipped with bird protection devices (BPDs), which are now totally lost due to destr...
Отчет SOS CMS Gazella subgutterosa 2021(Report SOS CMS Gazella subgutterosa 2021) --
В отчете представлены результаты экспресс-оценки современного состояния популяций джейрана вдоль государственной границы в пределах Мангистауской, Актюбинской, Кызылординской и Туркестанской областей Республики Казахстан, полученные в ходе экспедиционных исследован...
План действий по сохранению и восстановлению джейрана в Казахстане (2021-2025 гг.)
Цель: Сохранение и восстановление популяций джейрана в Казахстане.
Основные задачи:
Создание и расширение особо охраняемых природных территорий.
Борьба с браконьерством.
Мониторинг популяций джейрана.
Реинтродукция джейрана в исторические места обитания.
Просветит...
В отчете представлены результаты экспресс-оценки современного состояния биоразнообразия высших растений и позвоночных животных (амфибий, рептилий, птиц и млекопитающих) на Южном Устюрте в пределах Каракиянского района Мангистауской области Республики Казахстан, полученные в ходе комплексных экспедиционных исследований в 2017, 2018 и 2019 гг. в рамк...
Ulcinj Salina is situated on the southeastern coast of Adriatic Sea, which also
represents the utmost southeast point of Montenegro. The salina is the largest of its kind in the Adriatic Sea (Criterion 1) and is located on the territory of Municipality of Ulcinj, near to the state border with Albania. It is, in wider sense, ecologically and geogra...
The article describes the design of the border fences along the state border of Kazakhstan with Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan within the Mangystau region of Kazakhstan. The border fence prevents crossborder migration of ungulates. Recommendations for solving this problem are given. The fact of the sighting of a Kulan in the Kazakhstani part of Southe...
The documents provides programmes for biodiversity conservation and monitoring for the Kintrishi PAs. An overview on the natural values of the PAs are given i.e. key fauna and flora elements. The flora of the Colchic relict forests with evergreen undergrowth is with about 900 species and 64 Caucasus and 54 Colchic plant endemics of outstanding univ...
The documents provides programmes for biodiversity conservation and monitoring for the Kazbegi NP. An overview on the natural values of the NP are given i.e. key fauna and flora elements of the Greater Caucasus.
The fauna resembles an almost complete set of fauna elements of the mountain ecosystems of the Greater Caucasus i.e. eastern tur, chamois,...
The documents provides programmes for biodiversity conservation and monitoring for the Pshav-Khevsureti PAs. An overview on the natural values of the PAs are given i.e. key fauna and flora elements. The flora of the Greater Caucasus
Also the fauna resembles a almost complete set of fauna elements of this ecosystems i.e. Bezoar Ibex, East Caucasian...
Community-based conservation of the saiga antelope. When humans began
to settle the Ustyurt region in what is now western Kazakhstan, they
discovered a landscape with numerous large mammals, like those found in
Africa today. A “Central Asian Serengeti”, with wild horses and donkeys,
camels, urials (a species of wild sheep), goitered gazelles and sa...
Die umfangreichen Boden-Untersuchungen an 68 Standorten und Berechnungen des Gesamtkohlenstoffgehalts in der ebenen Steppe Kasachstans ergaben ein geschätztes Kohlenstoff-Speichervermögen von rund 2 Gt. Dies entspricht einem Anteil von 21% des geschätzen Gesamtkohlenstoffgehaltes von 9 Gt der 118 Mrd ha Steppenflächen Kasachstans. Bei dem Potential...
В отчете представлены результаты экспресс-оценки современного состояния биоразнообразия высших растений и позвоночных животных на Южном Устюрте и Мангышлаке в пределах Каракиянского района Мангистауской области Республики Казахстан, полученные в ходе экспедиционных исследований в мае 2017 г. в рамках реализации проекта MSF/203/17 «Центрально-азиатс...
Purpose of the book. The results presented in this book are meant to provide guidance to those wishing to organize future landscape-ecological excursions in the respective areas. With the help of maps and GPS coordinates, this guidebook offers an opportunity to undertake self-organised excursions by providing detailed scientific information on vege...
Protected areas in post-Soviet countries are often affected by the same global trends as parks in the Western world. In addition, however, protected area governance in former communist states faces specific challenges related both to the dramatic political, economic and societal changes taking place since the fall of the Iron Curtain and to the leg...
Climate change, declines in biodiversity, increasing consumption of resources, urbanisation, urban sprawl and demographic change continue to challenge the regions of Europe. In response to these processes of regional and global change, there has been an unmistakeable boom in parks in Europe since the 1990s. More than a fifth of the continent is now...
Plans of JSC “KazMunayGaz” National Company” on developing the Kansu gas field, which is situated right next to current southern borders of Usturt natural reserve on Kenderli-Kayasan conservation zone (Mangystau Province of the Republic of Kazakhstan) are a direct danger for the largest population of the Saker Falcon Falco cherrug korelovi in Kazak...
The report investigates the possibility to set up a protected area at the former soviet Nuclear Test Site Semipalatinsk with focus on the Karaganda argali (Ovis ammon collium, IUCN NT) in Degelen mountain range. The nuclear test site has to be classified an "Involuntary park", because due to the pollution with plutonium and other radioactive elemen...
This document aims at giving concise information about the physical, biotic and socio-economic context of the project area (ch. 2, p4) as well as assessments of important areas in terms of land use and nature conservation. For the purpose of these assessments, the area is divided into “pas-ture areas” (ch. 3, p30) and “non-pasture areas” (ch. 4, p4...
ЮНЕСКО – Организация Объединенных наций по вопросам образования, науки и культуры была создана в ноябре 1945 года. В 1972 году ЮНЕСКО приняла Конвенцию об охране всемирного культурного и природного наследия (вступила в силу в 1975 году). К сентябрю 2012 года конвенцию ратифицировали 190 стран-участниц. Ежегодно Комитет всемирного наследия проводит...
This manual does summarize the methodology which is necessary to conduct the field courses for the BSc and MSc students at the Faculty of BioEcology (Baku State University). It does correspond with the recently developed program for the field courses (compare Annex 7). It does give the students and teachers the necessary insight to conduct landscap...
Это руководство суммирует методологию, которая необходима, чтобы провести полевые курсы обучения для студентов БН и МН кафедры Биоэкологии (Бакинский Государственный Университет). Это соответствует недавно развитой программе для полевых курсов обучения (сравните Приложение 1). Данное руководство действительно дает студентам и учителям необходимую с...
The Book contains findings of biodiversity research combined with cultural and social aspects of the Albanian Prespa National Park.
The information provided by the book has been collected during the five years period of the Project 'Transboundary Biosphere Reserve Prespa - Support to the Prespa National Park in Albania', financed by the Ministry fo...
Conservation and protection measures of the ecosystems are in the foremost interest of the local population, as they are the basis of survival for the park’s inhabitants. Therefore, the National Park was created to conserve the essential ecosystem functions as there are:
Habitat quality for species;
Providing enough spaces to allow undisturbed...
Management Plan National Park Prespa in Albania for the years 2014-2024
The Albanian Prespa National Park (PNP) is situated in the transboundary Prespa region with borders to Greece in the East and Macedonia in the North. The whole region is situated in the Sub-Mediterranean floristic region and has a high biodiversity due absence of big glaciers during the past ice ages. The terrestrial part of the proclaimed PNP is a...
Report on selected land use issues in the future Samur Yalama National Park (Azerbaijan) and its support zone. Implications for the nature conservation management of the area.
In October 2012, a joint fact-finding mission conducted by KfW and GIZ investigated in the here presented pre-feasability study the conditions for launching a project on climate adaptation through sustainable forestry in Tajikistan. The project would be financed by the German Government, with KfW contributing up to €8 million and GIZ up to €2.8 mil...
Mass death of Saiga antelopes took place from 18 to 21 May 2010 in the north west of West Kazakhstan province north-east and south-east of Borsy (about 12.000 dead animals found). In August and September the forage basis of Saiga antelope in the mass death area was investigated. Mass growth of potentially poisonous Brassicacea species for ruminants...
The current most plausible hypothesis for the die off of saigas in West Kazakhstan in 2010 and 2011 is that, after calving, adult saigas entered an area of relatively rich pastures. This was a time of rapid growth of vegetation. After eating the vegetation, saigas developed problems with their ruminal function. This led to bloating, mild diarrhoea...
Report gives an overview on the results achieved in the EU Funded Project ETPACK (Ecological Tourism and Public Awareness in Central Kazakhstan) running from 2008 to 2010
It is agreed meaning by the team that distant pasture systems are the best solution to the overgrazing problems we face in rural Kazakhstan today. In order to understand the distant pasture systems from the past the Soviet pasture system has been reviewed. The report reviews also the the pastoral systems from Kazakh times (before 1930) as far as th...
Nomination Dossier to nominate the Korgalzyn and Naruzum Strict Protected Areas (Zapovednik) as Natural UNESCO World Heritage. The insciption was successfull in the year 2008.
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Территория природного заповедника была округлена в северо-восточной части заповедника. Была добавлена часть степной территории между озерами Тенгиз, Султанкелды и Кокай, образующей полуостров между системами озер Тенгиза и Коргалжын. Охраняемая территория водно-болотных угодий не менялась с 1976 г.
The site is proposed in the borders of the nature reserve with a 2 kilometre wide buffer zone. The reserves border is following the shoreline of the Tengiz-Korgalzhin Lake system. Only in the north-east in the area of the recently added steppe territory the border is drawn this way, that the peninsula between Tengiz and Korgalzhin Lake system is ro...
The spatial distribution of Tugai forests and associated Tugai vegetation, i.e. riparian forests and riparian vegetation, along the middle reaches of the Syr Darya and Tarim River were investigated through a maximum likelihood classification of Landsat ETM images. The river course changes of both rivers were traced back to at least mid of the last...
Saiga antelope (Saiga tatairca) has been used commercially during soviet times for the production of wild steppe meat. The animal is highly productive and can use dry steppe and semi-desert regions which are not suitable for house animals. (Photo: Lagrot, 2005) Univer University sity Greifswald Greifswald Abstract: An investigation in the southern...
The article gives a list of indigenous species aof trees and shrubs possible to be used to regenerate the degraded forests ecosystems in the bottom-land of the river Syr-Darya. In addition a list of non-autochtonous mostly fruit tree species is given possible to be introduced.
An investigation in the southern part of the “virgin land zone” in Central Kazakstan, fallow fields and the natural short grass steppe was carried out. Surveys on soil and vegetation was made. Also, the change of land use due to the recent financial crisis and transformation processes in the Republic of Kazakstan were observed. The investigations w...
In this study the distribution of benthic invertebrate fauna at a intertidal mudflat in the mid reaches of the Humber estuary was assessed. The sample site "Saltend" is about 3 km westwards from Hull (England's twelfth largest city). A single sampling in mid January was carried out and 6 sites along a transect downshore to the low water line sample...
Erfassung der Heuschreckenfauna im Naturschutzgebiet Mindelsee im September 1991. Es konnten 20 Arten auf den extensiv genutzten Mahdwiesen und Weiden festgestellt werden. Im ganzen Gebiet wurden grobe Schätzungen der Häufigkeit vorgenommen. Im sog. Westried wurde auf einer kleineren Fläche genauere Untersuchungen zur Verbreitung und Häufigkeit gem...
Häufige Überschwemmungen von Häusern und Wiesen führten Ende des vergangenen Jahrhunderts zu ersten Plänen und kleineren Arbeiten zur Begradigung des Flußlaufes der Würm. Intensiviert wurden diese Arbeiten in den Phasen ab Winter 1932/33 und Januar 1936, denen die Autoren ein krasses Mißverhältnis zwischen Aufwand und Ertrag attestieren. Während hi...
