Environmental Management Plan for Rehabilitation of The Aral Basin

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This is a report on basic data collection for preparing an environmental management plan to recover the environment in the Aral Sea Basin in Central Asia. This preparatory work covers 1) land resources assessment and 2) a natural resources assessment through analysis of the satellite data and a field survey. Through this preparatory work it is observed that there are several environmental protectional activities being carried out in the Aral Sea region. One remarkable program among them is the construction of a dike between the Small Aral and the Large Aral aiming at the prevention of the environmental degradation of the Small Aral and its surrounding delta areas. Now we believe that an environmental management plan should be worked out urgently on the basis of the full understanding on the present situation of the Aral Sea region.