Naurzum One - Nature Reserve
Naurzum one (Kostanai region). Set up in 1934 with the aim of protecting the Naurzum pine forest – one of the southernmost massifs of pine forests in Kazakhstan while the region’s lake harbours nesting places of water fowl. The territory is as large as 87,700 ha. The reserve is inhabited with 39 species of animals and 239 species of birds and there grow some 961 species of plants. Incidentally, white heron refers to one of the exceedingly rare and most interesting inhabitants of the reserve.
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