About the Aral Sea region
The Aral fleet used to furrow the sea and river ports from Termez to Aralsk. People used to feed wild pheasants in their hen-coops. Couples of tame swans spend winters on numerous lakes of the Aral Se region, wite gulls accompanied white steamboats in the sea. Beautiful goitered gazelles lived in the Kyzylkums, swift-footed saigas galloped across the Usturt.
But behind this placatory scenery indistinctly appeared the decline of a civilization when the Aral Sea began suffering of the human intervention. The sea has been decreasing since 1950-s influencing on the climate. Winters become more and more severe, summers – hotter and more arid. From the naked bottom of the sea called Aralkum the salty storms started to rage brining tons of poisoned dust to the green kands of the Central Asia. The first victims to suffer from the Aral masn-cuased disaster were not only the beautiful flora but the valuable fauna. Sturgeons are extinct, musk-rat and nutria farms are closed, most birds are registered in the Red Book.
Urga village, Uchsay and Muynak sea port have need erased from the geographic map. People started to move away. Population of Muynak region almost decreased almost twice.
Newborns pushed away the mothers’ breast rejecting improper milk of their mothers. Children and maternal death left beyond all conceivable norms of survival.
High unemployment in the region urged to create new jobs. With this aim several textile enterprises have been launched, foreign direct investments were attracted for constructing the Kyngrad soda plant and developing oil and gas fields in Usturt and Aralkum.
During the last several years almost all urban and rural healthcare facilities were provided with modern equipment and medical supplies. New colleges and academic lyceums are being lunched in various settlements of the region.
All across the world human kindness and mercy support the people facing ecological and social disasters caused. The situation in Aral us aggravated by ðåó fact that the gene pool of a whole nation of the Aral Sea region is disappearing.
