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Asia > Tajikistan > Environment

TAJIKISTANI ENVIRONMENT STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Areas under protection 19 [91st of 146]
Carbon efficiency 2.33 CO2 emissions/$ GDP [30th of 141]
CO2 Emissions 4,455.1 [106th of 178]
Current issues
inadequate sanitation facilities; increasing levels of soil salinity; industrial pollution; excessive pesticides
Ecological footprint 0.9 [122nd of 141]
Endangered species protection 0% [136th of 141]
Forest area > % of land area 2.93 % of land area Time series [173rd of 195]
Forest area > sq. km 4,100 km² Time series [139th of 195]
Known breeding bird species 210 [68th of 146]
Known mammal species 84 [99th of 145]
Marine fish catch 0 tons [136th of 141]
NOx emissions per populated area 0.16 thousand metric tons/squ [106th of 141]
Pollution > Carbon dioxide 1999 1,392 [106th of 199]
Snow Leopard > Estimated Population [5th of 11]
Snow Leopard > Habitat, population, and home range > Habitat Area in sq. km. 100,000 [4th of 11]
SO2 emissions per populated area 2,610 thousand metric tons/squ [24th of 141]
Water > Availability 5.56 thousand cubic metres [55th of 141]
Water > Dissolved oxygen concentration 5.78 mls/litre [120th of 141]
Water > Severe water stress 93.2 [8th of 140]
Wildness 25.63% [42nd of 141]

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SOURCES: World Resources Institute; Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center; World Resources Institute. 2003. Carbon Emissions from energy use and cement manufacturing, 1850 to 2000. Available on-line through the Climate Analysis Indicators Tool (CAIT) at Washington, DC: World Resources Institute; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), Living Planet Report 2000, Gland, Switzerland: 2000, and Redefining Progress.; Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, Report on National Reports Required Under Article VIII, Paragraph 7(a), of the Convention, Eleventh Meeting of the Conference of the Parties, Gigiri, Kenya, April 2000; World Development Indicators database; FAOSTAT on-line database; Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: Special Report on Emissions Scenarios, Data Version 1.1, B1Illustrative Marker Scenario with model IMAGE; Gregg Marland, Tom Boden, and Bob Andres, University of North Dakota, via net publication; Wikipedia: Snow Leopard; Wikipedia: Snow Leopard ; Center for Environmental Systems Research, University of Kassel, WaterGAP 2.1B, 2001 via ciesin.org; United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Global Environmental Monitoring System/Water Quality Monitoring System, with data for an additional 29 countries from Prescott-Allen,R. The Well being of Nations, Washington, DC: Island Press, 2001; Center for Environmental Systems Research, University of Kassel, WaterGap 2.1, 2000 via ciesin.org; Wild Areas Project (WAP), joint Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and CIESIN project to map the lastwild places on the earth's surface. via ciesin.org

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Tajikistan, Republic of Tajikistan, Jumhurii Tojikiston, Tojikiston

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