Zauresh Alimbetova

Zauresh Alimbetova

Ecologist Zauresh Alimbetova (born in 1966, Aralsk, Kazakhstan) headed up Kazakhstan's Barsakelmes Nature Reserve until February 2022 and is now deputy director of the International Fund to Save the Aral Sea. Alimbetova lives in Aralsk.

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Are we running out of water? (Issue III/2022)

“We can’t bring back the Aral Sea”

Kazakh ecologist Zauresh Alimbetova is fighting to save what was once the world's fourth largest lake. A nature reserve is now flourishing in the dried-up zone. A conversation.

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