Tyup Game Reserve

Tyup Game Reserve is a protected area in Tup District of Issyk Kul Province of Kyrgyzstan. It was established in 1976 in a basin of Tyup River to protect roe deer, boar, and Cervus elaphus. The reserve occupies 15,000 hectares.

Tyup Game Reserve
IUCN category IV (habitat/species management area)
Location Kyrgyzstan
Nearest cityKarakol
Area15,000 hectares
Established1976

Fauna

Mountain meadows and rock outcrops are inhabited by Central Asiatic frog, European green toad, Dione rat snake, Asymblepharus alaicus, Gloydius, narrow-skulled vole, silver mountain vole, shrew, chukar partridge, Daurian partridge, common quail, rock pigeon, etc. [1]

References

  1. Иссык-Куль. Нарын:Энциклопедия [Encyclopedia of Issyk-Kul and Naryn Oblasts] (in Russian). Frunze: Chief Editorial Board of Kyrgyz Soviet Encyclopedia. 1994. p. 512. ISBN 5897500096.


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