Nature

Kyrgyz Republic – is unique place of all kinds of animals and plants concentrating in Central Asia. Among plants and animals there are many valuable, rare and endemic kinds.

Flora:  Variety of flora in Kyrgyzstan peculiar to high zone. Slopes, separating by the level of humidity, therefore provide opportunities to grow for different types of plants.
In north slopes spread heaths, meadow – heaths, meadows, bushes and forests. In south slopes, because of dry climate absent forest zones and alpine meadows; here prevail half-deserts and deserts.
Flora of Kyrgyzstan counts more than 4500 kinds of higher plants. About 1600 kinds possess economic and practical value, including feeding – 450 kinds, nectarous – 300 kinds, ethereal – 62 kinds, foody – 50 kinds.
Found 200 kinds of medicinal plants: Thalictrum, karakol aconite, big elecampane, motherwort turkestanian, thermopsis, Hypericum perforatum, Tussilago farfara, Origanum majorana, sea-buckthorn, horsetail ephedra, cheremic Lobel, and others. As unique emergence in south of Kyrgyzstan we may say nuts fruit forests. Here grows Greece nuts, Sivers apple-tree,  sogdian alycha, pear, Korjin pear, Tian-Shian cherry, barberry, almond, pistachio, hawthorn djungarian and turkestanian and other.

More interesting plants of Kyrgyz Republic:
Craig Tulip (Tulipa greigii Regel)
Kaufman Tulip (Tulipa kaufmanniana Regel)
Kolpakov Tulip (Tulipa kolpakowskiana Regel)
Edelweiss (Leontopodium ochroleucum Beauverd)
Fir tree (Shrenk fir) (P. shrenkiana Fisch. Et Mey)
Semenov abies (Abies Semenovii)
Archa (I. Turkestanica Kom.)

Fauna: the Fauna is various enough and non-uniform by origin. The basis of fauna of region is made with the kinds typical for the central-Asian and Mediterranean regions. Here it is possible to find more than 500 kinds spinal, including 83 kinds of mammals, 368 kinds of birds, 28 kinds of reptiles, 3 kinds of amphibians, 75 kinds of fishes, 3000 kinds of insects. At height of 3400-3800 m meet a grey marmot, Ochotonidae, silvery Microtus. In summer on the Alpine meadows there is a brown bear, are concentrated the most part of a livestock arkhar, it is a lot of marmots, hares and mountain goats. Wolves are found also. On 3800-4000 m from mammals there are no constant inhabitants, but occasionally there are grey marmots, and silvery Microtus. Above a snow line on rocky ledges (up to height of 4,4 km) nest some kinds of birds: Phoenicurus erythrogaster and Alpine Fringilla. There are many other birds: the mountain goose, Tadorna ferruginea, Tetraogallus, the rocky pigeon, chough, the Alpine daw, Tichodroma muraria, greater lentil and a deserted bullfinch. At height about 4500 m there are mountain goats, from predators - a snow leopard. Rare kinds of animals such as arkhar, the bison, goat, Capreolus capreolus, a red deer, a bear, the deer, a lynx, a snow leopard, are brought in the Red book.